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Ukrainian Genealogy Guides: Archives, DNA, Ancestors

Practical guides from the OpenHeritage team and volunteers — how to preserve a cemetery, where to start with DNA, how archive collections are built — and notes on what changed on the platform.

Series · chapters: 10 · 37 min

Cemetery Preservation: Cooperation and Opportunities

Materials for cemetery operators, communities, administrations, volunteers and donors on preserving names and burial places together.

Series overview

  1. For Cemetery Operators, Administrations and Caretakers

    How a cemetery catalog helps visitors find graves on their own, keeps staff knowledge from being lost and complements, rather than replaces, official record-keeping.

    · 6 min read
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  2. For Local Communities (Hromadas) and Local Self-Government

    How a community can start with one cemetery, without a large program or a dedicated budget, and make its memory reachable for people who live far away.

    · 4 min read
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  3. For District and Oblast Administrations

    How to move from scattered initiatives to a coordinated program for preserving burial heritage, and see what has been done and what still needs attention.

    · 4 min read
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  4. For Civic, Religious and Local-History Communities, Diaspora and Volunteers

    How civic, religious and local-history communities, the diaspora and volunteers can preserve a cemetery even when its community is scattered, without losing authorship of their work.

    · 4 min read
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  5. For Foundations, Donors, Patrons and Business

    How to support a concrete result in preserving burial heritage, judge quality rather than volume alone, and fund openness rather than exclusive access.

    · 4 min read
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  6. What Is Free and Why Support Is Needed?

    What is free for everyone on OpenHeritage, what actually needs resources, and why voluntary support is not a hidden fee for access.

    · 3 min read
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  7. Open Burial Records Are Not Open Family Files

    Which burial details can be public, what must not enter open search, exports or the API, and under which conditions closed working features could exist.

    · 3 min read
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  8. How to Start When Data Is Incomplete or Scattered Across Formats?

    Where to start if you have a book, a spreadsheet, a folder of photos or just a list of cemeteries, and how to agree a small pilot instead of a large program.

    · 3 min read
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  9. How to Ensure Accuracy and Correct Mistakes?

    How a monument inscription differs from a burial book entry and a family's account, how to keep the provenance of information, mark uncertainty and correct mistakes.

    · 3 min read
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  10. From a Photograph to a Name That Can Be Found

    A photograph preserves how an inscription looks, and transcription makes its content searchable: how volunteers, AI and a double check work together.

    · 3 min read
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Platform

Platform Updates

Latest OpenHeritage platform updates — new features, improvements, and fixes across recent releases.

· 69 min read
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Archives and collections

Automated Collections for Moderators

How to create, edit, and verify automated collections that populate from repository reference codes.

· 5 min read

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