Private Museum “Family Archive”

Oksana Vladimirovna Korneva has been working as a private genealogist for more than 20 years. She is always busy analyzing family archives and studying documents. She also hosts educational programs on genealogy, showing family history documents. At first, most of the documents were just gifts from their owners who wanted to help her with her work. Later, she started to collect them herself. Currently, there are more than 500 exhibits at the museum.

The museum hosts exhibitions (the last one was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the civil registry offices), displays documents online for educational programs on genealogy, and is working on an online museum.

The collection contains original copies of civil registration records. There are pre-revolutionary documents including extracts from civil registers for births, marriages, death and divorce certificates, pre-marital and marital searches, etc., as well as Soviet period documents (up to 1945), including civil registration records and certificates.