Research, reconstruction and documentary confirmation of events from the 17th to the 20th centuries in Russian Empirie and USSR, Eastern and Central Europe

Peter Rempel

Certified Archivist,

Business Owner

The strongest archivist-researcher according to the International Genealogical Center

 

 

"We knew next to nothing about our ancestors as our grandfather didn’t really talk about them and our dad couldn't give much information. We assumed that all documents had vanished during WWII. BUT! Peter was able to successfully restore the entire lineage from the end of the 18th century till the present day...."

"... Mr. Rempel conducted an investigation in many Russian archives and, like a detective, he was able to reconstruct the extraordinary and dramatic life path of my great-grandfather... He has also traced the life paths of my ancestors over 400 years, starting from the 16th century, and found among other their grievance letters which tell about their household, disobedience to authorities, aspirations and worries..."

"Many documents were found, from which the real story emerged; it was possible to imagine how these people lived, what they dreamed of, what they knew and were able to do..."

"My request was done surprisingly quickly and for a very reasonable price. I was impressed by his professionalism, attention to detail and willingness to answer all my questions..."

Do you know who your ancestors were?

How did they live in the country of origin? What were they doing? What did they own? What nationality did they have?

 

The archives contain documents about almost every person who lived in the last 300 years. We just need to find the evidence!

 

Since 1990, I have been working on private commissions in the archives of the former Russian Empire, the USSR, Germany and other countries .

 

I can find information and documents relating to the lives of your ancestors or people you are interested in, confirm or refute family legends, and reveal the secrets of the past. I take on the most difficult search tasks — finding information using incomplete and indirect source data. In most cases — with a guarantee of a positive result.

 

Diploma of higher education in the historical and archival field. Vast experience and highest professionalism.

 

Transparency at work.

I work in archives without intermediaries.

Complete confidentiality.

 

Highest
professionalism

Amazing
discoveries

Guaranteed
results

Success
since 1990

Practice area

Lost Records, Saved Stories

Searching for information and documents in archives is the main direction of my work. I undertake the most complex research in state, departmental and special archives of many countries...

No initial data

“We don’t know anything”, “It was a forbidden topic”, “Nobody remembered about them”, “They were afraid to talk”, “Those who remembered died”, “All documents were lost”, “I don’t know where they came from”...

Missing

Almost every family had “lost people” - missing people, disappeared in prisons and camps, died under occupation, disappeared in combat. There were people whose memory was deliberately erased from the family...

Historical criminology

It is almost impossible to find a family whose history does not include murders or suicides, robberies, violence, forgeries, as well as arrests, trials, prisons and hard labor...

Workflow

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Рrices

Consultation and evaluation of search prospects - for free... Read more

Operating procedure

I make the entire work process as transparent and safe as possible for the customer... Read more

Guarantees

Search work is paid only if there is a positive result... Read more

Archival Journeys

I enjoy flying eastward. The night on the way passes quickly, and after several flights over Siberia, you begin to recognize landmarks without needing a map. One of my projects in Transbaikalia combined archival work with field research, which is always fascinating. The study focused on the Cossacks of the Barguzinsky settlement in the 17th-18th centuries and a convict exiled to the Nerchinsk mines at the end of the 18th century, who was later transferred for sustenance ("na prokorm") to the Selenginsky district in the early 19th century.

Preliminary work in the Moscow Archive of Ancient Acts, and in the archives of Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, and Chita provided a wealth of data that needed to be "tied" to the landscape. However, in the 1820s, the Irkutsk archive burned down, leaving only later documents and the records of the spiritual consistory. Despite this, it is always rewarding to work with diverse sources, cross-referencing and correlating information from various documents, collections, and archives.

This project followed the same principle. In Irkutsk, we worked with consistory documents; in Moscow, with the records of Siberian administrative offices from Irkutsk, Ilimsk, Selenginsk, and Barguzin, as well as decrees from the Siberian Office, Robbery Office, Investigative Office, and others, the Moscow Provincial Office, and Moscow Senate Departments. In Ulan-Ude, we accessed the Cossack Administration collections, while in Chita, the records of the Nerchinsk Mining Administration and many other sources proved invaluable.

Gradually, the puzzle began to come together. Field trips with Alexander Poselyanin confirmed and expanded the results of the archival searches. On some trips, I brought along a large-format film camera. I can’t quite explain why analog photography holds such a strong allure, but I am captivated by film images and prints made on silver-based photographic paper. See more

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