Digitizing Ukraine Records Before and During the War - Project Ukraine

[@AngelavengerL]

What you guys are doing is so important. Really stuck with me how you mentioned the library of Alexandria. Just imagining the amount of information and knowledge lost makes me want to cry.

[@kasiakondracki5171]

Thank you for doing this! 💙💛

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

Wishing the fundraiser much success!

[@vada7259]

Thank you for the interview, info, & update on the work of Mr. Krakovsky and Mr. Khromov in saving Ukrainian Archives & records

[@veronicaalweisscoachingllc4133]

My GG's were from the Lviv area. I hope some day to discover more about my ancestry here. Thank you for your amazing and important work!

[@justinemot2282]

Very interesting topic! And also, your and Alexander's jobs are very important not only now but for generations to come! Thank you!

[@evansalp3789]

Great video!!! I have family from Ukraine. Well not directly. They were immigrants from Czechia and migrated to Zhytomyr presumably to avoid conscription in Austria Hungary. They left for america from Ukraine in 1897

[@evere777x]

No idea why these videos from project ukraine have more dislikes than usual (visible with browser addon). Seems like Kremlin propaganda works in US. Great video. My grandmother was born near todays border with Ukraine in Poland, but she was of Rusin (this branch became Ukrainian) and Lemko descent.

[@lmboh8585]

Great video Jaret! I hope that Alex and his family continue to be safe and that he knows his work is being followed closely throughout the world. On to the donation sites :)

[@karleighs2293]

thanks for sharing! 💙💛💙💛

[@cefcat5733]

See 'faces of the forgotten' channel. 'They stole his brain.' Hope that someone can or has archived that area too. One woman returned to the Ukraine.

[@cathyd1013]

Any updates on Mr. Krakowsky?

[@Lagolop]

Hi Jarrod, I know you are Jewish so I'd like to ask you for any advise you might have specific to finding Jewish Ukrainian ancestry. Some of the records we have only go back into the 1800 but they are indicating Moldova and also Suceava county in Romania. However I have met somebody that told me everyone with my last name (which is relatively uncommon) originally came from Kolomya Ukraine.

[@GeneaVlogger]

I would trust the records more than the assumption that your surname is only found in one town, but you're also talking about areas not too far apart and families moved a lot more than people expect. My own family were in Sokyryany, which was part of Romania but is now in Ukraine on the border of Moldova, but many ended up in Iași, Romania. Unfortunately all tough areas. JewishGen should be one of the first places you look - www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania. If looking in Kolomya, which might not be a bad idea to just check, you'll need to check out the Gesher Galicia database - www.geshergalicia.org/

[@Lagolop]

@@GeneaVlogger I guess I should have said Buccovina because that is a historic region with constantly shifting borders )one day Ukraine, another day Romania, another time Poland ...LOL. Both sides of my family immigrate to Canada in the 1800s. My wife is doing the ancestry research for both our families. Her family has loads of info and in fact her father had traced his roots back to Tomagaddy (1100s) which is in Ireland. Her mother's side goes back to 1700s Scotland, Holland and Bavaria. But she is not Jewish and I think it is a lot easier for Christians than for Jews. I could be wrong. Thanks for the advise. I think my wife has already used those databases.

[@barbaraheck5638]

Any tips on how to research ancestors from a town in present day Ukraine that no longer exists? My German in laws & their families had to leave Krucha (east of Kostopil) & Schepek/Schepel (west of Lutsk) during WW2. I also have unconfimed information that my husband's grandfather was 'burgermeister' (mayor) of Krucha. Where could I look for confirmation of this?

[@GeneaVlogger]

You'll want to look for records by Oblast or Gubernia. There is a Krucha in Khemlnytskyi Oblast, but based on your description is doesn't sound like the same town. Your description sounds like Rivne Oblast or Volyn Oblast.

[@barbaraheck5638]

@@GeneaVlogger thanks! I think it will be difficult since they were Baptist. Any idea where I would find out about a town mayor?

[@leeuwevdh]

Is it just me or have I seen this video before?

[@GeneaVlogger]

Must be deja vu!

[@leeuwevdh]

@@GeneaVlogger I could’ve sworn I saw this video uploaded a couple of days ago, just without the collaboration bit at the beginning. But it’s probably just a deja vu right ;)

[@cefcat5733]

Yes. I guess it bears🐻🐨 repeating,due to the seriousness of the situation. 😐🙄🤔It might have even speeded up the GENEALOGICAL work.

[@GeneaVlogger]

Just to clarify (I think you both get it, but sarcasm is hard to read online sometimes 😂), this was re-uploaded as part of Project Ukraine.

[@cefcat5733]

@@GeneaVlogger hmm, If you meant my comment?..I didn't mean it sarcastically at all towards the people GV, really. Was commenting to the other comments in the same fashion but no sarcasm was meant, except to the job of archiving. . I understand now, why you might have thought that. I am maybe just trying to force some sense, some little crumb of positivity, out of the senseless and am glad to see something forever- good happening, in the universe, in spite of a tragic human event. I just imagine them.. 'speeding up' with their archiving. I once computer- archived very old, illegible death records, with an old style alphabet, from handwritten, not printed, cemetery index cards... We had a non-forgiving, horrible program. I made myself my own workbook, of handwritten letters, caps and small, out of the alphabet, variable written forms, spanning over several generations. I could refer to my manual, letter by letter and decifer the names. It takes a lot of time and teamwork. You have to be accurate as well. Already under normal conditions, it is like having one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, still motivated to get further. I am still face-to-face, each day, with refugees, from Syria, who are somewhat 'settled' and now, those of the Ukraine. We are all neighbor's here. I really hope that your people there, will be safe and accomplish their goals.

[@easytiger6570]

Isn't it safer in Kyiv now, after russian troops retreated from the north

[@Amari_14]

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