Ariel PARKANSKY
Ariel Parkansky is an Information Systems Engineer. He has brought professional and managerial skills to JewishGen’s Ukraine SIG as new Web Manager. Ariel previously became Ukraine SIGs Odessa Town Leader. In addition, he is responsible for the Odessa KehilaLinks website (http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa) which he has completely restructured. He is adding significant new data and other content, including translations of various Odessa Directories. Before becoming Odessa Town Leader, he organized a project to collect, translate, and publish Odessa vital records obtained by individual researchers. Previously, he was part of the project for the Museum of the Jewish Colonies website in Argentina.
Ariel began researching his family roots in the late 1990s and later
added his wife's family to his research. His family comes originally
from Bessarabia and Ukraine. They immigrated to Argentina at the turn
of the 20th century. He grew up in Buenos Aires and has lived in Paris, France since 2003.
His family forest numbers 1,550 individuals of whom about 700 are living today in 18 different countries on 4 continents. His family genealogy website contains more than 700 pictures and documents going back in some cases to the 17th century. You can visit it at: www.thefamilytree.com.ar.
HIS / HER CONFERENCES
15/07/2012 - The revitalization of the Ukraine SIG website - Ukraine , Softwares