THE FAMILY ARCHIVE
Names, faces and stories connecting the generations.
Family document archive 10 packets · PDF / ZIP50 people7 generations · 27 portraits
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FOLLOWING THE RECORDS
Sources that help us check memories and continue the family story. Matches and open questions are clearly marked.
Name, exact birth date and village match
The military dossier matches 15 March 1925 and Bichili. A personal award recommendation describes Yakov helping to move a vehicle carrying headquarters documents out of enemy fire on 22 July 1944. The Medal for Courage recommendation, order and award list entry are preserved. Family relationships still need civil records.
Name and exact birth date match
The dossier matches the birth date of 29 September 1922. Personal award recommendations describe a radio platoon commander in the 906th Separate Signals Battalion during the June 1944 fighting and on the Narew. The original Red Star order is dated 21 February 1945. The connection to the family profile remains under review.
Relationship confirmed by the family
The family confirmed that Ivan is Grigoriy Yakovlevich Soyka’s brother and that their parents are Yakov and Matrena. Partisan records use the surname Soyko, give his birth year as 1918 and mention Porechye and Pakhar in the Pukhovichi district. The relationships are based on family testimony: the archival scans reviewed do not name his parents. Copies of the 1926 household-head lists have been requested from NARB.
A source for the next research step
Belarus’s official catalogue describes a 1926 census list of household heads in Glukhoy Tok: NARB, fond 30, inventory 2-UD, file 6184, folios 1–1 verso. The family account places Pyotr Karpovich’s workplace near this village. The family’s presence on the list has not yet been checked.
PRESERVED RECORDS
Award recommendations, partisan records, archival indexes and biographical records in one collection with a table of contents. Open individual packets or download the complete archive.
Source attribution and verification status appear inside each packet. Original scans, index extracts and unresolved matches are clearly labelled.
Document scans
Order, award list entry and both sides of the personal recommendation.
Document scans
Five scans: the order, recommendation, award list entry and a case summary.
Document scans
The original order is dated 21 February 1945. Four scans are included.
Archive index
Three Omsk archive index entries. Parents and the full birth date are not given.
Archive inventory
Four inventory images locating the 1925 birth registers.
Catalogue description
Glukhoy Tok, Porechye and the Profintern factory: descriptions and exact archive references.
Document scans
Four archival scans. The family confirmed that Ivan is Grigoriy’s brother and the son of Yakov and Matrena. The scans do not name his parents.
Archive index
Saved metadata from two dossiers, with duplicate records and a date discrepancy noted.
Index · identity under review
Three records with matching full names and Vyatka province. Their connection to the ancestor is unproven.
Memorial index · identity confirmed by family
Nationality, sentence and rehabilitation from a public index. Identity confirmed by the family; the original case file has not yet been obtained.