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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Russian, family historical documents, language skills

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

As a student of Family History Research with Russian language skills, I have become very interested in learning the process of research for the areas that have been controlled by either the Czars or the USSR. Thus, I decided to go on an internship to a Russian speaking country to compliment my studies in Imperial Russian and Soviet genealogical research. Although I am a novice or maybe especially since I am a novice I felt this would be very beneficial to my studies. My faculty mentor Thom Edlund and I developed a project that would enable me to further my understanding of Russian research in the Eastern European archival system while searching for documents and understanding yet untapped in the historical field. My project was to search for examples of old Czarist Russian travel documents. These would later be analyzed by Professor Edlund. He will determine their historical significance, based on the information that was or was not included in the documents, and use this information for future publication.

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