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original files are retained, and older pages are modernized only where doing so adds value without damaging their historical content.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.
LEMKO.org and LemkoHUB
LEMKO.org remains the historical and cultural archive. LemkoHUB is the current home for music and audiovisual presentation.
The archive has a history too
From the first years of LEMKO.org in 1996, through the field-documentation years after 2005, to today's preservation and LemkoHUB work, the character of the archive reflects nearly three decades of changing technology and changing opportunities to document Lemko life.
Read: Three Eras of LEMKO.org →