This is FANTASTIC!!! I found many records for family members in Lwow that I do not find on other websites dedicated to Polish and Galician records. One record from the Ternopol area too. Plus the indexes have a lot of information, which is great. I’ve been able to access the scans without problem.
> On Oct 10, 2026, at 10:53 AM, Edgar Hauster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Czernowitzers... > > Archival.name is a free Jewish genealogy website created and launched by Luke > Rothman in October 2026: > > https://archival.name > > On my first search, I found records for my relative Alter Hausthor, a > bookbinder in Radautz in the years-just imagine!-1890-1894! Amazing! Happy > Hunting! > > > Luke Rothman from Washington, DC, the creator of this NEW search engine > states as follows: "I've built a free website, archival.name, with many > records that aren't indexed or searchable anywhere else. It has 3.3 million > records from registers, censuses, house lists and name lists, and 1.5 million > listings from printed Galician directories (1883–1942). There's also a Vienna > section with 13 million entries from Lehmann's address books (1915–1942), for > up to 2.4 million people. That section also has the 1915 directory of nearly > 20,000 refugee households from Galicia and Bukowina. > > 93% of the Vienna entries are linked to the current address on Google Maps. > Most other records are linked to their town, or will be soon. The "Places" > tab has a gazetteer of the 13,795 places of Galicia and Bukowina in the 1900 > census, nearly all mapped, and the Galician gazetteers of 1869–1941. > > A list of records (over a million of the vital records have never been > indexed anywhere else): > > Lwów births 1900–1924 (49,000), marriages 1872–1939 (30,000), deaths > 1864–1942 (95,000), linked to each other where they match > Soviet civil records of Lwów/Lviv and its oblast, 1940–41 and 1944–46 > (305,000) > Lwów conversions, the community's registration cards and voters' lists > 1937–43, and the files of the Palestine Office, Hechaluc, the emigration > office and the Jewish schools (170,000) > Stanisławów conscript registers 1919–39, Tarnopol community records, and the > repatriation lists of 1944–46 (225,000) > Kraków, Podgórze and Klasno births, marriages and deaths, with the yearly > indexes (186,000) > Kraków censuses 1857–1921 (655,000), and Podgórze, Rzeszów and Nowy Sącz > censuses (238,000) > Registers of other Galician towns, some going back to the mid 1800s (860,000) > Congress Poland registers 1915–1942 (211,000), and community papers and lists > (176,000) > Kraków and Lwów house lists of the 1850s–1890s (50,000) > Nearly every result links to the exact page of the original scan, at AGAD, > the Kraków and Rzeszów archives, DALO, USHMM, Yad Vashem, the Vienna City > Library and others. Any result can be opened to show the transcription of the > whole page. > > Anyone can search. To see full results, sign in with Apple or Google; this > keeps bots from copying the data. Your email is never shared, and I won't > write to you." > > Edgar Hauster [MacBook] > > This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of > > Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed > in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not > necessarily > the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members > or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has > an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a > searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, > archived messages can be found at: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. > > To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. > https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions > > To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected]
