Yad Vashem today is in a situation similar to that of 19th-century England—having started the Industrial Revolution, its machines became outdated before those of other countries who had started their industrial development later. Yad Vashem’s database, online since 2004, was […]
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Databases and Free-Text Searches: Some Advantages and Disadvantages
“Life is much richer than the structure of a database,” Jacek Leociak. In my capacity as deputy directory of Yad Vashem’s reference and information service, I observe that many genealogists do not realize that limiting their research to […]