ex-USSR Kinship Research
ex-USSR Kinship Research is a skill that helps AI agents trace family history in former Soviet records for people researching ancestors from the region.
What it is good for
- Finding ancestors in church books and civil records from the former USSR
- Tracking relatives through deportation, military, and repression files
- Keeping genealogy findings traceable to their original sources
- Writing family history reports with clear evidence for each claim
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Skill or plugin
- Tasks
- Works with
- Codex, Claude Code, FamilySearch, Python 3
Momentum
- Rank this week
- #40
- Best rank
- #40 week 44, 2026
- Stars gained last week
- +878
- GitHub stars
- 1,472
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Ranking history
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is ex-USSR Kinship Research free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use ex-USSR Kinship Research?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does ex-USSR Kinship Research work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Codex, Claude Code, FamilySearch, and Python 3.
- What is ex-USSR Kinship Research good for?
- Finding ancestors in church books and civil records from the former USSR, tracking relatives through deportation, military, and repression files, keeping genealogy findings traceable to their original sources, and writing family history reports with clear evidence for each claim.
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