Our April meeting, held at Eugene V. Debs Hall, featured returning speaker Chris Hawley, who presented The Buffalo Belt Line: Hidden in Plain Sight. This engaging program explored how a largely overlooked railroad system played a central role in shaping Buffalo’s...
The Polish Genealogical Society of New York State will host its annual Polish Genealogy & Polonia Fair on Sunday, May 3, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the St. Stanislaus Adamski Social Center. This free, public event brings together individuals and...
Wednesday, April 29, 20267:00 PM (ET) | Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a special Zoom-only edition of our popular Research Night—an opportunity to learn from real member research challenges—and the strategies used to move them forward. This session will...
We hope our members are enjoying the Spring 2026 issue of Searchers, which was delivered in early April in both electronic and printed formats. This latest issue—Issue No. 101—has now been uploaded to the Members Only section of our website, where members have...
Our March meeting featured speaker Tadeusz H. Pilat, MLS, AG®, who presented Polish Census Records: Then and Now. The engaging program introduced members and guests to the many types of census and census-like records that can help genealogists trace ancestors in...
If you have Polish ancestors from Western New York, the PGSNYS databases are an indispensable—and often overlooked—research tool. We host 48 individual databases containing unique, indexed records you won’t find on Ancestry, FamilySearch, or other commercial...
