JewishGen has added hundreds of thousands of indexed records to its database in the past year, with much of that increase attributable to records from Ukraine being indexed. And that's great. (It also means you should be doing searches regularly, because of the scope and frequency of records being indexed and added to JewishGen.) But don't just stop with the information from the index index--and I'll demonstrate why.
The Zubkis family seems to have been unusually mobile compared to other branches of my family. So while I've been able to find records for Zubkis (and Zubkov and the like) relatives by manually reading through record books in towns where I know they lived, it also means that sometimes they surprise me by popping up in indexed records where I hadn't looked. I regularly search for an exact match to z*bk* on JewishGen and then take a close look at the results. Here's one such result:
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| Index to Zlata Zubko's 1841 Birth; JewishGen's Ukraine Database |
