In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents – Volume II: Russian

by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman

Revised Edition: ISBN 978-0-9631579-9-7

Written by the authors of Following the Paper Trail and the Polish and Latin volumes of the In Their Words series, the book includes:

88 Russian-language documents and extracts from American and European sources, analyzed and translated. They include extracts from birth, death, and marriage records of various formats; gazetteer entries; revision lists; obituaries; population registers; military service records; passports and much more
Sections on Russian grammar, phonetics and spelling
Information on how to locate records in America and Europe
A chapter on gazetteers and how to use the, with ten (10) maps showing Russia’s changing borders and divisions. There are also Letter Writing Guides for Russian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian.
An 80-page vocabulary with over 3,700 entries featuring archaic terms and spellings most likely to be found in records but rarely included in modern dictionaries.
A 26- page list of over 700 Christian and Jewish given names with equivalents in English, Latin, Lithuanian and Polish.

This book is soft-cover, perfect bound, with 520 bindery pages, 8.5″ x 11″, weight 2 lb., 11 oz.