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ex-USSR Kinship Research

An evidence-first genealogy skill for AI agents such as Codex and Claude Code. It supports family-history research across the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire, covering church books, civil, military, deportation, repression and unindexed archive records across all 15 former Soviet republics.

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Overview

The skill resolves historical jurisdictions for each event, generates name-variant and transliteration matrices, prioritizes original records over catalogs, indexes, trees and forums, and maintains registers of people, artifacts, claims, relationships and searches. Its evidence protocol separates records from interpretation, assigns statuses such as hypothesis, corroborated, contradicted and unresolved, groups copies of the same record to prevent false corroboration, and keeps namesakes separate until distinguishing evidence appears. An audit script checks register integrity, citations and corroboration before reporting.

It also provides workflows for targeted FamilySearch research and World War I source searches, archive correspondence, multilingual source queries and final reports that document relationships, contradictions, failed searches and next steps. The repository includes Python scripts using the standard library, with Chromium-based browser support required for PDF generation. It is distributed under the MIT license and is maintained by Denis Shiryaev.

What ex-USSR Kinship Research is used for

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  • A genealogy skill for agents like Claude Code built to trace family history through complex records originating from the former USSR and the Russian Empire.

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