About

Familik is a family-history project by Olga Blum — the pen name of Olga Koryakova, a family historian and writer.

I research families from the former Russian Empire and the USSR — Pskov and Kostroma villages, Latvian and Estonian manors, Leningrad in the blockade, emigrants who ended up in Chicago — and write about each search as a detective story: a mystery, a find, and a skill you can use in your own research.

I am the author of more than sixty articles on family history and of the book The Legend of the Merchant.

Familik is where the stories and the tools live together.