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.”
I’m taking a page from @PYMundGenealogy and microblogging a cool #genealogy find via @nycrecords’ NYC Historical Vital Records Project. This new site (thanks to @ReclaimTheRecs) provides FREE access to 13.3 million NYC birth, death & marriage records! a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov
So in one big gulp I found 50+ vital records from my Great-Grandma Bess’ Russian Jewish American family, last name Davis, original name something like Davinsky. I noticed an interesting pattern…