Description: Genealogy tips & stories tracing family with microfilmed records, records in Ukrainian archives, and (sometimes) online records. Jewish genealogy blog
My 4th great grandfather David Rutner was born in what is now Kolodne, Ukraine, but which was Darva, Austria-Hungary during his life. I've found various clues about his life over the years, but I know to always check where I've checked before, as more is getting digitized and discovered all the time. I semi-regularly check Arcanum Digitheca , a great resource for Hungarian newspapers, journals, and more, but it had been a while. And sure enough, when I checked recently, I found a newly-added 1857 article
If you have family from what is now Zakarpattya Oblast, Ukraine, or from the areas immediately bordering (including towns in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary), there is an incredible newly-online resource available. There are records for both Jews and non-Jews in this collection. The predominant languages in the records are Hungarian and Slovakian, but there are also documents in Ukrainian, Yiddish, German, Romanian, and possibly more. I'll talk about where these are from, the types of documents I've found
JewishGen is an incredible collection of resources, especially the databases containing millions of indexed records--which has thousands of new records being added each month. But both because of how JewishGen's search engine works as well as how records are being indexed from (mostly) Eastern European languages to English, you may not be finding indexed records that are there and you would want to find. This post will discuss some different techniques that could help you find these records. And if you h