Huge Genealogical Database of Ukrainians Born in 1650–1920 is Now Online
According to EuroMaiden Press at
http://bit.ly/2tbqm9k:
A huge database of people born in the
territory of contemporary Ukraine between 1650 and 1920 became available
online this week. Its opening crowned the four-year efforts of
activists to digitize, systematize, and assemble countless entries from
historical documents—but is not the final point of the project.
The database includes 2.56 mn people and
is expected to reach 4 to 5 mn in 2019. The access to its contents is
and will remain free of charge. The sources of data are manifold: birth
registers, fiscal and parish censuses, lists of nobility, voters, the
military, and victims of repressions, address directories, and other
documents produced under the Tsardom of Muscovy, Russian and Habsburg
Empires, Poland and the Soviet Union. A Roman-letter version of the data
index is reportedly to be enabled in the coming months.
All the users who register profiles on the project’s website
pra.in.ua
can construct their own family trees. Nearly 18 thousand trees have
been created in the first couple of days following the official
inauguration of the site.
You can read the full article at: http://bit.ly/2tbqm9k.
I normally look at web sites and make a quick evaluation before I write about them. However, the web site at
https://pra.in.ua/
is in Ukrainian, not one of my languages. I will simply mention the
site and leave it to you, the reader, to decide how useful it is for
you.
I assume you can read Ukrainian.
I did attempt to use Google Translate but the results were mixed. For
instance, I wondered if there is a fee to use this site. Google
translates reports, “To support the project financially. We have access
to the database free of charge, but to base the project developed and
increased resources are needed.”
O)n a different web page, Google Translate provided the following
words: “Access to the database is free. All costs of creating the
portal, its administration, technical support, development, work with
documents and content indexing database implemented entirely by
donations from outside users.”
The Ukrainian births database is available at: https://pra.in.ua.
The article in the EuroMaiden Press reports,
“A Roman-letter version
of the data index is reportedly to be enabled in the coming months.”