This website documents the research and family tree for the surname KOSBAB, based on the Kosbab family that emigrated to Australia from England in 1952.
This is my favourite picture of the Kosbab family (left to right) top row – Michael, George, Doris, Derek, bottom row – Wendy and Brian (me) taken on Christmas Day 1960 in Richmond Victoria.
The oldest reference I can find to this website (kosbab.org) is dated 14th December 1999, when the web site address www.kosbab.org was registered.
The website has enjoyed many variations and links to some long-forgotten websites but remains steadfast in it’s original aim:
Trace the origins of the surname “KOSBAB”
I have to admit being a little taken back in March 2013, when looking for a friend on Twitter, I typed in kosbab for curiousity sake and shocked to find not one or two (as there were when I started), but hundreds of Kosbab’s. I’ve always known there were lots of Kosbab’s, many in America, but with so many shows they are now far and wide across the world.
We’ve joined the 21st Century and now on Twitter, so come and say hello. Now I’m not suggesting we tweet regularly, but when something interesting pops up, we tweet it.
It does not change our original aim = where did the KOSBAB name originate from?
For the Kosbab who arrives here, and does not want to trawl through the many pages that have been created over the years, here are a couple of worthy-mentions:
- The oldest Kosbab reference we can find comes from Poland/Germany in 1865.
- Most research on this web site relates to Kosbab’s from England and Australia.
If you hunt through the original web site pages linked below, you will find some interesting information about the Kosbab family and its origins.
- Research – News
- Research – Germany & Poland
- Research – Hungary
- Research – United States
- Research – United Kingdom
- Research – Australia
- Research – Archive
Genealogy Research
Background
The research and data found on this website is managed using the following software:
- Ancestry.com
- Family Tree Maker
- FooGallery
- RootsPersona
- WordPress (website)
2013 – New Web Site
One of the benefits of being a nerdy web designer is knowing what is achiveable in web site terms. I’ve known for some time the benefits of WordPress as software for a web site, but in 2013 I discovered there is now a plugin that supposedly imports a GEDCOM file and will display a family tree.
As I have been using Family Tree Maker software to update and create a new family tree from the one that has been online (since Adam was a a boy.. Adam as in Adam and Eve), then I know it can create a GEDCOM file and provided the plugin does what it says it can do, then we have an up-to-date family tree and web site, so stay tuned, I am working on it right now.
Something else that is good, as well as being important is that all our existing internal links will continue to work, because the old web site is still there, along with the old family tree.
2023 – Hacked Web Site
For the life of me I do not understand the motives of hackers! Why would anyone bother to hack into a website that does nothing more than show genealogy research?
It’s taken me hundreds of hours shutting down the hacked site, moving the bones to a new host, resurrect the family tree and research, import images into the gallery, manually re-create the pages (like this one) and then lock it all down securely so that it can’t be hacked again.
