Come join PGSNYS as we celebrate Polish culture and heritage at the 46th annual Polish American Arts Festival in Cheektowaga, New York! The festival is FREE, and offers an old-school vibe in a family-friendly environment, with something for everyone!...

PGSNYS is thrilled to announce the completion of our ongoing project to digitize Buffalo's Polish newspaper, the Dziennik dla Wszystkich and make images freely accessible via the NYS Historic Newspapers website! A total of 15,648 issues covering the period from 17...

Earlier this spring, Special Projects Committee Chair, Charles Penasack, announced some new additions that were scheduled to be added to our databases of indexed historical records. Those records are now available! Specifically, we added: Corpus Christi Roman Catholic...

Our June meeting featured Buffalo City Planner and preservationist, Chris Hawley, whose presentation introduced, "Casimer Mazurek and the Great Steel Strike of 1919." Casimer "Charles" Mazurek was a 26-year-old decorated World War I veteran who was born in what is now...

Our May meeting featured Polish genealogist, Tadeusz Pilat, MLIS, AG®, who presented the lecture, "Using Online Map Resources and Cadastral maps of Poland." Tadeusz provided a brief history of the Josephinian and Franciscan land surveys on which the tax system in 19th...

We hope our members enjoyed our Spring 2025 issue of the Searchers, which was delivered in early April in electronic and hard copy form. This latest issue has been uploaded to the Members Only section of the website, where members have exclusive access...

At our April meeting, PGSNYS President Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz presented an introduction to the Polish genealogy website Genealogia w Archiwach (Genealogy in the Archive), demonstrating how it can be used primarily as digital archive to browse unindexed scans,...

Our March meeting last week featured Roxanne Bocyck, an author from Syracuse, New York, who presented "Genealogical Research and Storytelling." Roxanne shared the research and writing process she used in crafting her novel, Catherine's Dream: A Story of Spirit and...

PGSNYS is proud to announce that we have completed the digitization of previously unavailable local editions of the Dziennik dla Wszystich newspaper! Thanks to crucial support provided by a grant of $2,500 from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Arts & Culture Initiative,...

Following the loss of PGSNYS Vice-President, Maureen Gleason, on January 20, 2025, our Board was left with a vacancy. Article V Section 7 of our bylaws states, "Should any officer’s position become vacant prior to the end of the elected term, the Board of Directors in...