The Society’s newsletter, Searchers, is published three times per year—in April, August, and December. It features Society news and updates, along with member-submitted articles on genealogy, Polish history, and Polish-American communities, with a special focus on Western New York.
If you would like to contribute an article or share your family history research, please email us at searchers@pgsnys.org.
Access Note:
Issues from the past five years are available to members only. These are marked with an asterisk (*) below and can be accessed through the Member Access page.
Past issues of Searchers are listed below.
Issue 01 (Summer 1989)
Issue 02 (Winter 1989)
Issue 03 (Summer 1990)
Issue 04 (Winter 1990)
Issue 05 (Summer 1991)
Issue 06 (Winter 1991)
Issue 07 (Summer 1992)
Issue 08 (Winter 1993)
Issue 09 (Summer 1993)
Issue 10 (Spring 1994)
Issues 11&12 (Summer & Winter 1994)
Issue 13 (Summer 1995)
Issue 14 (Winter 1995)
Issue 15 (Summer 1996)
Issue 16 (Winter 1996)
Issue 17 (Spring 1997)
Issue 18 (Summer 1997)
Issue 19 (Winter 1997)
Issue 20 (Spring 1998)
Issue 21 (Fall 1998)
Issue 22 (Spring 1999)
Issue 23 (Fall 1999)
Issue 24 (Winter 1999)
Issue 25 (Spring 2000)
Issue 26 (Fall 2000)
Issue 27 (Winter 2000)
Issues 28&29 (Spring & Summer 2001)
Issue 30 (Winter 2001)
Issue 31 (Spring 2002)
Issue 32 (Fall 2002)
Issue 33 (Winter 2002)
Issue 34 (Spring 2003)
Issue 36 (Winter 2003)
Issue 37 (Spring 2004)
Issues 38&39 (Summer & Winter 2004)
Issue 40 (Issue 1 2005)
Issue 41 (Summer/Winter 2005)
Issue 42 (Spring 2006)
Issue 44 (Winter 2006)
Issue 45 (Summer 2007)
Issue 46 (Fall 2007)
Issue 47 (Spring 2008)
Issue 48 (Fall 2008)
Issue 49 (Winter 2008)
Issue 50 (Spring 2009)
Issue 51 (Summer 2009)
Issue 52 (Winter 2009)
Issue 53 (Spring 2010)
Issue 54 (Summer 2010)
Issue 55 (Winter 2010)
Issue 56 (Spring 2011)
Issue 57 (Summer 2011)
Issue 58 (Winter 2011)
Issue 59 (Spring 2012)
Issue 60 (Summer 2012)
Issue 61 (Winter 2012)
Issue 62 (Spring 2013)
Issue 63 (Summer 2013)
Issue 64 (Winter 2013)
Issue 65 (Spring 2014)
Issue 66 (Summer 2014)
Issue 67 (Winter 2014)
Issue 68 (Spring 2015)
Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
Issue 71 (Spring 2016)
Issue 72 (Summer 2016)
Issue 73 (Winter 2016)
Issue 74 (Spring 2017)
Issue 75 (Summer 2017)
Issue 76 (Winter 2017)
Issue 77 (Spring 2018)
Issue 78 (Summer 2018)
Issue 79 (Winter 2018)
Issue 80 (Spring 2019)
Issue 81 (Summer 2019)
Issue 82 (Winter 2019)
Issue 83 (Spring 2020)
Issue 84 (Summer 2020)
Issue 85 (Winter 2020)
Issue 86 (Spring 2021)
Issue 87 (Summer 2021)*
Issue 88 (Winter 2021)*
Issue 89 (Spring 2022)*
Issue 90 (Summer 2022)*
Issue 91 (Winter 2022)*
Issue 92 (Spring 2023)*
Issue 93 (Summer 2023)*
Issue 94 (Winter 2023)*
Issue 95 (Spring 2024)*
Issue 96 (Summer 2024)*
Issue 97 (Winter 2024)*
Issue 98 (Spring 2025)*
Issue 99 (Summer 2025)*
Issue 100 (Winter 2025)*
Issue 101 (Spring 2026)*
*Issue must be accessed from the Members Access page.
Searching the Archive
These back issues of Searchers are a valuable resource for connecting with others researching the same surnames or families.
You can search all issues using Google. For example, to find references to the surname Zielinski, type the following into the Google search box:
zielinski filetype:pdf site:pgsnys.online
This tells Google to search for the name Zielinski in all PDF issues on our website.
Capitalization and diacritics do not matter—searching for Zieliński will return the same results as zielinski.