Last Thursday’s PGSNYS membership meeting, “Research Night: Breaking Through Our Members’ Brick Walls,” featured an interactive panel discussion format similar to the one that was such a hit at our August 2025 meeting. Members were invited to submit their “brick wall”...

Our first meeting of the year featured speaker Tom Sadauskas, who introduced members and guests to Genealogy Research in Lithuania. Tom began with a concise historical overview, explaining that although Lithuania was founded in the 13th century, its history has been...

Last week’s November meeting offered newcomers to Polish genealogy an excellent introduction to Geneteka, the widely used database of Polish vital records. Our speaker, Kasia Dane, is a long-time genealogical and family researcher who has indexed roughly half a...

Celebrating Polish American Heritage Month with “The Four Seasons in Folk Culture in Poland” Our October meeting honored Polish American Heritage Month with a captivating presentation, “The Four Seasons in Folk Culture in Poland,” by Polish ethnographer Justyna...

Last night's September meeting featured a presentation by author Michael Rizzo entitled, "Researching Buffalo's Polish Gangsters." Rizzo's informal, extemporaneous talk offered insight into the process he used to research John "Big Korney" Kwiatkowski and his fellow...

By now, our members should have received our Summer 2025 issue of the Searchers, which was delivered this month 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 to the...

Our August Meeting was a Research Night with the theme, "Breaking Through Our Members' Brick Walls." For this meeting, we solicited research questions from our members in advance, which we submitted to a panel of members who are experienced researchers. Our panelists...

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...