I've just received news of more donations for December 2007. The total for the year is now US$4,604 - a grand total.
Thanks for everyone's help!
Happy new year!
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Monday, 31 December 2007
Monday, 2 April 2007
Developing the plan....
Why do we need a plan? That almost sounds like a silly question. Making a plan helps people to put in their viewpoint and gains commitment to what comes out of the process. It means we have priorities for our work and we have clear ideas of goals and outcomes. We haven't a plan right now.
My idea for making our plan is to work on two main levels:
- a district wide level; and
- a shtetl level.
The district wide level will focus on the translation of the district revision lists. We'll need to gain some feel for the numbers and types of records included there and then identify priorities.
The shtetl level plans will look at what's been translated for each shtetl, what's untranslated and taking account of the probable number of interested researchers we can set priorities for each shtetl.
For some shtetls there may be no records to translate. In those cases there are two main areas of possible translation activity: the district level records, and yizkor books - many of which have not been translated for the district's shtetls.
At the same time there is scope for other activity that should be useful:
1. Shtetl family trees - Steve Bloom has posted on this subject for Salakas.
2. Emigration studies - where did people go and when. This may help with ideas for developing your research as people from the same shtetl often went to the same place.
3. Creation of shtetlinks - websites for each of the shtetls - to bring together yizkor book material, trip reports, photos, family trees and anything else that's relevant.
So in the end we can create a priority list for each shtetl for all this possible activity over the next few years.
Let's hear from you, please!
My idea for making our plan is to work on two main levels:
- a district wide level; and
- a shtetl level.
The district wide level will focus on the translation of the district revision lists. We'll need to gain some feel for the numbers and types of records included there and then identify priorities.
The shtetl level plans will look at what's been translated for each shtetl, what's untranslated and taking account of the probable number of interested researchers we can set priorities for each shtetl.
For some shtetls there may be no records to translate. In those cases there are two main areas of possible translation activity: the district level records, and yizkor books - many of which have not been translated for the district's shtetls.
At the same time there is scope for other activity that should be useful:
1. Shtetl family trees - Steve Bloom has posted on this subject for Salakas.
2. Emigration studies - where did people go and when. This may help with ideas for developing your research as people from the same shtetl often went to the same place.
3. Creation of shtetlinks - websites for each of the shtetls - to bring together yizkor book material, trip reports, photos, family trees and anything else that's relevant.
So in the end we can create a priority list for each shtetl for all this possible activity over the next few years.
Let's hear from you, please!
Wednesday, 7 March 2007
Going live
Welcome kind visitor! take your shoes off and relax. This blog is now open for your comments. I've had a few emails directly following the announcement on the LitvakSIG forum and digest. Thank you Steve Bloom, Linda Cantor and Oscar Friedman for getting in touch and for your best wishes for this incumbent.
Steve is another Salakas researcher (looking at ROZENBERG) - and he tells me that for one of the Polish shtetls he's also interested in someone prepared a family tree for the whole shtetl. While they had the benefit of vital records and we have to rely on revision lists it is still possible we may be able to get some way with a "Family Tree of Salakas" and, for example, put names to some of the many "Last Name Unknown" women who arrive in our family trees and massively branch our family trees. We will need to obtain as yet uncaptured revision lists for 1858/71 and 1876. Is this a worthwhile medium term project? Comments?
Linda is the Chair of the terrific RokiskisSIG (link down on the left). Her family - as some of mine did - came from somewhere else before hitting downtown Rakushik. She'd like us to do more record capture for some of the smaller shtetls. I wonder whether we can try to emulate the Rokiskis website for other parts of the District? Maybe not in such splendour....
Oscar is researching the KORB family from Salakas, but seems to be missing the key record to tie in his grandfather to the records. His family believe that Meir KORB may have gone to Argentina. I had not thought to look for members of my clan in Argentina: Chicago, Boston, Minnesota, New York, Ekaterinoslav, Schedrin, London and South Africa, yes, Argentina no. It would be interesting to analyse shtetl emigration patterns. And it might give clues for research in our own families. What do you think?
Paul
Steve is another Salakas researcher (looking at ROZENBERG) - and he tells me that for one of the Polish shtetls he's also interested in someone prepared a family tree for the whole shtetl. While they had the benefit of vital records and we have to rely on revision lists it is still possible we may be able to get some way with a "Family Tree of Salakas" and, for example, put names to some of the many "Last Name Unknown" women who arrive in our family trees and massively branch our family trees. We will need to obtain as yet uncaptured revision lists for 1858/71 and 1876. Is this a worthwhile medium term project? Comments?
Linda is the Chair of the terrific RokiskisSIG (link down on the left). Her family - as some of mine did - came from somewhere else before hitting downtown Rakushik. She'd like us to do more record capture for some of the smaller shtetls. I wonder whether we can try to emulate the Rokiskis website for other parts of the District? Maybe not in such splendour....
Oscar is researching the KORB family from Salakas, but seems to be missing the key record to tie in his grandfather to the records. His family believe that Meir KORB may have gone to Argentina. I had not thought to look for members of my clan in Argentina: Chicago, Boston, Minnesota, New York, Ekaterinoslav, Schedrin, London and South Africa, yes, Argentina no. It would be interesting to analyse shtetl emigration patterns. And it might give clues for research in our own families. What do you think?
Paul
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