There are many websites on the Internet offering help in restoring family trees. You can visit them and understand how useful they can be in achieving your goals.
The editorial team of our portal invites you to start exploring your family tree and, as an option, searching for relatives on the portal: https://vgd.ru/m/
This is a genuine genealogical resource. The site brings together genealogists and archivists from the former USSR countries. The creators position the site’s forum as the best place to start independent research.
"Ask questions - you will definitely be helped, directed to the necessary archives or consulted by knowledgeable people," the site suggests to its visitors.
How does it work?
We explain...
Launching your surname is an intimate matter. Therefore, we launched the surname of the president of our country.
It returned - 49 pages...
And here is one of the search queries:
"I am looking for any information about ancestors with the surnames: Rinkevich, Rynkevich, Rynkevіch, Rynkiewicz, in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland (noble, gentry, burgher, peasant classes). I would be grateful for any information. I am interested in everything, especially information about their places of residence and moves from Lithuania and Poland to Belarus (Mogilev Province). Period: from ...... to 1920."
And after a while, one of the responses, dated July 11, 2007, from a resident of the Yaroslavl region:
"So far, I don’t know much about the origin of the surname Rinkevich. My name is Dmitry Iosifovich. I currently live in Yaroslavl. My father Iosif was born in 1942 in Belarus. He was registered in the village of Mikolayuntsy in the Brest region or something like that. My grandfather Peter RINKEVICH was a partisan during the war somewhere in that area. After the war, he took the family to Latvia. There are many of our relatives there now, but the connection is somehow not very maintained. About 5 years ago, I learned that the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Defense of Latvia is Edgar RINKEVICH. Funny. Maybe he is a relative. If there are any RINKEVICHi - write to my email. I think it would be interesting to communicate with namesakes. P.S. One advantage of our surname still exists. Neither in kindergarten, nor in school, nor in university did anyone ever come up with a nickname for me. So I came up with one myself. From the first letter of my name and four letters of my surname."
And the continuation:
"It seems that if humanity descended from Adam and Eve - then all people are brothers and sisters. I do not want to believe that the ancestors of people are scratching, bare-bottomed primates. And people with the same surname, especially such a rare one as ours, are even closer in kinship spirit. I think I won’t find relatives in this forum. Since my second grandfather, Peter's brother, was named Yuzek at birth. Moreover, they are Catholics. From which I conclude that our roots are in Poland. However, I am already glad. Because until now, I have not even corresponded with namesakes. In our city, judging by the phone directory, the RINKEVICHi family is the only one. However, there are about ten Rynkevichs. I suspect that most of them are related to the Rynkevich dynasty working at the motor plant. By the way, what do you think of the versions of our surname's translation into Russian? My brother and I discussed it in our spare time and concluded that we prefer "rynoknik".
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