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Date(s) - 06/11/2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Summary: This presentation will review the many ways to create, publish, and distribute a family history book in the digital age. It will also focus on ways to produce the text and incorporate graphics interestingly into the book. The presentation is filled with many practical examples based on Jay’s recent publication of Only Two Places: Poland & Buffalo – A History of One New York Family. The nearly 400-page book culminates his more than forty years of research. His 100% Polish family roots come from all three partitions of what is now Poland. They all immigrated to Buffalo, New York at the turn of the 20th century.
About our speaker: Jay Biedny has been a decades-long member of both the PGSNYS and the Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA). Since moving to Minnesota almost 40 years ago he has been a member of, and held offices in, the Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota (PGSMN) including its President. His roots in Poland center north of Poznań in the German Partition and east of Nowy Sącz in Austrian Galicia. Jay has Russian Partition relatives also who lived along the Vistula River north of Mielec. He has written columns on Polish genealogy for local publications, authored history pieces for genealogical websites, and presented talks at local and regional genealogical events.
Jay Biedny