2023 Polish Genealogy Conference Schedule
Friday, October 20th, 2023
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5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Opening Remarks |
TIME |
SPEAKER |
LECTURE TITLE |
| 5:30 – 6:45 | Jonathan D. Shea and Matthew Bielawa | Part I – Introduction to Polish and Eastern European Family History |
| 7:00 – 8:15 | Jonathan D. Shea and Matthew Bielawa | Part II – Introduction to Polish and Eastern European Family History |
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
| 9:10 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. Opening Remarks |
TIME |
SPEAKER |
LECTURE TITLE |
| 9:30 – 10:45 | Thomas Sadauskas | How to Read Arrival Ship Manifests and the Information/ Notations Added After the Immigrant Arrived in the United States |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Dr. Mieczyslaw B. Biskupski | Television and Film: Hollywood Invents the Pole |
| 12:20 – 12:40 – Break | ||
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Thomas Sadauskas | Finding your Family’s Ancestral Village in Eastern Europe Using Maps, Gazetteers and Other Sources |
| 2:15 – 3:30 | Denise Kolesar | Canadian Census Records |
Saturday, October 28th, 2023
| 9:10 – 9:25 a.m. Opening Remarks |
TIME |
SPEAKER |
LECTURE TITLE |
| 9:30 – 10:45 | Kinga Urbanska | Galician Records and How to Read Them |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Daniel Bućko | Researching Catholic Church Dispensation Records as a Genealogical Resource |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Break | |
| 12:45 – 2:00 | Lisa Alzo | Diseases, Disasters, Distress: Bad for Your Ancestors, Good for Genealogy! |
| 2:15 – 3:30 | Daniel Bućko | Researching Registers of Permanent Population (Księgi ludności stałej) as a Genealogical Resource |
| 3:45 | Awarding of Conference Prizes |
All attendees will be entered in the drawing Winner needs not be present |
