Facebook and all that is
posted there often leads me to new resources that I was not aware of.
A case
in point was that yesterday I saw someone mention a new database being posted
-- A list of 56,000 people repatriated to Bialystok
With
some of my roots in eastern Poland
and the Ukraine , I’m always
curious when a resource from Eastern Europe is mentioned, especially for Poland
It ends
up that the data is housed on Genealogy Indexer which was created in
August, 2008 by hobbyist genealogist Logan Kleinwaks. That means this website
has been around for over 5 years!
It is self-described as “... 350,000 pages of historical directories (business, address, telephone, etc., primarily from Central and Eastern Europe), 28,000 pages of 64 yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust), 32,000 pages of Polish and Russian military documents (lists of officers, casualties, etc.), 35,000 pages of community and personal histories, and 13,000 pages of Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources. More genealogical resources are being added daily.”
As you
can imagine, I had some catching up to do and so spent a bit of time looking
around his website.
You can
search across the entire database on the main page (see image above). Here are
the search results for Malecka. From
this you will see that as its name implies, this website “Indexes” records held
and made available by a variety of institutions. As such an aggregator, it gives you one-stop
searching across some pretty obscure and yet invaluable databases.
I
thought the reference to the Galician Schematism [Schematyzm Galicyjski] was interesting. I was curious as to what is that? I found an answer via the Glenview (IL) Public
Library blog – the equivalent of our
Yellow Pages.
I
personally found it helpful to click on each “collection” as listed in the
upper left corner. This immediately gave
me a sense of what locales and time periods are currently available for each
class of records.
There
is a lot listed! If you are researching
Eastern European, Russian, and ancestors from neighboring countries, you just
might find a gem here.
Is there a particular database on this website where
you found your ancestors listed?
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