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Comes out as a sheet for the reading room — what to ask for, who holds it, and every link written out in full.
This is a region, not a town — the marker sits at its centre, not at a building. Records filed at this level are usually held for the whole region.
This place
Where to begin
You know your family came from Yambol. Here is the order I would work in, cheapest and easiest first — and what to do when that runs out.
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When you run out — and you will
Everything above is what this atlas knows. It is not everything there is. Nine places in ten on this map have never been surveyed by anybody, so a gap here is usually our silence rather than the record's absence.
Do this: write to the archive named in the era table for your year, even if we hold nothing for it. Then tell us what you found — a gap somebody has personally closed is the most useful thing a stranger can give this map.
Not yet mapped. The record regions cover Istria, the Kvarner, Carnia and Dalmatia so far, and Yambol is outside them. That is a gap in this map rather than a gap in the record — and the most useful thing anyone could fill in.
No volumes recorded here yet.
National sources for Bulgaria, unverified
From Wikidata, CC0 — the national archive and the national library where the country has one. Nobody here has opened these. The link answered when it was asked and that is the whole of what this map knows about them. They are listed because a country with no named source at all is the worse answer: 199 of the 237 countries here had nothing but the worldwide services, which cover everywhere and therefore say nothing about anywhere.
- ASAB, Varna ↗ national archive
- Archives State Agency ↗ national archive
- Blagoevgrad State Archives ↗ national archive
- Burgas State Archives ↗ national archive
- Central State Archives of Bulgaria ↗ national archive
- Dobrich State Archives ↗ national archive
The sources for Bulgaria
National and regional sources that cover this ground whether or not anybody has walked it here — which makes them the answer, not the consolation, for a place with no volumes recorded on it. A country-wide body is listed whatever the distance; a provincial archive is a claim over its own province, so those are the nearest ones. 9 more cover Bulgaria and are on the country page.
- Archives State Agency Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Archives State Agency — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - ASAB, Varna Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
ASAB, Varna — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Blagoevgrad State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Blagoevgrad State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Burgas State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Burgas State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Central State Archives of Bulgaria Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Central State Archives of Bulgaria — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Dobrich State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Dobrich State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Gabrovo State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Gabrovo State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Haskovo State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Haskovo State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Kardzhali State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Kardzhali State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Kyustendil State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Kyustendil State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Lovech State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Lovech State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Montana State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Montana State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Pazardzhik State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Pazardzhik State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Pleven State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Pleven State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Ruse State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Ruse State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Shumen State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Shumen State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Silistra State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Silistra State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Targovishte State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Targovishte State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Vidin State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Vidin State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Vratsa State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Vratsa State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical. - Yambol State Archives Nobody has walked this one yet Bulgaria
Yambol State Archives — national archive of Bulgaria. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.
Sources that cover everywhere
Not about Bulgaria in particular — these reach most of the world, which includes here. They are listed after the local sources because a body that holds this ground's own paper is a better first stop than one that holds a little of everywhere's. Worth knowing they exist all the same.
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account
Full-text search across millions of digitised books, including parish histories, nobiliaries and local monographs that name ordinary people. - Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account
The former International Tracing Service. Concentration camp, forced labour and displaced-persons records for some seventeen and a half million people, free and fully indexed. - BillionGraves Images, free, no account
GPS-tagged headstone photographs. Smaller than Find a Grave but its coordinates are per-stone, which Find a Grave's often are not. - Find a Grave Images, free, no account
Volunteer-photographed headstones and cemetery indexes, worldwide, with very uneven coverage. Owned by Ancestry but free to read. - WikiTree Images, free, no account
A free, single shared tree with an unusually strong sourcing culture. Not a record source. - Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Images, free, no account
Names and testimony pages for victims of the Shoah, free. - FamilySearch Images, free, account needed
The largest free collection of record images and indexes in the world. A free account is required, and a minority of images are restricted to Family History Centres and affiliate libraries. - Geni Images, free, account needed
One shared world tree. Useful for finding other researchers on the same line; not a record source, and its assertions are only as good as their citations. - JewishGen Images, free, account needed
The central Jewish genealogy resource — town-level KehilaLinks, burial and Holocaust databases, and revision lists for eastern Europe. - Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
Member-contributed trees and transcriptions, strongest in France. Much is free; a Premium tier gates some search and images. - Ancestry Images, behind a paywall
The largest commercial collection. Strong on the English-speaking world, censuses and immigration; weak on continental parish registers. - MyHeritage Images, behind a paywall
Commercial, with a large tree network and good European newspaper and directory coverage. Search is free; opening a record is not.
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