It is advisable to start the search for a person's real place of birth not with a request to the archives, but with a conversation with relatives, since the information contained in official documents may not always correspond to reality. Especially if this person was born in a difficult time for the country and his father and mother could not take care of registering the child in time.
Instructions
Step 1
Contact this person's relatives if you know them or you know where they live, and ask them where he was born. When addressing such a question to people you do not know, be sure to introduce yourself and tell me why you needed such data. If you are a representative of a government agency, then you will most likely be given an answer to this question. If you are a private person, then the reason must be strong enough for you to be given an exhaustive answer.
Step 2
Continue your research by contacting the registry office archive, where, according to your assumptions, information about the place of birth of this person may be stored. Please note: any information related to birth, marriage / divorce and death is entered into the books of this institution, but it may not be on the certificates. So if you applied to the registry office, and you were told that they do not have such information, ask for an official written refusal, with which you can go to court. It is likely that the employees of this institution in this case will meet you halfway.
Step 3
Make inquiries to the district, regional and national archives, depending on what information you have about this person. So, if you know that he was called up for military service, make a request to the military enlistment office or the archives of the Ministry of Defense, and if he was imprisoned - to the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, GUIN, FSB (provided that the funds where this information can be stored are open).
Step 4
Refer to the site https://www.vgd.ru, which has a constantly updated database of residents of Russia. Select the name of the wanted person alphabetically and read the information about his likely compatriots. You can also ask the specialists who cooperate with this resource, a question you are interested in on the forum.
