Newsletter Archives

• Our Time Has Come
• Researching Ethnic History in Connecticut: The Polish Question, Part I by Stanislaus Blejwas
• Polish Catholic Church Directories
• Book Review: PolAm: A History of the Polish Americans in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1862 – 1945 by Florence W. Clowes
• Parish Profiles: St. Joseph’s Church, Rockville, Connecticut
• Resources in Berkshire County, Massachusetts by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Columbia sailed from Glasgow on July 1, 1911, arrived in New York on July 9, 1911 (partial listing)

• Connecticut Naturalization Records Centralized
• Poem: Lost Values by Janina Davenport
• Latest Polish Gazetteers Issued: Wykaz Urzędowych Nazw Miejscowości w Polsce
• Research at the Massachusetts Health Department
• Roman Catholic Parishes of Northeastern Poland, Provinces of Łomża, Ostrolęka and Płock
• RUSSIAN ? Who Needs It?!
• French Connection: Frydery k Franciszek Chopin
• Researching Ethnic History in Connecticut: The Polish Question, Part II by Stanislaus Blejwas
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Lapland sailed from Antwerp on July 1, 1911, arrived in New York on July 10, 1911 (partial listing)

• New England Polonia – Where Are We???
• Parish Directory: Connecticut, Vermont and Western Massachusetts
• Famous Poles!
• The Polish Name Challenge! by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• Spreading the Word – Educational Outreach
• Boguty to Bristol and Back by Gerald Bogucki
• Diocese of Tarnów
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Vaderland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New York
on April 25, 1911 (partial listing)
• Researching Ethnic History in Connecticut: The Polish Question, Part IV by
Stanislaus Blejwas
• Map of Galicia and Its Present Day Borders

• Polish Archive Established in New Britain
• Polish Provincial Libraries
• Translating Polish Documents…It’s Not That Hard…Really!!!
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Erlanger sailed from Bremen June 1, 1913, arrived in
New York on June 16, 1913 (partial listing)
• Portrait of a Polish “Babcia” by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• Polonia in New England – Part II – New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island
• 58,000 Names on a Granite Wall. Polish Names from New England on the Vietnam
War Memorial in Washington, DC
• Poland’s Changing Borders

• Your Family’s Exact Place of Origin
• Polonia in Brazil
• You’ve Got a Friend in Pennsylvania…And Most Likely a Relative Too!
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Nekar sailed from Bremen, arrived in New York
on October 20, 1909, (partial listing)
• Translating Polish Language Documents: Marriage Records

• Nasze Polskie Nawiska
• Book Review: Polish Marriage Applicants, St. Joseph County, Indiana 1905-1915
compiled by Gene Szymarek and G. Lucky Ladewski
• Poles in Suffield, CT
• Diocesan Directory
• Memories of Broncia, “An Illegal Alien” by Constance M. Ochnio
• Polish Lineage in French Royalty by Joseph Maciora
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Vaterland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New York
on March 7, 1906 (partial listing)

• Polish Ancestry Data Base Created
• Book Indexes – A Supplement to Passenger Lists
• Sources in Suffolk County, Massachusetts by Joseph Maciora
• “You Should Go to School” by Albert Peterlin
• Austrian Military Records Helpful in Galician Research
• Notarial Records from Grodno
• Book Review: Genealogical Sources in the New York Metropolitan Area
edited by Estelle M. Guzik
• Polish Pioneer Project
• Polonia in the Garden State
• Wooden Bridge, Poland by Joanne Balon Kennedy

• Historic 1989 Tour Of Poland Concluded
• New York Cemetery Inscription Project Launched
• New Resource Center Additions
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Roon sailed from Bremen (no date), arrived
in New York on March 30, 1912 (partial listing)
• The Best And The Worst by Ann Marie Freeman
• Book Review: A Translation Guide To Nineteenth Century Polish-Language
Civil Registration Documents, 2nd ed. by Judith R. Frazin
• Polish Archival Guides
• Kamienica by Thomas J. Draus

• Connecticut’s First Polish Parish Celebrates its Centennial: Kościól Sw. Stanisława
Meriden, CT
• Ellis Island Visited by PGSCT Members
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Cincinnati sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New
York on May 20, 1912 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Prinz Frederick Wilhelm sailed from Bremen, arrived
in New York on September 3, 1911 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kalserin Auguste Victoria sailed from Hamburg,
arrived in New York on July 23, 1910 (partial listing)
• The Immigrant’s Journey on the Other Side: Before Ellis Island
• Polish Learned Societies – Untapped Resources
• News Items from the U.S.S.R. – Lwów – Zytomierz – Ukraine
• Regional Notes: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
• Book Review: For Bread with Butter: Life Worlds of East Central Europeans
in Johnstown, PA 1890-1940 by Ewa Morawska
• Book Review: An Historical Bibliography of Polish Towns, Villages, and Regions
(except Warsaw and Kraków), reprinted with an introduction by Edward A. Peckwas
• Austrian Census Returns 1869-1910 with Emphasis on Galicia

• Parish and Organizational Histories: Their Contents and Usefulness in Family
History Research
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Patricia sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New York
on February 16, 1913 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Bulow sailed from Bremen, arrived in New York on
December 20, 1912 (partial listing)
• Polish Geography – It’s Not Always as Simple as it Seems
• Policy Changes at the Onomastic Society in Kraków
• Official Place Name Changes
• Research in Brazil – Concrete Sources
• Lithuania: Research Notes And Developments – Some Surnames for Mejszagoła
• Białystok – Łomża Genealogical Study Group
• Social Security Death Master File

• Ecclesiastical Structure Reorganized in Poland Thirteen New Dioceses Created
• Kongresówka – “The Kingdom Of Poland”
• Don’t Let Suffixes Confuse You by Constance M. Ochnio
• Book Review: Nazwiska Polaków (Surnames of Poles) by Kazimierz Rymut
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Batavia sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New
York on April 14, 1907 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Patricia sailed from Cuxhaven, arrived in New
York on January 4, 1908 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kroonland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on June 23, 1910 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Zeeland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on September 20, 1909 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Rotterdam sailed from Rotterdam, arrived in New
York on August 4, 1913 (partial listing)
• Polonia Profile – Norwich, CT
• Gubernia of Siedlce
• Galician Migration and Church Attitudes
• Translating Polish-Language Obituaries

• Nasz Nowy Domek – PGSCT Resource Center and Archive Finds New Home
• Genealogical Tours to Poland: The Past – 1992 Tour
• Archdiocese of Tarnów Renovating its Archive
• Musings on a Trip to Poland by Greg Leck
• Pennsylvania Cemetery Adventures
• World War I Draft Registration Cards
• Tarnów Diocese Parishes
• The Keeping of Vital Statistics Records in the Austrian Partition
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Ryndam sailed from Rotterdam, arrived in New
York on September 1, 1913 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Nekar sailed from Bremen, arrived January 2, 1913
(partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Amerika sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New
York on February 9, 1907 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Gera sailed from Bremen, arrived in New York
on December 14, 1904 (partial listing)

• Polish Branch Archives
• For Beginners – Dla początkujących
• “Newer” Vital Records in the Białystok and Łomża Area
• Researching in Pittsburgh
• German Birth Certificate Translation Aid
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Ryndam sailed from Rotterdam on March 5, 1910,
arrived in New York on March 15, 1910 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kroonland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on July 6, 1909 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Barbarossa, sailed from Bremen, arrived in New
York on April 24, 1913 (partial listing)
• Polish-American Military Records Organized
• Business, Commercial and Other Directories Hold Genealogical Data
• Polish Immigration to Argentina
• Non-English New Englanders
• Exercise Caution When Looking for an Ancestor in the New York Passenger
List Index
• Help Tracing Poles in New Zealand by Michael Subritzky-Kusza
• Star Connections by Joseph Switajewski
• Use Phone Disc to Find People With Your Surname
• Book Review: The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches
by Loretto D. Szucs and Sandra H. Luebking

• 1994 – A Year of Anniversaries: Largest Polish Parish in New England is
100 Years Old; PGS of Connecticut is 10 Years Old by Jonathan Shea and
Constance M. Ochnio
• Slownik Geograficzny – Translations: Dąbrowa, Myszyniec and Wola
Raniżowska
• Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia by Brian J. Lenius
• Diocese of Lublin
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sailed from Hamburg,
arrived in New York on May 16, 1908 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sailed from Hamburg,
arrived in New York on May 26, 1907 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kaiser Wilhelm sailed from Bremen on October
17, 1911, arrived in New York on October 24, 1911 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS George Washington sailed from Bremen on November
16, 1912, arrived in New York on November 25, 1912 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Princess Alice sailed from Bremen on May 9, 1905,
arrived in New York on May 20, 1905 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kaiser Wilhelm sailed from Bremen on September 29,
1908, arrived in New York on October 6, 1908 (partial listing)
• History of Polish Parish in Salamanca, N.Y. is Published
• New Booklet Yields Data on Russian Research by Jonathan Shea and
Jacque Penstone
• Who’s Right? by Tom Kulesz
• PGS Represented at Meeting with Connecticut State Registrar of Vital Records
• Massachusetts Naturalization Records at the Massachusetts State Archives,
Boston, MA by Joseph G. V. Maciora

• Printed World War I Military Service Lists
• Those Dull and Boring Town Reports May Surprise You!
• The Poles of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania by John J. Was
• Short History of the Diocese of Włocławek
• Archival Holdings of Parishes in the Diocese of Włocławek
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Pennsylvania sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New
York on November 6, 1912 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Zeeland sailed from Liverpool, arrived in Boston
on April 27, 1910 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Lapland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New York
on May 17, 1914 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Friesland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on June 4, 1901 (partial listing)
• Address List of Roman Catholic Churches in Lithuania: A Guide for the Family
History Researcher compiled by Jonathan D. Shea
• Galician Genealogical Organizations by Brian J. Lenius
• Linguistic Corner: Adjectival Place Names
• Polish Learned Societies

• Linguistic Derivations of Polish First Names
• Computers + People = Database of Polish Names by Edward Schultz
• Book Review: U. S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources
by James C. Neagles
• Poland’s Ethnocultural Minorities in Present Times
• Geographical Data in Polish-American Catholic Church Records
• Linguistic Corner: A U.S. created Latin-language Marriage Entry
• “Just Tell Me What It Means!” by William F. Hoffman
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Bulgaria sailed from Hamburg, arrived in New
York on February 14, 1903 (partial listing)
• SS Blucher sailed from Hambury, arrived in New York in April, 1904
(partial listing)
• SS Zeeland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New York on August 21, 1912
(partial listing)
• Community Profile – Adams, Massachusetts
• Book Review: Migration from the Russian Empire, Lists of Passengers Arriving
at the Port of New York, Vol. 1, Jan. 1875-Sept. 1882, Vol. 2 Oct. 1882

• Gdańsk: Millenium 997-1997
• Razanauskas, Różanowski, Rozansky, Rogers, What?? – Linguistic Implications
Regarding Names from the Province of Wilno
• Civil Vital Records May Not be as Devoid of Geography as You Think by
C. M. Ochnio
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Columbia sailed from Glasgow, arrive in New
York on July 10, 1911 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Lapland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on July 10, 1011
• Linguistic Derivations of Polish First Names, Part III
• Tips for Translating Russian-Language Documents by Wiliam F. Hoffman
and Jonathan D. Shea
• From the Słownik Geograficzny: Galicia by Bronislaw Gustawicz

• Province of Grodno – Grodzieńska Gubernia
• Polonia in Wilmington, Delaware
• “Roll” Call – Passenger Ship Arrival Microfilm
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Niew Amsterday sailed from Rotterdam,
arrived in New York on July 10, 1911 (partial listing)
• Of Counts, Lords, Nobles, and Princes…or, Who Owned our Ancestors?
• Polish-Ukrainian Name Equivalents
• Linguistic Derivations of Polish First Names, Part IV
• Rhode Island State Archives
• Ellicott Street Cemetery, Salamanca, NY Documented

• Black Friday – December 6, 1907
• Jewish Registration Districts (Zydowskie Okręgi Metrykalne) in Galicia
• Learned Societies’ Journals – A Content Analysis
• World War I Massachusetts Military Source by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• (CE)M – TV! by J. M. Lawrence
• Featured Web Page
• Not Every Pole is a “-Ski” by Edward Schultz
• Lackawanna County, PA Record Locator
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kronprinzessin Cecillie sailed from Bremen, arrived
in New York on August 8, 1909 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Koeln sailed from Bremen, arrived in New York
on December 5, 1913 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Poland sailed from Bremen, arrived in New York
on August 3, 1900 (partial listing)
• Mini Gazeteers for Belarus
• Maps of Poland’s Changing Diocesan Boundaries
• Book Review: Dzieje Goniądza w 450 rocznicę praw miejskich (The History
of Goniądz on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the city charter) by
J. Kloza and J. Maroszek
• Revision Tax Lists – Now on Microfilm
• Linguistic Derivations of Polish First Names, Part VI
• Rhode Island Catholic Church Records
• Discovering Your Roots in Poland – Łukasz Bielecki, Poznań, Poland submitted
by Pat Smith
• Priest or Nun in the Family? by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• Publications on Religious Orders: Their Genealogical Content by Joseph G. V.
Maciora

• “Sweet Sixteen”
• Community Profile: Middletown, Connecticut
• Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics by J. Maciora
• Archival Odyssey by Christa Shukaitis
• Diocese of Chełmno and Pelpin
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Zeeland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New
York on June 7, 1909 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Zeeland sailed from Antwerp, arrived in New York
on May 29, 1912 (partial listing)
• National Archives – Mid-Atlantic Region (Philadelphia)
• Linguistic Derivations of Polish First Names, Part VII
• Archival Repositories in Wilno
• The Ethnic and Religious Structure of Eastern Galicia at the Turn of the
Century (1900)
• Peasant Costumes in the Rzeszów Area

• A Brief History of Vital Record-Keeping in Poland
• Lists of Pennsylvania Coal Miners by Joanne Kennedy
• Community Profile: Southington, Connecticut
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Bremen sailed from Bremen on May 13, 1911,
arrived in New York on May 22, 1911 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS George Washington sailed from Bremen on
August 2, 1911, arrived in New York on August 10, 1911 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS George Washington sailed from Bremen on May
2, 1914, arrived in New York on May 11, 1914 (partial listing)
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Grosser Kurfurst sailed from Bremen on May 23, 1914,
arrived in New York on June 2, 1914 (partial listing)
• Free Lunch in Cyberspace – Who Pays? – A Cautionary Note for Genealogists
by Stuart Nixon
• Białystok Archival Guide
• Jaworzec
• A Message from Your Data Coordinators by Matthew Bielawa

• Polonia in New Haven, Connecticut
• How’s This For a Mistake?
• Hamburg Departure Lists On-Line
• Name Changes by Jonathan D. Shea
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Dresden departed Bremen and arrived in Baltimore
on July 26, 1898
• SS President Lincoln departed Hamburg and arrived in New York on May 30, 1912
• SS Graf Waldersee departed Hamburg on May 15, 1911 and arrived in New York
on May 28, 1914
• SS Lapland departed Antwerp and arrived in New York on April 21, 1921
• First Member of the Millenium
• First Babies of the Old Millenium
• New Britain Sesquicentennial
• Rhode Island Cemeteries Progress Report
• New York Metro Area Naturalization Records

• A Tale of One Register: A Detailed Look at an Early 19th-Century Baptismal Register
• Latin Lexicon
• Community Profile: Union City, Connecticut
• Ellis Island Website Premieres!
• Name Changes
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Kroonland departed Antwerp July 28, 1921, arrived
in New York on August 9, 1921
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Willehad departed Bremen and arrived in New York
on October 14, 1898
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Dresden arrived in Baltimore on Octrober 20, 1898
• Пашяць Гролзенскі раён
• Translation Helper
• Stamps Postmarked Domianów by M. Bielawa
• Consulate and Foreign Language Service Lists
• Book Reviews: Dzieje Polski-Kalendarium, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1999
(Calendar of Polish History)
• Sometimes Gifts Come With Our Document Requests

• New “Find Our Roots” Program to Offer Research Services for Grodno Archives
by Barbara Proko
• Mass-Conn-ection 2001: A Resounding Success
• Russian Military Records from the Kingdom of Poland as a Source for Genealogical
Research by Michal Kopczynski, University of Warsaw
• GMINA Listings – Provinces of Kielce and Łomża
• Documents Going Home
• In Search of my Uncle’s Grave by Joanne Kennedy
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Main departing from Bremen on December 21, 1907
• Passenger Ship Arrivals: SS Chemnitz departing from Bremen on October 1906
• Community Profile – Lowell, Massachusetts
• Phonetic Pandemonium, or, Surname Slaughter by Tomasz Kulesz
• Conference Attendees’ Research – Who and Where

• Walking in Babcia’s Footsteps: The Port of Antwerp by Jonathan Shea
• Community Profile: Nashua, New Hampshire
• Slowly But Surely … Inscriptions from Calvary Cemetery, New York City
• What Do 19th-Century Death Registers Tell Us?
• 100th Anniversary, Cambria Steel Company Rolling Mine Disaster, Thursday,
July 10, 1902, 11:30 a.m.
• Searching for Agata by Cecilia Dybas Patalita
• Translation Helper — Português
• Do Your Ancestors Hail From Eastern Europe? by Natalie Schmidt
• Book Review: Kаталіцкія храмьі на Беларусі (Catholic Churches in Belarus) by
A. M. Kulagin
• Seeking Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters? by Ceil Jensen
• Mass-Conn-ection III, Conference Attendees’ Research Areas: Surnames and
Locations

• Researching the Documents of Pur by Matthew Bielawa
• Beyond the Basics — Little-Used Sources
• Seanery of Szczuczyn
• Polish Tour Guides — Strzyżów i Okolice by J. Maciora
• The Effects of Lithuania’s History and Language on Genealogical Research by
William F. Hoffman

• The Closings of Polish Churches — A Cultural Tragedy
• Prussian Census From the Bialystok Region
• Parish Archives — Beyond Sacramental Registers
• Civil Vital Records in the Szczecin State Archives — Part One, A-I
• Book Review: The Polish Community of Worcester by Barbara Proko
• Szerokiej Drogi!
• New Britain People — Get Out Your Photo Albums!
• Selected World War II Resources
• Michał (Michael) Makowski by Janice A. Makowski
• Landless Peasant Genealogical Research by Matthew Bielawa
• Archdiocese of Kraków
• Book Review: Polskie Kościoły w Nowym Jorku (Polish Churches in New York_
by Danuta Piątkowska
• Visiting the Connecticut State Health Department Division of Vital Records

• Stories Old Newspapers Can Tell You by Jonathan D. Shea
• Researching in Great Britain
• Recognizing and Translating Polish Family Court Documents
• The Long Journey Home to Belarus by Pamela Shooks
• PGSCTNE Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
• Civil Vital Records in the Szczecin State Archives – Part Two, J-P
• Parish History Name Index Database Now Online
• Polish Tatar Burial Plot Transcribed
• Rzeszów – 650th Anniversary by Joseph Maciora
• Tips on Translating Słownik Geograficzny Entries by William F. Hoffman

• Castle Garden: The Predecessor of Ellis Island
• Influenza – A Local Look at the Great Pandemic of 1918
• Montréal – Po Polsku!
• Book Review: Nowy Dwór – Dzieje parafii rzymsko-katolickiej 1504-2004
by Rev. Tadeusz Krahel
• Back and Forth Across the Pond by Margaret Jenkins
• Instant Genealogy – Nobility Documents
• Getting the Most out of City Directories
• She’s How Old?? Reported Ages in Document Sources
• Passports: Their Format and Availability
• American Polonia: Statistical Snapshot 1025
• Ostrołęka County Draft Records

• Z TEJ SAMEJ KRWI: Chain Migration in Selected New England Polish Communities
• Contribute, Learn and Grow by Volunteering by Barbara Gancarz
• A Note on the “Muni Archives” by Pamela Shooks
• Polonia in Latvia
• Community Profile – Bridgeport, Connecticut
• World War I Veterans from Bridgeport, CT
• Database News
• Lesser Known Sources: Landowner Lists
• Place Names and (Horrors!) Grammar by William F. “Fred” Hoffman
• Was Your Ancestor’s Morality Certified?
• Guide to Parishes and Villages in the Former Archdiocese of Wilno by Jonathan
Shea and Diane Bojniewicz Szepanski
• Book Review: Jewish Białystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland. A Guide
for Yesterday and Today by Tomasz Wiśniewski. Reviewed by Joseph Maciora,
Reference Librarian, Boston Public Library

• Sources of Immigrants’ Information by Walter V. Hickey, National Archives,
Waltham, MA
• Take a Walk Through a Polish Cemetery by Aleksandra Kacprzak
• Community Profile: Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania
• On-Site Research in Europe – The Rough Guide (author’s name withheld by request)
• Website Update and Appeal
• Changing Place Names: The Case of Prussian / German Partition by
Matthew Bielawa
• Some Jodłowa Transplants to Arkansas and Their Connecticut Cousins by
Margaret Jenkins
• Rypin – Słownik Geograficzny
• Missing Relatives
• Film Review: Dom Polski: Dance Hall Days of Detroit’s Polonia. Review by
Deborah Greenlee
• Book Review: Dwory w Łomżyńskiem by Katarzyna and Jerzy Samusik

• Finding Little Known Pieces of the Genealogy Puzzle by Jean Nudd, National
Archives & Records Administration, Pittsfield, MA
• The History and Current State of the Polish Archive System by Aleksandra Kacprzak
• New Restrictions on Connecticut Vital Records Access
• The Hunt for Obituaries by Barbara Gancarz
• Dead in Detroit?
• Understanding Polish-Language Obituaries by Jonthan Shea
• Book Review: Worcester County’s Polish Community by Barbara Proko and
Janice Baniukiewicz Stickles with Our Lady of Czestochowa Guild of Catholic Women

• Haller’s Army: A Major Part of Polish and Polish-American History by Paul S. Valasek
• A Book That Captures 1930s Polish Peasant Culture by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• Naturalization Indexes Online
• LDS Pilot Site Makes Digitized Records Available Online
• March – Women’s History Month – Sławne Amerykanki Pochodzenia Polskiego
• One Came by Boat, The Other by Plane by Joann Klimkiewicz
• U.S. Passport Applications Now Online

• Preserving Polonia’s Past: the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the
Northeast Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
• No Vital Records? Is The Research Journey Over? by Aleksandra Kacprzak
• Five Strategies for Finding Female Ancestors by Lisa A. Alzo
• Saving the Hometown News
• Observations of a Volunteer Indexer by Kathleen Milewski Claffey
• Can You Trust the Index? by C. L. Niebrzydowski
• Book Review: Zabytkowe Cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej
Rzeczypospolitej: Województwo Nowogrodzkie (Historical Cemeteries in the
Eastern Borderlands of the Second Republic: Province of Nowogródek) by
Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak
• Research Your American-Born Relatives … In European Church Records
• Immigrant Ships: Images and Descriptions by Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius

• Hollywood’s War With Poland, 1939-1945 by M. B. Biskupski
• Przemyśl Genealogical Adventures by Susan Grzyb
• Finding Polish Records Online With Geneteka by Donna Pointkouski
• Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad by R. Klim
• Searching the Ellis Island Database by Place by Jonathan Shea
• Relatives in Québec? Get Out The High School French Book
• Book Review: Inside a Gestapo Prison: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska, 1942-1944
Edited by Irena Tomaszewski – Review by Deborah Greenlee
• Province of Łomża – From the Słownik Geograficzny, translated by Jonathan D. Shea
• Non-Farming Occupations in a Farming Community in the Mid-19th Century by
Jay Orbik
• Poles in Lithuania Want Their “W” Back by Liudas Dapkus
• Survey of Polish Genealogical Periodicals – 2010
• 2011 Polish Genealogical Conference

• Polonia in Misiones Province, Argentina by Johathan D. Shea
• Online Resources: Lackawanna County, PA; Passaic County, NJ (Naturalizations);
Schuylkill County, PA and Antwerp Police Immigration Index
• In Search of Meaning: Understanding a Rare Polish Name by Jay M. Orbik
• Province of Płock
• Finally, Upbeat News About Polish Genealogy: PGSCTNE Surging Forward
by Paul S. Valasek

• Military Recruitment Records: An Untapped Source by Jonthan Shea
• Our Ancestors in the Prussian Army by Aleksandra Kacprzak and Mariusz Zebrowski
• Anna Rostkowska vs. The Villagers of Polkowo: Family History Available from Polish
Court Records – Referendaria Koronna by Jay M. Orbik (Translations by Ola Heska
and Iwona Dakiniewicz)
• Most Popular Contemporary Baby Names in Poland by Joseph G. V. Maciora
• The Most Polish Places in the United States

• Alien Files Find New Home at National Archives
• Vanishing Professions by Aleksandra Kacprzak
• SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church, Wallingford, Connecticut by
Jeanne Gherardi
• Fire on the Water: The Burning of the SS Volturno by Diane Bojniewicz Szepanski
and Jonathan Shea
• Meet Our Volunteers! Bernie Olender and Carol Kaczmarczyk Carter
• County of Kolno – Province of Łomża
• County of Ropczyce, Galicia
• Chicago Polish Parish Registers Online
• Brazilian Immigration Cards

• The International Tracing Service (ITS) – The Closed Archive That’s Finally Been
Opened After More Than 60 Years by Thomas Sadauskas
• Names, Naming Practices and Customs Our Patron Saints by Aleksandra Kacprzak
• Naming Patterns in a Podlasie Parish over 155 Years
• Our Conference
• Alien Registration Files – A Unique Source for Immigrant Research by Shellee A.
Morehead
• Book Review: Litwa – Przewodnik (Lithuania – A Guide) by Józef Krajewski
• Mini – Curitiba Marriage Index
• They Left From Stockholm??!

• Digging Into Lemko and Ukrainian Family History in Southeast Poland by Michael Buryk
• Company Employee Magazines – An Overlooked Source of Genealogical Information
• Genealogy: Recommendations on Methodology for Conducting Genealogical REsearch at the
National Historical Archives of Belarus
• Scan! Scan! Scan! by Dorena Wasik
• The Road Home: Our Adventures in the Homeland of Our Ancestors
• More Names Obtained for Polish Cemetery Collection
• Marraige Database Online
• Wiżajny
• Transcriptions from Wiżajny Parish Cemetery, Part One

• The Genealogical Value of Church Inventories by Jonathan Shea
• Supplemental Social Security Index Released by Ancestry
• Register Entries Too Short or Too Long? Something’s Up!
• Polish Genealogist Lectures Across East Coast to Help Americans Reconnect by
Mark Dillon
• Our Ancestral Villages by Joseph Kielec, PGSMA
• An Infrequently Used Gazetteer – Skorowidz Królestwa Polskiego (Gazetteer of the
Kingdom of Poland)
• County of SokółkaŁ Translation from the Słownik Geograficzny

• Notary Records in Poland by Tadeusz H. Pilat, M.L.S., A.G.
• Ask Aleksandra – The German National List – Deutsche Volksliste – A Source of
Genealogical Information by Aleksandra Kacprzak and Mariusz Zebrowski
• Coal Mines and Concentration Camps: Poles and Poland at the Turn of the
Century by John Righetti
• Vanished Without a Trace

• PGSCTNE Members Address Genealogical Conference in Brzeg, Poland
• An Old Letter….A New Cousin by Edie Jones, Storrs, Connecticut
• Flip-Flopping Maiden Names? Maybe Here’s Why! by A. Zarzecki
• Community Profile: Paterson, New Jersey
• Reclaim the Records by J. Korzeniecki
• PGSCTNE Preliminary Conference Program, October 13 & 14, 2017
• Brick Walls & Digital Newspapers by Kris W. Rzepczynski, MLS, MA
• Missing Persons by J. Brzostowski
• Consular Communiques May Link You to a Relative

• Parish Reorganization in the Archdiocese of Hartford
• Silenced Bells – The Demise of St. Stanislaus Parish, Waterbury, CT
• Selected Parishioner Names of St. Stanislaus Parish, Waterbury
• A Simple German Form That May Look Familiar
• Passports and Censuses Aren’t Just for People!
• Learning Opportunity – 2017 PGSCTNE Conference
• Genealogically-Oriented Trip to Poland Plannned for Next Spring
• Vanished Without a Trace
• So Many Obituaries – So Few Indexers! Can You Help?
• Consular Communiques May Link You to a Relative – Conclusion…

• Errors and Inconsistencies in Polish Vital Records
• Digitized World War I Russian Military Documents Online
• Was Your Family Farm Damaged During World War II? Here’s
  How to Find Out
• Polonia in Cuba: Tropical Paradise Gone Wrong
• This and That – To i Owo
• Beginners’ Corner – Dla Początkujących: Make Sure the Name
  Is Right Before You Search
• Looking Back at the Spanish Flu of 1918

• From the Tsar’s 1864 Decree on Peasants Owning Land
• American Vital Records … But Not in the U.S
• Take a Virtual Walk in Your Ancestral Village
• Recently Discovered Regional Gazetteers
• Is It Worth Doing a DNA Test? Sure It Is!
• Response to the PGSCTNE Genetic Genealogy Webinar
• In Memoriam – † Constance Malodziejko Ochnio †
• Roots in Łomża? Help Build a Database
• Podziękowania – Acknowledgements
• Beginners’ Corner – Dla Początkujących: Gazetteers
• Latin Documents Are Not Always As Easy As They Look!

• Notary Records from the Russian Partition
• Church vs. Quasi-Civil Records in Russian Poland
• Finding the Right Vital Records Office
• For Beginners – Dla Początkujących: Talking to the Relatives
• A New Resource for Surname Information
• Don’t Overlook Local History Publications

• Cause of Death: Dissecting Coroner’s Records for Genealogical Research
• Persistence Rewarded – Northeast Pennsylvania Records Digitization Project
• Polish Miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
• A Largely Untold Refugee Story
• The Ins and Outs of DNA Testing for Family History
• They Don’t Just Fall from Heaven

• Village Court Records as a Source for Genealogical Research
• Supreme Administrative Court in Rzeszów Ruling on Records Access
• Late Birth Registrations: A Source Sometimes Underused
• Polish Online Death Notices
• My First Contact with Polish Genealogy (Sort of)
• Disappearing Churches in the Big Apple
• Use It Now! Before It’s Gone!
• Warum ist es nie leicht?