Yasha Bykhovsky

About Me

Profesional Genealogist:

Specialization in Jewish & Eastern European genealogy. Extensive experience in the construction of trees, document preservation, photo preservation/digitization, physical archiving. Fluent in Russian and English. Can read Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Carpathian, Polish, Slovak/Slovenian Cyrillic.

Specialization in immigrant genealogy.

One of the best in the US for:

• USSR genealogy during WWI & WWII

• Russian Political Attacks

• Jews in China

Also experience in the ancestry of:

• African-American Origin

• Irish/English Origin (Both Settlers and Modern Immigrants)

• South American Origin

• French Canadian/French

• German/Netherlandish Origin

• Greek/Hellenic Origin

• Spanish/Iberian

• Italian/Southern European Origin

• Australian Origin

• Other Origin

Trained in the use of the big three: Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch

And Special Interest Tools like JewishGen, JRI-Poland, LitvakSIG, ROM-SIG, J-Roots, VGD, JCR-UK, MacFamilyTree 9.2

and DNA Services like 23andMe, MyHeritageDNA, AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, G25, Admixture

Experience with Archives:

ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Archives, Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, Central State Archive of Ukraine, Central State Archive of Belarus, General Archive of Moscow Oblast (Russia), Central State Archive of Russia, Archive of Social-Political History (Russia), Archive of the Department of Defense (Russia). Warsaw Central Archive (Poland), Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas (Lithuania)

Notable Achievements:

• 700-year old Sephardic Rabbi Tree to Amsterdam and Greece

• Connecting Descendants of Pogrom Escapee to the Old Country

• Finding Arrest Documents for Victim of 1937 Russian Political Genocide