Four new family members spread across the world

I now had four names and four email addresses for new family members spread across the world.

These four family members are all descended from my mother's great uncle, Eliezer Scholem. He had six daughters. With the help of my newly found cousin in Australia, I now had living descendants for five of these daughters.

Once again the power of the internet was harnessed for my research. Just searching on individual names can provide a surprising amount of information.. The amount of information on the web is an ever increasing feast for the family geneaologist.As time goes by additional resources are added to the web so a keen family researcher should revisit  the search on names of important relatives in their  tree. 

These sisters were born in Czernowitz. Searching again whilst writing this blog, I have discovered that there is now a Czernowitz BMD database available on the web, for which I must thank all of the volunteers working on that project.

Cemetery records, school websites, news stories,  genealogical websites, social networking sites and other sites all combine to throw up interesting stories and useful information. As usual the results were variable. This depends in part on what the individual or their family has done to actually feature on the web but more significantly is dependent on the country where they are or were living. Some countries are less advanced and do not have as much information available electronically and others are more restrictive and careful with privacy and restrict access to some of the available information.

If genealogical websites come up in the search, they can provide a lot of useful information. Geni is one such family tree website. However I have learned that care should be taken using information from this and similar websites. Not all family trees are compiled with validation to ensure accuracy.

I sent off introductory emails to the four new contacts and waited to see what response I would get.
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