I Found My Village! Now What?: Next Steps in Tracing Polish Ancestors

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Part of our First Friday lecture series 
Presented by Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz
Friday, May 6, noon-1:00 pm 
NEHGS, 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Finding—and confirming—the place of origin for a Polish ancestor can be challenging, but it’s essential to your research. Speaker Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz, will first review how to locate an ancestor’s birthplace using church records, naturalization papers, passenger lists, military documents, and more. She’ll then discuss the next steps in your research: confirming that you have the correct village; locating the parish and diocese; obtaining birth, marriage, and death records; and exploring Polish records. Ms. Szczepankiewicz will rely heavily on online sources throughout her presentation and show you how you can trace your Polish ancestry without having to cross the ocean!

About the speaker: Ms. Szczepankiewicz has been actively engaged in genealogical research since 1999 and specializes in Poland, Germany, the United States, and Canada. She is the administrator for the Polish Genealogy group on Facebook, which offers research assistance and record translations for beginning and intermediate researchers investigating their Polish ancestry. Her article, "The Insider's Guide to Geneteka" (co-authored with Maciej Adam Markowski) was published recently in the Winter issue of the PGSA journal Rodziny.