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Employing G

Reveal Res

Ukr

ospatial Genealogy to

idential and Kinship

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inian Village

University of Kansas

September 2011

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Karen with Father

Patrick Desbois (l.)an arco onza ez.

Father Desbois is the

author of Holocaust b

Bullets and thefounder of Yahad-In

Unum. Marco is the

Executive Director of

Yahad-In Unum.

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Rawa Ruska

Geospatial macroge Cadastral maps fro

Google Earth applic

ealogythe Austrian Empire

tions

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Rawa Ruska, Ukrain

River near the Polis Founded in the mid-

Austria-Hungary, PoUSSR and now Ukr

Long a mixed town,

Ukrainian

e, located on the Rata

border (Galicia)ifteenth century

and, Nazi Germany, theine

of Polish, Ukrainian, and

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e o a az pr son

Located on the RR tex erm na on camp

Jews of Rawa Rusk

execu on s es eat Belzec

o es were r ven o

by Ukrainian nationa ow e s e o a e

for soldiers killed in

camp or renc s

ack to the nearby Belzec

were killed at nearby

o ocaus y u e s or

near e en o

listsrman memor a ceme ery

W II

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oog e aps

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Gett Ima es

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9Photograph Karen G.R. Roekard

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We have termed the

for family history resscience, including G

genealogy.

Builds on a growingof using GIS for gen

visualization

Goal: Visuall rebuil

communities, lost pa

lost eo le

linkage of records used

arch with geospatialS geospatial

ield within Historical GISalogical research and

lost settlements and

tterns, and rediscover

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crogenea ogy s abegins with a single

Macrogenealogy, in

a range of genealogi

Examines a wide ra communit as thhistorical records and political relatio

m y s ory researc andividual and works its

ur view, looks beyond

cal sources to create .

nge of relationships withinare revealed in the

conomic, social, cultural,ships and patterns.

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Vital records

Tabula Registers Kollel Galicia record

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Photo

13graph Karen G.R. Roekard

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Indexes

Full Contracts

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Photographs Karen G.R. Roekard

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Photographs Karen G.R. Roekard

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16Photograph Karen G.R. Roekard

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Cadastral maps sho

ownership of land p Primary purpose: t

T icall the also s

building numbers orvalues and other inf

Austrian Empire per

the boundaries and

rcelsxation

ow or are linked to

addresses, propertyrmation

ormed extensive

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GIS provides the en

spatial community fthroughout a town o

GIS also provides th

creation, query, and BUT enealo dat

different purpose an

of our ke challen e

ine for building the

rest of relationshipsregion

power for database

visualizationbases are desi ned for a

reconciling them is one

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In GIS databases, th

information is locatioand longitude or oth

system.

Everything else in ththe location

E.g., street addres

owner, the numberthe value of the pro

etc.

e key piece of

n, whether it be latituder map coordinate

GIS database is tied to

, the name of the property

of occu ants of the home,perty, the size of the home,

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Start with scanned o

map Georeference/rectify

to a map projection

Digitize houses anda vector data la er i

Add database infor

places, events)

r photographed cadastral

cadastral map (i.e., fit it

nd coordinate system)

ther features result isGIS

ation from genealogical

, ,

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Geospatial Genealogy

Jewish Householders O

Hand Drawn Map

Rawa Ruska, 1854

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Photograph Karen G.R. Roekard

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Photogr

Red houses are

brick

Yellow houses arewood

Lot numbers listed

for each house or

buildin .

aph Karen G.R. Roekard

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Building the

Digitizin

patial Database

the Houses

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Israel Grauer

House Number

Lot Number

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30Photograph Stephen Egbert

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34Photograph Stephen Egbert

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Cadastral maps (or

maps) can be addedImage Overlays

A slider can then be

transparency of thecompare it with pres

It becomes a tool to

former landsca es shave disappeared.

ny accurately surveyed

into Google Earth as

used to adjust the

adastral map, letting yount-day satellite imagery

ee which features in

ill remain and which

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High resolution

satellite imagery

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Ghost features: land

longer are visible

Relict features: survi

of features

cape features that no

ving features or remnants

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The bmiddle

squar

synag

center

disapp

buildin

the to

are als

ilding in theof the town

and the

gue (right

have both

eared.

gs fronting

n square

o one.

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The two Christian churches,

still standing.

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Yizkor books are bo

Holocaust survivors

communities destro

Valuable source for

Holocaust life

ks compiled by

n memory of their

ed in the Holocaust

econstructing pre-

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Many Yizkor books i

highlighting key feat

were important to th

Although not drawn

identify other specififeatures

E.g., ritual baths, s

clude sketch maps

res, especially those that

Jewish community

o scale, Yizkor maps

sites of ghost and relict

hools, cemeteries

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Many of us desire to

importance to our an

Once homes or othe

cemetery) have bee

locations can be sav GPS can uide a ret

ancestral town, even

features have been

visit the sites of historical

cestors

r locations (synagogue,

entered in GIS, their

ed as GPS pointsrn to sites in ones

in cases where the

bliterated on the round

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o os w geograplongitude) coded in t

give ground views o

Visually, provided

By matching time s

Using a GPS-enabl

on smart hones

c oca on a u ee metadata can be

the exact location

ou can identify on a map

amps on photos and GPS

ed camera, including those

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Data many record

filmed, including cad

Registers, and other

Access to records

Languages! (GermaRussian Polish Yid

Reconciling databas

have not yet been

astral maps, Tabula

policies and costs

, Latin, Ukrainian,ish Hebrew

differences (GIS vs.

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u e awa usand space

any recor s rem

Visualization, e.g., ovs. s a c snaps o s

E.g., movement of

xp ore v sua patterprocesses (and vice

a e maps anviewers and web too

a a a ase roug me

n un appe

patterns through time

ews to Rynek

ns to un erstanversa)

ava a e v a reels

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United States Holoc

Association of Ameri Family History Tech

Genealogical Societi

ust Memorial Museum

can Geographersology Workshop

es

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