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#Genealogy update! A thread on how I depend on the kindness of strangers.

Michael kindly commented on my #Korsun rebbe thread and led me to the incredible work of #AlexKrakovsky, who digitized Ukrainian Jewish records even as Russia invaded: m.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=47…
I owe my rudimentary Russian alphabet skills to my ol’ bestie @_atricapillus, who I shocked/amused once by singing the Russky alphabet to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”

Any hope of reading Tsarist era handwriting is thanks to this Cyrillic cursive chart: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russ…
And to my haters who say it can’t be done, here’s the Russian Alphabet sung to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in slightly minor mode and in appropriate bass:
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