IAJGS 2016 Speaker Profile: Alex Denysenko

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Alex Denysenko lives in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv State University, and studied at Institute of International Tourism in Moscow, Russia; and Yad Vashem International School of Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

Since 1991, Alex has worked as a researcher and guide in research/teaching/touring programs. These projects deal with the Jewish segment of Central European history to find documentation/material/oral evidence about Jewish residents and their heritage.

Alex also conducted applied research projects about Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian-Russian-German relations in Galicia connected with the events of the First and Second World wars, as well as border changes/resettlements/genocide that resulted from the above conflicts.

See his website at http://ukrainelivingfamily.blogspot.com/

“Carpathian Puzzle” (Weds-119), 7:30 – 8:45 A.M.

For centuries the Carpathian area was divided between several countries: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc. Boundaries and administrative units of these countries were often changing. Laws, rules, languages and traditions of registration of vital statistical events followed boundary and administrative unit changes. These changes were, often,  controversial. Consequently, vital and other relevant records are now, seemingly illogically, scattered among several countries and kept by a number of institutions. Thus, when one plans to trace one’s family history, it is necessary to contact various types of offices often located in different provinces and countries.

This presentation will describe an efficient search process for locating and acquiring Jewish genealogical information and communities’ history information in various archival institutions of the Carpathian region.

Category: Beginning genealogists

Topics: Ashkenazic research, Cemetery research, Genealogy and Jewish history related to WWI, Immigration and migration over the ages, Jewish history and culture, Organization and preservation, Rabbinic research, Repositories, Carpathian region.