Dave Obee's "Back Page" column in the June-July 2022 issue of Internet Genealogy hit a real bell with all genealogists. Dave's mother was born in Ukraine, he has visited several times and of course he is passionate about preserving and accessing Ukrainian family history in the form of archival records.
According to Dave, "FamilySearch has several crews at work in Ukraine. After the invasion started, most of those crews stayed on the job, despite the dangers, gathering everything they could." Isn't that totally awesome?
Our state is helping. The above image is from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, campus of U.of W., Seattle. Somehow these good folks are helping to save the contents of over 700 archives in Ukraine...... and to be fair, they are not alone.
On a website, The Conversation, a journalistic forum, dated 10 April 2022, this was the headline: "Libraries around the world are helping safeguard Ukrainian books and culture."
Dave Obee ended his column with these words: "Ukraine will live on in the hearts of everyone with roots there. And family history will live on as well, a family history that has been given much more meaning by the Russian invasion."
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