I'm looking for descendants of my grandmother's family in Moldova.Her surname in Russian was НЕСАТЫЙ

Livia Marina50

I'm looking for descendants of my grandmother's family in Moldova. Her surname in Russian was НЕСАТЫЙ. She was from Chisinau (formerly called Kishinev). She was born in 1905. I know there were Holocaust survivors living in postwar Chisinau because I have a letter sent from there in 1967, and I found a photograph in the web of a grave with that surname in the Chisinau cemetery of someone who died in 1978 named Itzik Leibovich (the headstone says ИЦИК ЛЕИБОВИЧ НЕСАТЫЙ).

According to what's written on the tombstone, he had children and grandchildren. They could be my relatives. The problem is that after the fall of the USSR, the official language of Moldova changed from Russian to Romanian, and I don't know how the surname is spelled there now.

betsy123

@Livia Marina50. You could start by exploring the FamilySearch research wiki. The wiki is located under the Search tab. Here is one to get you started……….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

MazyPutnam

@Livia Marina50 This link is a great starting point for learning the essentials of researching families from Russia. It walks you through how to identify your ancestral town using a gazetteer, understand how jurisdictions changed over time, and discover which archives and websites hold the records you’ll need for your search.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/russia

You also could join the Russian Empire Research group where there are community members familiar in Russian research.