The top post was originally published on the MAGYAR-AMERICAN blog on July 22 2019
Those of you who have been in the United States for a couple generations at least may be only partly Hungarian / Magyar. Your family may also have origins in Slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, or Ukraine as well. Yes, we intermarried with our "own" people : people who shared a religion or the experience of Central and Eastern Europe. Those of you who remember grandparents or great-grandparents who lived in ethnic ghettos of immigrants before the family started moving out to the suburbs may remember hearing so many languages spoken when you went to visit. You might also be part RUTHENIAN, of the mountain people who lived in the Carpathians in what became four different countries. Close to 4 MILLION people in the database born between 1650 and 1920 - rush to the site and see the possibilities.
A wealthy man who instigated his own genealogy research and believes the ancestors remain with us so long as we remember their names, Igor Howszowski, is responsible.
LINK TO THE DATABASE UKRAINIAN GENEALOGY DATABASE - PRA.IN.UA
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STATE ARCHIVAL SERVICE OF UKRAINE as of 2024
February 2024 : The United States State Department announced that it will provide aid to the Archival Service of Ukraine to ensure the protection and digitation of the documents of the National Archive Fond of Ukraine. International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas in cooperation.
March 2024 : A records searching on-line project to document the victims of repressions of the 1920s-1950's added to the Ukrainian Martyrology of the XX Century database.
Go to the site to see what's happening in this war-torn country with archival records and charity support of the effort to preserve them.
