15 May 2010

The Vladimirets Information page has been updated, and the essay on The History of Jewish Life in Vladimirets is now available in pdf format as well.

12 Apr 2010

As promised, the Family Web Gallery has been updated.  We have over 200 new photographs, some of which had been up before, but somehow fell out of the albums.  If you've submitted photographs, please check to make sure they're all showing up.  We've had a bit of a baby boom across the family, welcoming Asaf Brill, Nicolai Baril and Hayden Alexander Bick in just the last 6 months.  I still have photographs to upload, so if you have photos to contribute to the album, especially the older photographs, please send them in. The more we can include in the family album, the more connections we make on the family tree.

Back by popular demand are graphic family trees.  Because the database contains individuals not attached to trees, and because the trees themselves are so intertwined, we can really only do graphics for descendants from a specific individual.  We can generate these trees for any name in the database, so if yours isn't shown, just ask.  Happy to run the report for you. The files are in Adobe pdf format and are available from the Vladimirets Family Tree page.

We've also made some updates to the Vladimirets surname list, adding names listed on passenger manifests (but not anywhere else) and from Pages of Testimony at Yad Vashem.

Some people have asked if they can submit stories, little memories, or other remembrances of what someone was like.  Absolutely!  We have the Stories & Writings page for just such a purpose.  It has memories of Vladimirets, Vladimiretsers and their descendants.  It is the place where the names and dates from the family tree become real people.  Your grandchildren will not know who your grandparents really were. . .if they were special to you, let us get to know them the way you knew them, and make sure your memories aren't lost.

Our new Facebook group for Vladimiretser descendants was announced a couple of weeks ago and is at 36 people and growing quickly. While the website is a great place to get information out, it doesn't allow for all of us cousins to connect, reconnect, or just get to know each other.

Please join us at the Vladimirets Landsleit Connection, by following the link below:

 http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=267466705727