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Re: Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] Looking for volunteers ..... read on
开云体育HI Chris
I would be more than happy to get involved however I work full time and the archives at the Sikorski Institute are only open during the week. If the project will continue next year I can take? few days off. If anything could be done at home or over the weekends, count me in. From my personal experience, searching for any information about my grandfather, I have noticed that their index of names is very limited. My grandfather's name wasn't there yet when I searched the history of the units he served in His name was mentioned a few times. If by any chance you will get a chance to work there please bear this in mind so if you come across names please check if they are listed in the index. If not please add them to the list? with the reference of the files or if the names are already listed please check if the reference of that document is included. It will help relatives of researchers to have a full information about these people. I have only scratched a surface of my grandfather's whereabouts because it took me almost a day to locate his name. It's an exciting project. I spent a full day with no food or water as I didn't want to loose any minute:)))) Best regards. Izabela "Chris W wroblew705@... [Kresy-Siberia]" wrote: ?
Thanks
Michael!
The
hope is that if we get enough people together a group could then spend several days cataloging (or whatever amount of time individuals can manage). This would of course be dependent on what PISM will allow. For those from out of town perhaps arrangements could
be made with local members to put them up for a few days or more as London is pricy.
Chris.....
From: "melester@... [Kresy-Siberia]" To: "Kresy-Siberia@..." Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] Looking for volunteers ..... read on ?
i visit london a couple of times a year and might be interested in volunteering a few days to this project but i am not a
polish speaker al;tho i can understand some speech and read a few words with assistance of a dictionary.
could i be of some use?
michael
sydney
From: "wroblew705@... [Kresy-Siberia]" To: Kresy-Siberia@... Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:21 AM Subject: [Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] Looking for volunteers ..... read on [3 Attachments] ?
Kresy-Siberia is looking for some volunteers and here’s why. During an interesting and informative visit to the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum (PISM) in May 2014 I was told their archive had
many documents that were still un-catalogued. With this in mind I recently proposed to Kresy-Siberia’s executive board the idea of approaching PISM to have active Kresy-Siberia members voluntarily help catalogue these unidentified documents. For the moment
I am posting this only to
get an idea of numbers who would be interested in participating in such an effort. I will add that this is open to everyone and not exclusive to UK members. Once these documents are catalogued the museum would have a better sense of what they have which will
provide future academics, historians and the public with a rich source of research material. Now to be clear this is ‘only cataloguing’ which is a careful and respectful inspection and identification of rare irreplaceable documents, not a translation of their
contents. I have no idea as to how much is un-catalogued or how long such a project would take, it would likely be a progressive task. Was asked if I would coordinate the project and gladly accepted. Once I have a better sense of numbers I will confer with
the executive board after which PISM will be approached with an offer, if they accept plans can then be formulated. That being said please post or message me if you are interested.
Chris Wroblewski
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