[Cz-L] Website updates

Greetings Czernowitzers!

Jane Reifer suggested some time ago that we add to the home page the
different spellings of 'Czernowitz' in various languages and alphabets. Also
she suggested that the longitude/latitude be included. We now have most of
it on the page under the map at: http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org

Peter Elbau provided the Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Romanian alphabet
versions of Czernowitz, and Bruce Reich, your fearless leader did up the
table. We would like to find a German 'gothic' version; a Hebrew version; a
Polish version; and a Hungarian version (realizing the last two are
primarily Latin alphabets with diacrytical marks like the Romanian version)
to complete the table. You can send them directly to me. Hmmm... now I
wonder if the Hebrew would be different than the Yiddish?

Jane was also working to get JewishGen to put a link into our website, and
it looks like she has won the battle. If you go to:
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Ukraine.html and towards the bottom of
the page, where they list 'Off-site Resources', we are the second
Czernowitz listing. Clicking on it brings you to our site. Bruce reports an
increase in list subscriptions at about the same time as the link went in,
so it was worth the trouble, methinks.

I'm getting tired of looking at that map on the home page, so if you have
any graphical 'Czernabillia' (now there's a new word) that you think might
be a suitable replacement the Bukovina-1875 map, feel free to send it along.

Simon Kreindler has updated Spreadsheet #1 (this is the third version), and
it appears in the download section as usual. I've been updating Lucca's page
as we go along, and Mariette Gutherz's page has been updated (both in the
List Member's Pages section).

Finally, I have found a German version of the 1910 Romanian Ethnographic
map(s) of Bukovina and put it up in the maps section:
http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/maps/image10.htm This is a full colour
version with better resolution than the two separate Romanian maps. It's
quite gem. As an aside, the reference line dividing East and West (where
zero degrees longitude is) is not Greenwich, but rather there are two
scales: on the top of the map it's degrees east of 'Ferro' in the Canary
Islands, and on the bottom it's degrees east of Paris. You learn something
every day on this job <g>.

Remember, we're always looking for things for the website, so get out those
old shoe boxes, steamer trunks, and photo albums, and send me some stuff.

Best,
jerome
Received on 2004-03-26 07:55:22