Resources
A library for the next contributor
The archives, guides, and methods behind this family history — gathered so that whoever picks up the thread next has a running start.
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Archives we rely on
- Portale AntenatiItaly’s digitized civil registers (Stato Civile) and, for some provinces, military matricola registers — the backbone of the Belli research.
- Arolsen ArchivesThe world’s largest archive on Nazi persecution — DP (CM/1) files, tracing cases, and camp records behind the Scheremet story.
- FamilySearchFree indexes and images: U.S. censuses, draft cards, and the FamilySearch copies of the Roma/Frosinone civil registers.
- Statue of Liberty–Ellis IslandPassenger manifests — where “Havaskoz” on Fedur’s 1910 record pinned the Gondorcsin family to its village.
- Find A GraveBurials and dates for the Minnesota generations (St. Anthony Cemetery; Fort Snelling National Cemetery).
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Italian records (Belli · Giarrocchi)
- Archivio di Stato di FrosinoneHolds the civil registers of Monte San Giovanni Campano and the Distretto militare di Frosinone ruoli matricolari (classes 1877–1914).
- Archivio di Stato di RomaCivil registration for Rome (1863–1930) — Angelo Belli’s 1901 death act and the Paolessi births.
- Antenati — how to read matricola/levaGuide to Italian military conscription records, the next records to pull for Giuseppe and Amedeo.
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Ukrainian & displaced-persons records (Scheremet)
- Arolsen — how to searchReading CM/1 DP files and ITS tracing cases; how namesakes are ruled out by internal details.
- USCIS Genealogy ProgramA-Files and C-Files for immigrants who naturalized after 1906 — the route to Wasyl & Eva’s U.S. paperwork.
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Rusyn & Hungarian roots (Gondorchin)
- Carpatho-Rusyn SocietyContext and records guidance for Carpatho-Rusyn families from Subcarpathia (Ung County / Zakarpattia).
- FamilySearch — Hungary/ZakarpattiaParish-register guidance for Lyuta / Havasköz, where George Gondorchin’s baptism should live.
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Method & this project’s research
- The research log (Google Drive)Every finding, correction, and namesake ruled out is written up in the project’s numbered research docs.
- A note on confidenceDocumented, partly documented, family memory, or not-yet-found — each page states which, and never dresses a guess as a fact.