UKRAINIAN GENEALOGY DATABASE PRA.IN.UA and THE STATE ARCHIVAL SERVICE OF UKRAINE

The top post was originally published on the MAGYAR-AMERICAN blog on July 22 2019

Special note November 2018. Some parts of Historic Hungary are now in Ukraine. Ukrainians also lived in Hungary.

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.

A SPRING HOLIDAY HAUNTED BY WAR AND GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE : LOCAL STUDENTS TAKE AND THROW AWAY FREE FOOD

Not far from where I live there is a school.  I take my dog for walks around the school quite often.  There is a nice patch of grass there and many trees. There is also, on the days that school is in session, free lunch food thrown all over the grass, the sidewalks, under the trees.  It is a shameful waste of the food.  

Around the corner from the school there is a city garbage can.  It is often full of the plastic bags of these school lunches along with dog poop and other dirty and smelly things.  Yet I have not only seen homeless people reaching through the openings to snatch the thrown away food but I have seen SENIOR CITIZENS getting food out of there.

When I first noticed this was happening, I asked myself WHY?  Were the students badly brought up?  What lousy parents they must have! Did they take lunches with no intention of eating the food?  I asked workman, gardners, and employees of the school who all said they KNEW this was happening and that they thought it was terrible too.  But what?  A teacher cannot teach students it is wrong since the students do not have parents who can teach them it is wrong?

"I used to volunteer for a local food bank," I said, "And I can tell you that there were mostly seniors in line every week.  Why not have the kids donate the food to a food bank or take it to one of the rehabs in town?"

Although I have enough to eat, I did pick up some of the food off the sidewalk and take it home. The food is wrapped in cellophane except for fruit like apples, bananas, and oranges. There is often yogurt or frozen desert or fruit juice in a small container.  There are nuts, crackers, and cookies.  There are sticks of turkey.  Small burgers. There is pizza, and various burritos and calzones with that same cheese and tomato sauce type mixture.  Sometimes there are bags of carrots or celery or salad.

If I went into my local chain corner store and bought the like, I would probably pay at least $15 - maybe $20 retail for a typical bag of school food.

Since I could tell that what I picked up had very recently been thrown down and was still cold and sanitary, I decided to give this food a try.  I reasoned that maybe the students just don't like the taste.  Maybe it is too salty or not spiced.  I found nothing obviously wrong with the food.  The only other thing I could imagine might be happening is that the students are bored with the selection.

Still, as I read more and more horror stories coming out of Ukraine.  Not just hundreds of dogs starved and without water left in shelters that died, but also people in basements and subways and hide-aways without enough food and water - starving, I could not find it in my mind to understand or my heart to forgive these students - or their parents.  They have it too good.  They don't know.  They don't care!

Let their parents feed them then!

Now the school is on break and it looks like workmen have gone around the area and cleaned up any evidence of the food throw-away.

I so hope that by the time the school reopens my comments will have been received and someone there will put an end to this waste.

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