1304Surname historySurname origins
Александр Захарьевич Зерно recorded
The sheet's earliest surname-history entry, part of the unproven pre-Tokmakov lineage copied from published sources. Shown as surname history, not proven ancestry.
1304 — today
Key events transcribed from the original hand-drawn sheet and the merged branch research. Approximate dates are marked as circa; early surname history is shown as context, not proven ancestry.
The sheet's earliest surname-history entry, part of the unproven pre-Tokmakov lineage copied from published sources. Shown as surname history, not proven ancestry.
The separate early surname-history branch beginning in 1476. It sits beside the family tree and is explicitly labelled as not proven ancestry.
An early name in the surname-history chain recorded on the sheet, citing Veselovsky's Onomasticon.
The earliest recorded bearer of the name Tokmak, from which the Tokmakov surname is traditionally derived.
A later surname-history entry on the sheet, closing the pre-Transbaikal section of the record.
Nikita heads the documented central trunk of the Transbaikal family on the hand-drawn sheet, the root band of the modern tree.
Alexey Andreevich's branch expands from the founding trunk — one of the deep Transbaikal lines reconstructed from the handwritten chart.
Konstantin Andreevich's branch, another deep line of the founding trunk expanded in the maximum chart merge.
The Stepan branch and central trunk section of the sheet records the principal descending line of the family in Transbaikal.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1834–1895. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая верхняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
The Vasiliy branch — the largest section of the handwritten sheet, with hundreds of descendants transcribed into the digital tree.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1849–1921. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая верхняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
The Dmitriy branch section of the sheet, a major Transbaikal line with its own multi-generation descent.
The Pyotr branch, one of the six founding-trunk lines shown in the root band of the tree.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1861–1901. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая верхняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1864–1935. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая верхняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
The Karp branch completes the six founding-trunk lines of the documented Transbaikal family.
The documented Katherine (Northern Territory, Australia) Tokmakoff branch, merged as its own line — no speculative link to the Transbaikal tree is claimed.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1941–1981. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1973. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1974. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1978. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1978. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
The single-page hand-drawn 'Родословная Токмаковых' — the original paper source this archive digitises — was compiled by Nikolay Gavrilovich Tokmakov.
Written on the original hand-drawn sheet with the year 1984. Sheet note: группа на схеме: правая нижняя часть. Shown on the family tree in the same branch.
Alexander Tokmakov is born in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, Russia — the highlighted modern line of the family.
Alexander's family lives in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1996 to 2001 — the first step of the modern migration.
Alexander settles in Brisbane, where the Tokmakov Family Network project brings together relatives from around the world.
The original sheet is scanned, transcribed (266 names) and rebuilt as an interactive tree, with profiles, sources and a family feed.
Explore the names behind these events on the sheet names page or the original paper tree.