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Preserving Lemko heritage online

About the Archive

A website begun in 1996 has itself become part of the historical record.

LEMKO.org

Nearly three decades of accumulated material

LEMKO.org was established on September 5, 1996. Over the years it grew from a hand-built website into a large digital repository of Lemko history, photographs, documents, maps, genealogy, language material, scholarship and community memory.

The remaster begun in 2026 gives visitors a modern entrance while deliberately preserving the older archive underneath. Long-standing URLs remain useful, original files are retained, and older pages are modernized only where doing so adds value without damaging their historical content.

1996 — LEMKO.org begins

The site goes online during the early public-Web era.

1996–2026 — the archive grows

Thousands of pages, photographs, publications, recordings and documents accumulate across changing generations of web technology.

2026 — a new front door

The homepage and major section entrances are remastered for modern computers and phones while the historical archive remains intact.

Two complementary projects

LEMKO.org and LemkoHUB

LEMKO.org remains the historical and cultural archive. LemkoHUB is the current home for music and audiovisual presentation.

Visit LemkoHUB on YouTube →

Preservation comes before cleanup. Older pages, unusual character encodings and obsolete media formats are not automatically deleted simply because modern browsers handle them poorly. Unique historical material should first be identified and, where worthwhile, given modern access copies.