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Edward A. Rueda
@MrEdwardRueda
Platform Editor for @NBCUAcademy. Ya tú sabe my Twitter only represents me. https://t.co/HXv0scTVwO
Mar 27, 2022 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
#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…
Mar 19, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
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…