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Tips for Tracing Russian Roots

By Diane Haddad

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This morning’s news had me excited about the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics this week in Sochi, Russia.

Sochi is in Western Russia, on the Black Sea. Western Russia, including areas that are now independent countries, was the source of significant immigration to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Tracing Russian roots isn’t easy, but it’s also less of an Olympian task than it used to be. These Russian genealogy tips are from our guide to tracing Russian roots in the January/February 2014 Family Tree Magazine (you can get just the Russian guide as a digital download from Family Tree Shop). Or if you’re also researching genealogy elsewhere in Europe, you might want the collection of guides in The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe.

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