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Map with churches of Moscow The "Archive Search" service, which helps collect data on ancestors, has been updated. It allows you to quickly find parish registers for a specific parish and period. Previously, this could only be done manually. Yandex used neural networks to accurately link several thousand digitized documents to churches and periods. The project was implemented jointly with the Moscow Main Archives Department.
"The 'Archive Search' update opens up entirely new opportunities for Muscovites and all users to learn more about their families and delve deeper into the city's history. Thanks to handwriting recognition technology and the integration of archival documents with a map of Moscow, you can not only search for the names of your ancestors, but also see where exactly they lived. This significantly simplifies genealogical research and makes it more visual. Users can open a parish card with a single click and select registers for the desired period. These documents reflect the lives of Muscovites over the past 250 years," said Yaroslav Onopenko, head of the Main Archives Department of Moscow.
Until 1918, all important events in people's lives—births, deaths, marriages—were recorded in special registers. One copy of such a register was kept in the parish church. Today, researchers can access the "Archive Search" service, which contains over 13 million pages of registers from Moscow churches. These documents were systematized using artificial intelligence. Neural networks analyzed their contents, categorized them by register, and assigned each document to a specific church and time period. A special map shows both surviving and lost churches of old Moscow.
The project's website also provides historical information about the capital's most significant churches. For example, about the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Sapozhok—the site of which is now occupied by Sapozhkovskaya Square, located between Mokhovaya and Manezhnaya Streets. It was here in 1801 that Count Nikolai Sheremetev secretly married his former serf actress Praskovia Zhemchugova, who appears in the birth certificate as "maiden Praskevia Ivanovna, daughter of Kovalevskaya."
"Archive Search" is a service from Yandex and Glavarkhiv that helps city residents quickly find information about their ancestors from the 17th to the 20th centuries. The portal also provides access to information about settlements and events from the same period. The service's database contains over 20 million pages of historical documents from the archives of Moscow, the Moscow region, Orenburg, Vologda, Irkutsk, Astrakhan, and other regions. Additionally, the service helps find information in the archives of diocesan newspapers, Sovetsky Sport, Vechernyaya Moskva, Senatskie Vedomosti, and other pre-revolutionary and Soviet newspapers.
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