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Highlights!What You Missed - May Meeting!"The program for the May meeting, held at the Polish Museum of America, was presented by Cynthia Piech, National Genealogical Society member, PGSA member and genealogical speaker. Her topic for the program was “Genealogical Societies in Poland”. There has been a great deal of interest lately in family history by citizens of Poland. Cynthia explained that their new prosperity has allowed more time to pursue hobbies especially by those aged 50 and over. Many genealogical societies have been started and most have websites available for research here in the U.S. Unfortunately most of the sites are in Polish. If one does not read or write Polish she suggested using the Google Chrome web browser to access these sites. Google Chrome has built in language translation tools that can be used to convert Polish to English. This can be extremely useful when using the site forums. These forums allow messages and questions to be shared through the site without the use of e-mail. Cynthia said that one can read messages on a forum but in most cases must be registered on the site to write messages. Registration is generally free and available to anyone. The genealogical societies in Poland exist at all levels: national, provincial and city/county. The national one, the Polish Genealogical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne) www.genealodzy.pl has many useful features on its website including a list of Polish cities and their parishes, a forum, databases and many web links. Cynthia suggested checking their site map to start. The provincial and city society websites allow researching specific locales and contain a great deal of indexed information. The genealogy societies in Poland generally have dues paying members, sponsor a website including a forum and have regular meetings. They can always use contributions to help fund their projects. 35th Annual Conference Registration, “Up and Running"We invite you to join us September 13 and 14 at our anniversary conference held at the Hilton Hotel in Lisle and share in the fruits of the seeds our founders planted 35 years ago. The program is structured to satisfy the skilled researcher as well as the novice and to explain the use of some of the amazing tools that technology now offers. Speakers’ topics and schedule are now on our website so you can review them and decide which subjects fulfill your needs: research in Poland—Thomas Nitsch, technological wonders—Thomas MacEntee, the impact of history on your ancestors’ lives—Ola Heska or hands-on guidance in pursuing information on the internet—Ceil Jensen. Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, 3rd edition, is available in our bookstoreThe long wait is finally over. From Abel to Żyżyński, this new edition includes nearly twice as many names, many of linguistic origin other than Polish-- Czech, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and others. Go to our Bookstore for more information and to order your copy now! We have 2 versions of the book. Version 1 is a 2 book set at a cost of $50.00 ($45 PGSA member price) Version 2 is a book and CD for $35.00 ($31.50 PGSA member price). If you are ordering through our online bookstore Online Bookstore and you are a PGSA member, you need to make sure you have an account in the bookstore and notify us that you are a PGSA member. Note: you must wait for the bookstore site to update your account before you will see your discount. The speed at which this happens depends on how quickly I can get to my computer to update your store account. If you are entitled to a member discount, please do not complete your order until your account has been updated and you see your discount. If you prefer to order by mail, you can download the mail-in order form from our website Mail In Order Form Your order will be shipped via media mail and will take approximately 1 week – 10 days,depending on your location. 35th PGSA August 11 Meeting and Lecture"“Swab Your Cheek: How to Make the Most of DNA Kinship Results” Plan to join us at the Polish Museum of America, August 11, 2013. Guest Lecturer Marsha Peterson-Maass will help us make sense of today’s three commercially available DNA tests (mtDNA, Y-DNA and nucDNA), which ancestral lines of descent each test applies to, and what your current options are for networking to find DNA kinship matches (including the accredited method for preparing your Pedigree Charts to share on those networking databases). We’ll even take a look at real life DNA results and the kinship networking opportunities they have revealed. Topics are covered from the Fundamentals of Genealogy: Medical Family Tree Workbook and Fundamentals of Genealogy: Basics for Everyone . . . textbooks are distributed before the lecture so participants can peruse them during the lecture and can optionally purchase to take home for $20/each (this price is a 20% discount). Reminders!Genealogy Fridays – Polish Research Help at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library PGSA board member Steve Szabados is a genealogy volunteer at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library and he will be available for Polish research questions and help on Friday mornings from 9 AM to 12 PM. Whether you are just starting your research or trying to solve a “brick wall,” Steve should be able to help. Be sure to add the Notebook's email address Be sure to add the Notebook's email address pgsanotebook@gmail.com to your address book or "safe senders" list as soon as you subscribe to the Notebook so it will be delivered directly to your in box. If you cannot find your monthly issue of the Notebook, be sure to check your "junk mail" or spam box for your email account. If you continue to have difficulty receiving the Notebook, contact your Internet Service Provider about the issue directly New Membership — Apply and Pay Online For a new PGSA membership, click on the link to complete an online Membership Application and pay online: Online New Member Application PGSA Forum is Back Online - How do I log In? The original PGSA forum hosted by Delphi Forums has been transfered back to PGSA ownership. Delphi maintains robust safegards to ensure our Forum is protected fromhackers and other obnoxious characters. When you visit the forum you will be prompted to log in to the Delphi Forum system. You may choose the user name and password of your choice and if you so elect Delphi will remember it for you so your next visit will merely be a click. The log in protects you from spammers and assorted mal-contents and Delphi will not use your information or send you advertizing unless you permit them to do so. PGSA members Al Wierzba and Jim Piechorowski will share the duties of Forum Moderators. So drop by and share information, questions or assist other members in thier family journey: PGSA Forum. What's New on the Website?Polish Immigrants to the Midwest This database will remain in the public section Databases – Regional of the site for sixty days to expose it to the largest audience possible. We have been trying to identify a vehicle for members to share family information with each other with minimal success. The database is a compromise effort. This work began in 1995 as an endeavor to document the roots of my ancestors from the various partitions of 18th century Poland to St Joseph County, Indiana. The current file contains over 29,000 records and is updated monthly as additions occur. Since I came from a family of twelve plus children on either side my base family became huge over the years, multi ethnic, residing across the mid-west. The user of this data will find German, Pole, Hungarian, Belgian, Greek and Italian families from a number of states traced as near to their European origins as possible. Many good people have taken the time to send me extensions to the many families identified and have corrected my work when necessary. They are all credited for their contributions and I encourage any user to contribute “new families” and / or correct my work as the spirit moves you. New data may be sent to jamespiech@aol.com for entry. Let me know if you want your name and / or email credited in the record. Remember in 60 days this DB will migrate to “Members Only” Jim Piechorowski PGSA Web Chair Jubilee Book Indexes, January 2013 Additional Jubilee book indexes have been uploaded and are now online. We now have 550,658 individual records from 555 books. We'd like to thank Ken Nowakowski, Jennifer Wellman, Deloris Cieslewicz, Barbara Bieszczat and Karen Johanson for their continued dedication, perseverance and support of our Society by working on these indexes.
Members Only - Immigrant Marriage Database - New Additions, November 2012 This database of Catholic Marriages in Northern Indiana has been expanded by approximately 1300 marriages performed at:
Limited information is available to the public. PGSA members have access to all the fields in the members only area of our website. Members Only - Immigrant Family Tree's Database - New Additions, August 2012 This expanded index contains the family histories of (487) immigrant families to St. Joseph County & surrounding counties in Indiana, Michigan & Illinois. In each case the files contain the town, village or county of origin in Europe allowing access by the researcher to Church records indexed by the LDS. The objective of this historical database is to identify family birth origin not complete histories of the individual family. |
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