User:JBS66/Eastern European Place Renaming

This is a place to organize ideas for a future Eastern European place renaming/merging project.

• Watercooler Topic

Countries Involved

(thus far)

• Austria
  • It appears that Galizien, Austria is missing a hierarchy level in its place names.
  • Is the term Glacia (English) more widely used then Galizien (German)?
• Poland
  • It appears that Poland is missing a hierarchy level in its place names.
  • Poland Place Names Topic
  • Town, Powiat, Voivodeship, Poland
• Germany
• Russia
• Belarus
• Ukraine
  • Town, Raion, Oblast, Ukraine
• Romania
• Hungary

Sample Issue

The three following place pages are actually the same town at different points in history. Pomorzany (Złoczów), Galizien, Austria; later Pomorzany (Zborów), Tarnopol, Poland; now Pomoryany (Zolochiv), L'viv, Ukraine" FHLC catalog. The goal would be to combine pages such as these to the location of the town ~1900, and then reference the also-located in places on that one unique page.

• Place:Pomorzany, Galizien, Austria
• Place:Pomorzany, Tarnopol, Poland
• Place:Pomori︠a︡ny, Zolochiv, Lviv, Ukraine

Notes

• Should the pages that are missing a hierarchy level be renamed prior to merging?

Resources

• Jewish Community Locator at Ancestry.com (this is JewishGen's database that is being transferred to Ancestry)
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Jewish Historical Institute - Jewish Communities
• JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker
• Country-Specific Wikipedias (individual pages can be translated through Google.com)
  • Ukrainian
  • Russian
  • German
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Hungarian