Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
then Kyiv was awash with rumour that something was afoot and many promptly de-
camped to the Carpathians and Crimea as fast as they could.
As more information came to light, discontent over Moscow's handling of the
Chornobyl disaster revived nationalist feeling. Ukrainian independence had become a
minority interest, mainly confined to the country's west, but slowly, the hardcore in the
west started to take the rest of Ukraine with them. In 1988 marches rocked Lviv, and the
Uniate Church, banned by Stalin in 1946, emerged from the underground as a pro-inde-
pendence lobby. In 1989 the opposition movement Rukh (Ukrainian People's Movement
for Restructuring) was established. By 1990 protest marches and hunger strikes had
spread to Kyiv.
SEARCHING FOR LOST ANCESTORS
Brought to the reading public's attention by Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel
Everything Is Illuminated, for the last two decades countless descendents of
Ukrainians, Jews, Germans and Poles who left the region in the 19th and 20th cen-
turies have been returning to Ukraine to research their family history. However, as
Foer discovers, this is not always an easy task! The secret of finding records, loca-
tions and survivors is to do your research before you leave home and hire a reliable
guide (especially if you don't speak the language and/or are not familiar with the
culture/history/geography of Ukraine). Here we list some helpful resources, con-
tacts and general good places to start.
Web Resources
Fedderatiion o
n of E
f East E
t Euuropean F
n Family His
ily History So
y Sociietiies (
www.feefhs.org
)
Jewish
ishGen (
www.jewishgen.org
)
UUkraiine G
e Geneolo
ology F
y Foruum (
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine/
)
East E
t Euuropean G
n Genealo
alogiical So
al Sociiety (
www.eegsociety.org
)
SState A
e Arcchiives G
s Geneolo
ology Se
y Sectiion (
www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/genealogia.php
)
Family Se
ily Searcch (
www.familysearch.org
)
Rouutes t
s to R
o Roots F
s Fouunddatiion (
www.rtrfoundation.org
)
MMemory B
y Boook (
www.memory-book.com.ua
)
Jewish h
ish heriitage o
e of G
f Galic
alicia & B
ia & Buukovyna (
http://jgaliciabukovina.net
)
German g
n geneolo
ology r
y resouurce (
www.genealogienetz.de
)
Galic
alicia g
ia geneolo
ology r
y resouurce (
www.halgal.com
)
