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Transcribed baptismal entries naming five children of the Vasiliy household with godparents. Two names were already on the sheet; three are new and appear in the tree as research entries pending a second source.
Olga's grandmother described crossing the Amur by ferry with a samovar wrapped in a quilt, and trading flour with the boatman. The story names two brothers who match the Karp line on the sheet, though their order is still being verified.
A damaged print restored by the family archive. The couple are recorded on the sheet in the Nikolai 1864 family; the marriage year comes from a church register entry transcribed separately.
A studio group kept in Viktor's father's album. The seated elders are believed to be of the Stepan household; the children standing behind were born between 1900 and 1910. Names on the back are partly legible and are being cross-checked against the sheet.
An embroidered linen cloth and a hand-copied recipe book, passed from mother to daughter across four generations. The stitches and fillings mark the family's Amur villages.
Six letters between brothers, one in Blagoveshchensk and one in Chita, mentioning harvests, a christening and the death of an uncle. Dates and place names from these letters anchored three rows on the original sheet.
A street scene kept by Sergei's grandmother, with the family house second from the left. The photograph helped confirm the household's address recorded in a 1950s residence list.
Three generations of the Tokmakoff line at a reunion barbecue. Irina's grandfather points out his mother in the front row — the link back to the documented Katherine settler.
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