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Krakow Immigrants on the Ellis Island Database
We wish to launch a new project on Shtetlinks Krakow.
Anyone can participate, and you don't even have to leave the comfort of your
desk! All you need is access to the Internet. We wish to document all Krakow
arrivals in the Ellis Island database.
A similar project was done by the Shtetlinks/Kupiskis Group
(which is much smaller than our Group!) and serves as an excellent example of
how such a project can be done. You can download a portion of their Excel
database to see the format and type of data that was collected.
To proceed with this project, the following needs to be done:
| Lili
Haber has kindly agreed to coordinate the data collection and to allocate tasks.
Please send her your completed Excel sheets or contact her should you have
any questions. |
| You, the viewer, can begin
right now! Simply go to the Ellis
Island Search Engine, start your search, and begin extracting data
from the original manifest. To avoid duplication,
just let everyone on the Krakow Discussion Forum know which alphabetical
letter you have chosen. If you want to collect data anonymously then you
will have to contact the Data Coordinator. |
| There are almost 150 members of the Krakow
Research Group. We only need 20 or so volunteers. If there are more, then
we can split a letter (eg: 'SA' to 'SM' and 'SN' to SZ') |
| The following letters have
already been allocated: L |
| Those who volunteer for the letter 'Q' will
be disqualified! |
| You will note that the
Kupiskis list contains many shtetl spelling variations. Therefore try to
include spellings such as Krakow, Cracow, Kroke, Krakau etc. |
| The time frame for
completion of this project is TWO MONTHS |
| Please
note: due to copyright laws, we will be unable to display the results on
our WebPages! Therefore ONLY VOLUNTEERS WILL RECEIVE THE COMPLETE EXCEL
FILE. |
Lets get going!
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