Thanks to all who attended last night's meeting with our special guest, Prof. Mateusz Wyżga, who presented the lecture, "Polish Peasants: From Genealogy to Total History." We had a wonderful turnout, and Prof.'s Wyżga's lecture was fascinating! The recording, chat,...

We're excited to announce the culmination of our multi-year project to improve access to the Polak w Ameryce, a popular Polish-language newspaper published in Buffalo, New York, between 1887 and 1920. Our Polak w Ameryce project began in the late 1990s under former...

As a reminder to all our members, an increase in membership dues was approved at our September members’ meeting. Dues are now $30 per year. In order to effect this change, all automatic renewals were cancelled, so that members can renew their memberships at the...

We at PGSNYS are looking forward to another successful year of sharing and preserving Polish history and heritage in New York State, and assisting our members and the general public with Polish genealogical research. We are here to serve you, so if you're interested...

If you haven't checked out our databases in a while, you're in for a treat! We've recently added approximately 80,000 new indexed entries to help you find your family in historical records. New or recently expanded collections include the following: Corpus Christi...

Buffalo, NY – The Polish Genealogical Society of New York State (PGSNYS) has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Louis Skalny Foundation to digitize never-before-microfilmed editions of the Dziennik dla Wszystkich (Everybody’s Daily), the major Polish-language...