A step-by-step plan for a country and period: which records exist, guides, sources in order
Sources by country/region (`europe`, `latin_america`, `russian_empire`…), years and record kind
One source: coverage, access, how to search
Which archives now hold the records of a historical province (Russian Empire, Poland, Galicia, Bukovina, East Prussia, the Baltics, the Caucasus)
Ready search URLs for a name and its variants
Live search: Internet Archive full text, Chronicling America, WikiTree, Open Archives, Open List
Wikidata: what a village belonged to over the years, coordinates, Wikipedia article
Spelling, old orthography, gendered forms, transliterations, Daitch–Mokotoff codes, given-name equivalents (incl. Yiddish and Hebrew), patronymics
"около 1899", "9 de octubre de 1899" → `ABT 1899`, `9 OCT 1899
Julian ↔ Gregorian, Hebrew, French Republican
«на Покров», «после Петрова поста», Easter, Wielkanoc… → the date in a given year
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