Recommendation Letters and References
On Feb.2010 the project of PBS Channel (USA) on air Faces of America, I have done researches for this project in Russia and I am in credits
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/faces-of-america-making-america-credits/
Steve Bistritzky, New York, USA
I have been doing family research for about 8 years
now and I have been duped by a few people promising me results in the former USSR so I know what you’re going through.
I have been working with Vitaly for about a year and all I can say is thank
G-D for him!!! He is very knowledgeable and very honest and because of him I
have unlocked secrets of my family’s past that I would never have know. He
is extremely honest and diligent in his work. I highly recommend him and in
fact I have referred him to someone else last week.
If you need research done in the former USSR Vitaly is your man!
Lukasz Cholodecki (Poland and Chicago, USA)
Resently I have got a letter of recomendation from Lukasz Cholodecki, the author and founder of Bialynia -Cholodecki’s family site cholodeccy.org (Poland – USA)
I first made contact with Vitaly in February of 2009 to help me resarch information about my family, the Bialynia-Cholodecki’s. Most of the information I was seeking was located in Ukraine, and for years I had very little luck in finding someone to help me look for the documentation I needed for my family research. In the very short span of time that I first contacted Vitaly he quickly travelled on location to Ukraine where he found and photographed important family documents in the Ukrainian archives, including family letters, photographs, deeds, legal documents and metrical records. Indeed the sheer volume of material that Vitaly has found for me has been unexpected and pleasantly overwhelming. Due to Vitaly’s quick, flexible and above all ambitious methods of research, I have significantly broadened my knowledge about my family’s history and roots.
I urge anyone who wants great results with a good deal of flexibility and open mindedness to contact Vitaly. If your research is connected with different countries of the former Sovier Union, Vitaly Semionoff is the helping hand that is so hard to find. I recommend Vitaly Semionoff to any genealogist who is researching in Russia and former USSR countries.
From French genealogist Ann Sophie Chevalier
My Research Showcase
My Research Showcase
One of the most interesting stories at the time of my investigating for ” Wait For Me” – Russian missing people TV show, was an amazing history of Alfrad and Aate Pitkanen that was the reason of making Canadian Film “Letters from Karelia”Taimi Pitkanen last saw her brother Aate (AH-tay) in a Leningrad railway station in 1931.
Taimi was returning to Canada from Moscow; Aate was headed for Soviet Karelia, on the border with Finland, where his skills in electricity and languages – both English and Finnish – were badly needed.
Aate never came back. Even when the dream went sour, Aate held on, writing home until, in 1941, Hitler attacked the USSR. After that, no one in Canada heard anything more of Aate Pitkanen.
Sixty years later, the discovery of his last letters – written but never mailed from a Finnish prisoner-of-war camp – reveals his fate and brings together Taimi and Alfred, the son Aate never met.
Visiting Taimi in Canada, Alfred Pitkanen learns the dramatic story of his father’s Canadian family and of “Karelia Fever,” the enthusiasm that gripped so many Finnish Canadians in the 1930s. Almost forgotten now, it lured thousands to a tragic fate in the Soviet Union.
Alfred follows his father’s journey from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to Karelia, from young communist pioneer to ski champion of the USSR to Soviet spy.
With him we learn Aate’s fate and the story of one of the great dreams of the twentieth century
More info is here
www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/
I am at the IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm2055512/
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http://genealogique.wordpress.com/