If you had ancestors who lived anywhere in Europe, here's a resource that might help you find info--including photos and genealogical info. I found cases with photos for relatives who were later killed in the Holocaust! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/feli...

There's a tool that helped me find some genealogical records that haven't even been indexed. Here's some of what I found, some searching caveats, and how you can hopefully find new-to-you records as well! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fami...

Are you researching ancestors who lived in what's now Ukraine? There may be records scanned and online, just waiting for you to find them. Here's info abt a new site that may help you locate scanned and online records: #ancestry #genealogy #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/09/ukra...

There are 2 new searchable collections available w/significant amounts of info on those who survived the Holocaust--often including names of family members. Info and tips to navigate here: #ancestry #familyhistory #genealogy larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

Researching 1926 Poland (parts of modern-day Ukraine and Lithuania, modern-day Poland and bits of what was Russian Empire, Galicia, Czechoslovakia, East Prussia among others)? Great resource I’ve mentioned b4, now more searchable! #genealogy #ancestry larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/07/poli...

Don't get too attached to how a surname--or given name--was spelled, or you may miss docs that reference actual family members. Spelling of names wasn't important to our ancestors. Two copies of the same record demonstrate this: #genealogy #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/06/spel...

Tonight starts Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are the names of the 1023 relatives I have traced so far who were murdered in the #Holocaust. Remember them. #YomHashoah #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/04/yom-...

If your family was from anywhere within the Russian Empire, Galicia, Romania or even the Ottoman Empire, you may have had relatives who ended up in Odesa. Here’s how to find those potential relatives & know if they might be related to you: #genealogy larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/04/mayb...

If your family lived in what became the #USSR, they/their family members were likely impacted, may have been arrested &/or executed. A site is consolidating sites w/“repressed" individuals. I found photos, court docs, more for my relatives #genealogy larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/03/sovi...

I've just discovered that my dad has a half 2nd cousin, a Holocaust survivor who thought she had no Diamond/Diment cousins alive. Here's how I reconnected her to many cousins--and share a photo of the father she can barely remember: larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-se... #genealogy #ancestry

Eastern European newspapers can help flesh out the lives of your relatives. Here's site I used and some of what I found on my own family. With newspapers in Russian, Yiddish, Polish and more, this is a great resource. larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/02/east...

Have family from Chernigov Guberniya? Check out this record set from AlexKrakovsky. I found my family in 1822 list-here are some things I learned. I still need help w/names, so if you read bad Russian handwriting, help!#genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/01/lefa...

I was a beta tester for @reclaimtherecords.org’s awesome new BIRLS service. If you have relatives who served in the US #military & lived in the 20th century, check it out! Here's some of what I got so far. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...

Looks like @reclaimtherecords.org had to fight to reclaim their name. Follow them on their actual account to see how they score records for us all!

Have you thought about doing town-focused searches to help you find records you might not find otherwise? Here’s how that could work and what I was able to find using this technique. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/01/town...

Relatives not US citizens in 1940 (or some who were but weren't sure themselves), you need to check out AR-2s, newly available from NARA. You may get maiden names, arrival info, signatures+more. And you get them quickly! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/08/alie...

Hello, world. Where be the genealogists? #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory