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Service Search the archives, available at the Moscow Electronic School (MES), has been helping schoolchildren study their family history using documents from the capital's collections for a year now. Glavarkhiva.
"The 'Archive Search' service on the MES platform has become a popular tool for studying family history. It allows schoolchildren to find information about their ancestors and work with archival documents in digital format. Today, the service's database contains tens of millions of documents from archives across Russia, significantly expanding the search and analysis capabilities of historical information. Furthermore, modern technologies make working with archival materials more convenient and accessible for users," said the head of the Moscow Main Archives Department.
Study family history using documents from the Glavarkhiv
"Archive Search" allows schoolchildren to explore their family history using information from parish registers, census records, confession records, marriage searches, and other documents from the Glavarkhiv collection.
Over the year, the web version of the service has been updated shul.mos.ru More than seven thousand Muscovites have applied, and over 14 thousand people have applied through the "MESh Diary" mobile app. The document database is constantly being updated. Currently, it contains over 22 million materials from the archives of Moscow, the Astrakhan, Irkutsk, Orenburg regions, and other regions. "Archive Search" is available in the "About Me" section of the "Student Portfolio" service. MASH.
The ability to search for their ancestors is available not only to schoolchildren. City residents can also study history using the online service "My Family." http://tsgamos.ru/res_help/ Over 20 million users have already used the platform to search for information about their relatives. The portal offers nearly 14 million genealogical pages, including parish and house registers, census records, confession records, and other materials. The service's database is constantly expanding, with approximately 200,000 pages of digitized documents added monthly.
Family Secrets: Five Years of the Moscow Main Archives' Online Service "My Family"
In 2023, in addition to “My Family,” the Moscow Main Archives Department, together with Yandex, launched a platform Search the archivesArtificial intelligence trained on archival documents recognizes handwritten texts and significantly speeds up the information search process.
View the parish registers of lost Moscow churches
Last October, the platform's functionality expanded. For example, the "Archive Search" service added an interactive map of Moscow's churches. It allows Moscow residents to quickly find parish registers for a specific parish and period. Until 1918, birth, death, and marriage records were entered into these documents, so they remain one of the primary sources of information about previous generations.
The map shows not only existing churches but also lost ones in Moscow—for example, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Sapozhok. Users can open the site card and select the parish registers for the desired period. These documents can reveal, for example, the exact date of birth of a great-grandmother and great-grandfather, where they were married, and the names of their parents.
Online services significantly speed up the process of finding the necessary information, and neural networks help recognize complex handwriting, converting handwritten documents into digital format. Now, to learn your family history, you don't need to sign up for an archive reading room. Simply read the detailed information. instructions For online users, posted on the official website of the Main Archives of Moscow, to understand what data is needed to search for relatives.
Innovations in Preserving History: Moscow's Main Archives Turns 63"Archive Search" combines historical documents with a map of Moscow.
Moscow Electronic School— a joint project of the capital's Department of Education and Science And Department of Information Technology, created in 2016. This unified digital educational platform is available to Moscow teachers, students, and their parents. Among the main services of "MES" are a library of educational materials, an electronic diary and journal, "Moskvenok," "Student Portfolio," and "Olympiads."
The creation, development and operation of e-government infrastructure, including the provision of mass socially significant services, as well as other services in electronic form, corresponds to the objectives of the national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State" and the Moscow regional project "Digital Public Administration." More information about Russia's national projects and the capital's contribution can be found at special page.
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