> [ Note: this message was posted to a number of other newsgroups/lists. > I haven't seen any answer better than "use Google" yet, though, so > I'm passing it along to Methods for consideration. - Mod ] > > Recently when looking for my family in Russia I discovered people in > Habarovsk, who probably are my cousins. This is complicated so I > just tell that the ONLY thing to know it is to check if their > grandfather was brother of mt grandgrandfather - there is no > documents however and all I could do is to find if he was fighting > in 10th "Intergermanland's" hussars regiment, and "missed" at war > with Japan in 1904 year near Ussurisk. Man's surname was Rytel > (written also Ryttel or Ritter) BUT if he decided to use another > name in army (he was from Polish-Russian family) he could use name > van Kreiter after his mother or even perhaps Lavrov - after first > husband of his mother, the tzar's chamberlain. In regiment he was > officer and hide himself in faraway Russia near 1904 after a battle > (he was wounded and rescued by his Kossack's friend, then he changed > belief and name, and married Kossack's woman with 4 children - it's > all complicated. I know only that after marriage his name was Piotr > (Peter). It is important to know - if his name BEFORE was Alexander > then he is brother of my grandgrandfather. There is no documents so > the only clue is to find soldier named Alexander Rytel (or Kreiter > or Lavrov) among oficcers in 10th "intergermanland's" regiment of > hussars. > > Summarising - I need a list of soldiers who were enrolled to 10th > intergermandland's regiment of hussars. I do not live in Russia so > I cannot check in archives. Is it possible to find it anywhere > else? Please help me, I will be very thankful! > > regards! > Krystyna Jaroslawska > > PS This message I put on a few other genealogy groups to let it to > be find by more people. Please, do not delete it, thank you! > > Aida <[email protected]> Russian genealogy is often done by paying local researchers to work for you. So you better work hard at your day job and start saving up. Hugh W -- Beta blogger http://nanowrimo3.blogspot.com/ visiting my past http://hughw36-2.blogspot.com/ re-entry http://snaps4.blogspot.com/" photographs and walks old blogger http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG Hugh Watkins <[email protected]>