Kresopis

Your grandmother said the family came from Horodek. You type "Horodek" into today's map and find nothing. The village changed countries and spelling four times before it vanished from the registers altogether. Kresopis links a pre-war place name to its modern counterpart in Belarus or Lithuania where one could be identified. Type the name the way you remember it, even with a typo or without Polish diacritics, and the app finds matches with their interwar administrative affiliation: gmina, county and voivodeship, and, where data exists, the parish (c. 1933). A good starting point for your next search in the archives. On top of that, a personal family archive built for the realities of the region: one person could have three different spellings of a surname in three different offices, patronymics were the norm, and records were kept by three different faiths. You record people, facts, and…