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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
