Heritage AIFree, no registration
A request to a registry office or an archive about an ancestor
What to state about an ancestor so that the archive has something to search by. The Russian page is a blank sheet to print and fill in by hand; here is the same list as text. We send nothing and save nothing.
The product is currently available in Russian for families in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
What a genealogy request states
| Field | What to write |
|---|---|
| To | The name and address of the registry office (ZAGS) or archive, from the official site of the body |
| From | Your surname, first name, patronymic, postal address, phone or email for the reply |
| What I ask you to find | One precise question, for example a birth record or a marriage record |
| About whom | Surname, first name and patronymic of the ancestor and spelling variants, including the maiden name |
| When | The year or period of the event, at least approximately |
| Where | Village, volost, district, province as they were called then; the modern name |
| What is already known | The supposed parish, fond or file, if you know it; what you have already checked |
| How I am related | The degree of kinship and which documents of kinship I attach, if the body requires them |
| The reply I need | An archive certificate, a copy of a document or a search of a specific file |
| Attachments | Copies of documents of kinship, a passport, as the body requires |
We are not an intermediary and do not pass requests to a registry office or an archive. Check the requirements for a request, the list of kinship documents, the deadlines and the fee on the official site of the body you write to.
One precise question per request
Keep the reply next to the person in your family tree.
Sources: Method based on the open project ex-ussr-kinship-research, (c) 2026 Denis Shiryaev, MIT licence