The InterActive Databases of the Ukraine SIG

The leaders of the Ukraine SIG have asked for your help and the JewishGenners are responding! We asked you to help us access the shared knowledge-base that is spread among our users and in the first day of the posting you sent pictures, Russian vital records, Russian census material, and more! Partner with us in creating these databases; post your pictures or records you've found in your research; tell us about individual family members; keep your cherished family pictures and simultaneously share them with the rest of us. That increases everybody’s chances of finding records related to those towns and of you finding pictures that others may have of your family . It also greatly increases your ability to network with people who have responded to this site and to the postings in the SIG Digest. Search engines, both on and off Jewishgen, will have a better chance of finding the posting and more people will participate in the search. Pictures taken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of people and places there; title pages of books printed in those towns or by authors from those towns; photos of artifacts from the Jewish communities of those places; and all kinds of other material is desirable. Please send information on any Ukraine community!

We begin with three items - two databases and a collection point. All are designed to be augmented continuously from your information. All are designed to work seamlessly with JewishGen's services of the JGFF and the Shtetl sites. The best way to use these database is to keep an up-to-date email on file with JewishGen's Family Finder. Then you have the security of not posting your email publicly and still letting people know about information that you have submitted and research which you want to be kept informed about.

Towns by Families

Tell us the name of a place in the Ukraine with its old name, the modern name if you know it and the name of at least one Jewish family who lived there and when they did. Add more families if you know them. Let us know whether you would like to be informed about research done on the Jewish community there. Copy this form’s header line and fill it in. There is no limit to the number you can do! (We will not post email addresses here, but will direct people to use the security of JGFF to find each other’s email. We can even just post your JGFF number rather than your name, if you choose)

Sample Form
Click here for Town/Family List as of November 2005

Occupation Survey

Help us get a better look at the lives of our ancestors. We are doing an occupational survey of Jews in the Ukraine at twenty year intervals. We will work backwards from 1910, 1890, 1870, 1850, etc. Copy this form and fill it in for as many as you know!

Sample Form
Click here for Occupational Survey as of November 2005

Ukrainian Towns – People and Records supplied by the SIG Membership

What you will find here is a separate link to each town with the pictures and records that we have been sent. Please send information on any Ukraine community and we will post it here. In September 2005 we requested information specifically on these ten Jewish communities in the Ukraine: Yablonets; Korets; Novograd-Volhynsky; Ostropol; Chernikov; Zhitomir; Berdichev; Chudnov; Staro-Konstantinov; Shepetovka. But we are interested in every village, town, and city, in the Ukraine that had once been part of the Russian Empire. They will be listed in a table like the one below, alphabetically regardless of guberniya or oblast.

Sample Form
Click here for Collection Points for Ukrainian Towns as of November 2005

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