Ex Ussr Kinship Research — AI skill for Claude Code

ex-USSR Kinship Research


**An evidence-first genealogy skill for AI agents (Codex, Claude Code and other Agent Skills runtimes).** It turns an agent into a careful family-history researcher for the former USSR, the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The agent reads church books and civil records, military, deportation and repression files, and unindexed archive scans. It keeps every find traceable, separates records from interpretation and says plainly what is proven and what is not.

The skill's instructions are written in Russian, but **the agent talks to you in your language**: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, German and so on. It quotes sources in their original spelling with a translation, and builds search queries in the languages of the records.

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What it does

• Case intake and scope. One research question, known facts, who may be alive, what is off-limits.
• Reproducible registers. Persons, artifacts, claims, relationships and a full search log (CSV), plus a final report template.
• Historical jurisdiction model. It resolves every event to the state, province, district, parish or civil registry as of the event date, not today's map.
• Name-variant matrices. Pre-reform Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, German and Yiddish forms, patronymics, maiden names and transliterations.
• Source strategy. Originals first, then official catalogs, indexes, published document collections, and only then trees and forums as leads.
• Evidence protocol. Claims get explainable statuses, not percentages: hypothesis, single-source, corroborated, strongly-corroborated, contradicted, unresolved. Copies and mirrors of one record share an independence_group, so they never count as independent proof.
• Identity resolution. Namesakes stay separate person_ids until distinguishing evidence appears: house number, parents, godparents, exact birth date or military unit.
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