Research Like A Pro: Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, and Orthodox Resources for Eastern European Research
If you exhausted all Canadian/US sources and finally could figure out your ancestral location in Eastern Europe what is next? We will discuss how to start your research in Eastern Europe and what resources are available for your ancestral location depending on the religion. Main repositories for Jewish research in Poland, Ukraine, and Romania; main repositories for Lutherans in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and US databases; Catholic and Orthodox Resources in the Eastern European Archives. When is the right time to approach the local priest and community? How to deal with a change of border or name of the ancestral village itself?
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Alina Khuda
Alina Khuda has a BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) degrees in Social Studies and Politics, studied in the USA (sponsored by the US government).
She participated in GOI Peace Foundation and UNESCO projects from 2009.
Moreover, she has an extensive experience as a court expert, probate genealogist and a forensic genealogist from 2015. Established KGS (Khuda Genealogical Services) in 2016.
She is an expert criminal genealogist for USA courts and a course editor for the University of Genealogical Studies in Canada. With a sufficient experience in journalism Alina and her team provide search of unknown relatives and missing beneficiaries for estates in the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, UK, EU.
An expert for genealogical data in the Eastern Europe:
- Jewish Galician Records,
- Orthodox Christian,
- Old Believers,
- Greek Catholic,
- Roma Catholic,
- Lutheran,
- Mennonite records.
She did research for government, non-government organizations, attorneys, trustees, companies worldwide as well as numerous private clients. Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and Genealogical Organization «Nashi Predky» (NJ, USA)
