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PGSA Books Index to the Obituaries and Death Notices appearing in the Dziennik Chicagoski, is available as a set of 4 volumes, covering 1900 through 1930. These works have approximately 80,000 names of individuals whose obituary or death notice was published in the Dziennik Chicagoski, Chicago's leading Polish newspaper. If you have any family ties with Chicago, these volumes are a tremendous help in finding relatives and family members in Polonia's largest Polish community. This 4 volume set is available from PGSA for the package price of US$25.00 + $4.00 shipping and handling. 2007 PGSA Conference Syllabus US $15.00 picked up, US $18.50 with S&H 1. Polish Parish Records of the Roman Catholic Church: Their use and understanding in Genealogical Research (New Edition), by Gerald A. Ortell The PGSA has expanded and updated one of the first and most widely praised references for Polish genealogical research. It discusses baptismal, marriage and death records in detail and lists names, occupations, causes of death, Polish Saints' days, and much more. This excellent, in-depth book will help you understand and translate parish entries. Published 1996, 112 typeset pp., perfect bound soft cover, 8à x 11"............................. US $12.00 2. Roman Catholic Parishes in the Polish People's Republic in 1984, by Lidia Mullerowa (English version edited by Stanley R. Schmidt and William F. Hoffman). This book helps in locating parishes in modern Poland, an essential part of finding baptismal, marriage, and death certificates. It shows the diocese and deanery to which each parish belongs, and it is useful for writing to a parish or diocesan archive in Poland. There are 58 b&w maps, an 88-page index of towns and villages shown on the maps, and a guide to the names of Polish parishes. Published 1995, 157 + xi pp., 8à x 11 "................US $20.00 3. The Latin Church in the Polish Commonwealth in 1772, by Stanislaw Litak The maps and index of this book identify approximately 6,500 parishes and branch churches of the Latin rite in Poland before the first partition in 1772. It also encompasses Silesia, Moldavia and the Duchy of Courland. Published 1990, 48 pages, along with 24 fold-out maps, 8à x 11".................................US $17.00 4. Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition, by William F. Hoffman The first half consists of 12 chapters explaining the origins and meanings of Polish surnames. The second half is an index of some 30,000 common surnames, organized by the roots they came from, with indication of how many Polish citizens bore each name as of 1990. Published 1997, 592 typeset pp. (xii + 580), perfect bound, paperback, 6 x 9". ............US $25.00 5. First Names of the Polish
Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings, by William F.
Hoffman and George W. Helon 6. The Map Book Set This set includes both the Roman Catholic Parishes in the Polish People's Republic in 1984, by Lidia Mullerowa (English version edited by Stanley R. Schmidt and William F. Hoffman) and The Latin Church in the Polish Commonwealth in 1772, by Stanislaw Litak The Combined set price............US $35.00 7. Index to the Obituaries and Death Notices Apearing in the JEDNOSC-POLONIA 1926-1946, by Tomas L. Hollowak The Jednosc-Polonia was a weekly Polish-language newspaper published in Baltimore. This index is arranged alphabetically by surname and may contain information about clubs or organizations the deceased belonged to, place and/or date of birth and surviving family members. Supplies are limited so order quickly. ..............................US $9.00
8. GOING HOME: A Guide to Polish American Family History, Research by Jonathan D. Shea New and expected in the future. 9. In Their Words - Polish and Russian, By Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman PGSA is now selling these acclaimed translation guides. Written with the Polish genealogists in mind, they reproduce and analyze in detail dozens of documents in Polish and Russian. These are the kinds of documents your research is likely to turn up - and not just birth, marriage, and death records, but also passports, obituaries, population registers, military service records, and so on. In addition, each book gives information on the language's alphabet, spelling, pronounciation, and standard handwriting; lists of thousands of of the terms most often encountered in documents; information on how to locate records in American and Europe; a series of maps illustrating the history of Poland; and a whole chapter on using gazateers to locate your ancestral villages and thus determine which archives are likely to have documents relating to your family, along with contact information for those archives and help writing letters to them.
The Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego, (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland) is a 12 volume gazetteer that was published between 1880 to 1902 under the direction of Filip Sulimierski. . ..........US $ 25.00
The terms found in this work are the ones seen as the most common causes of death in 18th and 19th century Europe and America. There is an appended list of common terms found as causes of death in German, Latin, Polish, and Russian. 16 pp. 8à x 11" ..................................US $3.50 2. Essentials in Polish Genealogical Research, by Daniel M. Schlyter This brief booklet serves as an excellent introduction to Polish research. It is particularly helpful in showing how to use the resources of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (through local Family History Centers) to solve the problems that typically frustrate beginners. Published 1993, 12 typeset pp., paperback, 8à x 11"...............US $3.00 3. Make your own Genetic Family Tree, by Rosemary A. Chorzempa. This brief booklet describes the relationship of heredity traits in your family's genealogy. It also provides a Genetic Family Tree form for sample tabulations of your data. Published 1996, 8pp., 8à x 11" ...................US $2.00
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2. Maps Packet (21 pages)..............................US $3.00 Contains:
3. Military Packet (15 pages)..........................US $ 3.00 Contains information on:
4. Translation Packet (19 pages)......................US $3.00 Contains:
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