Researching Russian Roots - Advice on genealogical research in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, with links and addresses.
Russia GenWeb - Russian genealogical information - including St. Petersburg Archives, surname helper and mailing list.
Title Nobility of Russia - Register of the Titled Families and Persons of the Russian Empire. Translated into English, Russian, and Polish.
National Archives of Canada - LI-RA-MA Collection - Consists of documents created by the Imperial Russian Consular offices in Canada during the period 1898 to 1922. Site gives a brief description of the collection, along with details of who can borrow the microfilm, and how they should apply to do so.
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Genealogy There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Genealogy
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genealogy Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Genealogy
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Genealogy The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Genealogy
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Genealogy I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Genealogy
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Genealogy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Genealogy
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Genealogy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Genealogy
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Genealogy "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Genealogy
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Genealogy Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Genealogy
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Genealogy There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Genealogy
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genealogy A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Genealogy
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Genealogy
