WHAT'S HAPPENING IN UKRAINE - ARCHIVES and ARCHIVAL RECORDS

I've been trying to find out what has been happening with the archives in Ukraine, the projects that were digitalizing to preserve records before the war broke out, and so on.  There is not much in the news.  So what I'm relaying here is mostly what is making the rounds.

First of all, there have been numerous digitalizing projects throughout Ukraine, which is actually the size of Texas.  These projects came up within provinces.  As horrid as the war is, there are cities that have not been touched, since the focus seems to be around the Black Sea and the eastern border. FamilySearch is involved and some permissions had been given.  My understanding is that:

Some archivists have had to flee.

Some archivists are still working to digitalize.

The State Archives of Ukraine may still be operational: ARCHIVES GOV UKRAINE - Anatolii Khromov

However, the site does not seem to have posted updated events since last fall, before the war began.  Also, there are some fund raising drives.

One archive was destroyed QIRIM : ARCHIVE DESTROYED   In Chernihiv Region

Russian soldiers went in and set it on fire.  "In the Chernihiv Region, the occupiers destroyed the SBU archive.  There were documents about the repression of the Soviet regime against Ukriainians.  This was announced by the head of the State of of Archival Service of Ukraine Anatolii Khromov.   

I DO BELIEVE THAT WAR CRIMES ad GENOCIDE ARE BEING COMMITTED.

COMING UP - POLAND RESEARCH - IT'S HAPPENING!

I have an ancestral line to Poland and know some of you are frustrated by POLAND RESEARCH. So I'll be posting on the subject of Poland genealogy soon - come back here to ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY BlogSpot on May 5th. See you then!

AMAZING UKRAINIAN GENEALOGY SITE OPEN - IGOR HOSZOWSKI MANIFESTS HERITAGE SITE

EUROMAID PRESS : HUGE GENEALOGY DATABASE - UKRAINIANS BORN 1650-1920

The database has manifest due to a wealthy Ukrainian, Igor Hoszowski. 

He said, "I was looking for information in various archives.  This process lasted for five or six years.  I managed to explore four lines of my kin, each consisting of 10-12 generations.  The continual chains have reached the early eighteenth century.  If the persons from collateral lines (first and second cousins etc.) are included, in total, I know the first and last names of nearly people."   ...  Our forefathers are with us, he believes, as long as we remember their names.  So he decided to launch a platform that would preserve this information for the future and be easily accessible to the public.

   HERE IS THE LINK DIRECTLY TO THE DATABASE UKRAINIAN BIRTHS -DATABASE

EXCERPT: Access to the database is free of charge.  All expenses incurred for the purposes of creation of the portal and its administration, technical support, development, documents indexing and database extensions are covered exclusively by the donations of the site users.  The site is interactive.  users can add their own information to the database or edit existing records.  There is an opportunity to build your own genealogic tree.  The program "pra analytics" developed by our programmers will match updating of the project database with y our genealogic tree every day, and in the case of finding potential links to relatives you will be informed about it.