UPDATE – RootsWeb sites (owned by Ancestry.com) are currently unavailable while they resolve some security issues. If and when the sites are restored, we’ll make the links live, until then, we’ve included the links in parentheses.

RootsWeb hosts the free Russia GenWeb Project (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruswgw/) from user-submitted transcriptions, indexes, and record compilations.

The Russia GenWeb Project (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruswgw/) has

• mailing lists (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruswgw/lists.html)

• active message boards (http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.russia.general/mb.ashx)

• Russian genealogy record links (http://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/countries/topics/russia/)

• All Russian Family Tree search for your Russian surname here

• Russian Life  links

• Books We Own: Russia (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bwo/russia.html)

• Russia Surname Navigator

• FamilySearch Russia

• Ellis Island

• Introduction to Russian Genealogy

• Germans from Russia Heritage

• Hungary to Russia between 1794 and 1804

• List of Jewish Refugees who died in Sweden in 1945-1946

RootsWeb also hosts Free Russia Genealogy Records Online and the site From Russia to China and Beyond.