Holiday Fair of Masters
CULTURE The Minsk Times Thursday, March 17, 2011 9 Personal records Holiday fair of masters from Guests from Lithuania and Poland join folk masters and craftsmen from all over ‘Nominal Belarus in Grodno, to celebrate day honouring their patron: Saint Kazimir Lists’ By Piotr Iosifov Vitebsk archive workers Grodno recently hosted are fi rst to introduce its traditional Kazyuki fair for electronic database to the tenth time: a true spring research family trees holiday. Already, it is an im- Researchers and citizens portant event in the culture interested in fi nding out the of our three neighbouring history of their family will nations. fi nd the database useful. In Th e fair dates from four recent years, people’s inter- centuries ago, when it began est in genealogy has grown, as a public holiday, explains so Vitebsk’s archive workers the Deputy Chair of the have decided to signifi cantly Grodno City Executive Com- simplify search methods, ac- mittee, Irina Senchenkova. celerating performance and “Every year, the popularity raising effi ciency. Over the last of our fair grows, as does the fi ve years, the State Archives of number of participants. Ini- the Vitebsk Region has been tially, only a few dozen mas- logging documents relating to ters attended. Th ree years ago, biographical information onto over a hundred came to dem- its ‘Nominal Lists’ electronic onstrate their works and, this database, recording regional year, we welcomed about 200 archives. “Now, archive em- masters from Grodno, Minsk, ployees receiving inquiries on Vitebsk, Gomel, Slonim, Lida, a person can enter the surname Smorgon, Ostrovets and other into the database, immediately cities.
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