Discovery stories
Whom they found in archival files, and where — told by the researchers themselves. Every story is real and published with the author's consent.
Where Karpo Kushnir came from
The Kushnir line had been traced back to 1818, and there the trail went cold. The surname is common, so Nyshporka searched not for it but for the whole family — by the grandchildren's rare first names and the make-up of the household — and took it half a century further back, to Dzyhivka in the 1780s: a first wife, children from the first marriage, the father's name.
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Yaropovychi: a village history gathered from 111 824 pages
A person restoring a manor house in Yaropovychi came to research the history of their village. Nyshporka read all 146 Kyiv court books for 1750–1796 — 111 824 pages without an index — and brought 676 mentions together in one report: owners, the church, people by name, estate inventories, a timeline.
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An act no index knew about
Later odnodvortsy hinted at the family's noble status, but there was neither a family file nor a line in the alphabetical indexes. Nyshporka read around 120 files of the Podolia Noble Assembly and, on page 1192 of one of them, found an act of 1802: the assembly resolved to enter the family in the nobility register.
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