Archive guides
Every country hid its records somewhere different. These are working guides to the archives, record types and access rules of one region each — written to be read once and used for years, not to fill a page.
Arabic lineage and nasab
How to read a chain of fathers, where tribal genealogy is reliable and where it is political, and which registers — Ottoman, colonial, modern civil — actually hold names.
Read the guide →Civil registration in Europe
Start dates country by country, what a civil act really contains, the closure periods that decide access, and the national portals where the scans already are.
Read the guide →Russian state archives
Metrical books, revision lists and ZAGS registers: which archive holds which years, how fond–opis–delo citations work, and what the 75-year rule closes to you.
Read the guide →Somewhere to put what you find
KORA keeps the people, dates, photographs and notes together, searches 20+ genealogy archives from a person's card, and works offline with no account.