Method
What to do when parish registers did not survive
A missing parish book is not the end of research. How to follow ancestral traces through lists, land, courts, military files and the family circle.
Heritavia
Notes
Notes from practice: archives, family legends, and what documents can verify.
Sources
Form No. 1: what genealogical treasure a Soviet passport questionnaire can hide
A USSR passport application as a bridge to parents, birthplace, spouse and the next document in archival research.
Path
From Adaria’s land map to an agency
How a Polesie family relic, independent research from the 2010s, and regional communities became Heritavia.
Sample
Living report: Polesie line
A public anonymised sample: nest map, ancestor horizon, chronology, and research log.