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2024 Rodziny – Fall 2024 – Electronic Version

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Table of Contents:

PGSA President’s Column, Robert M. Pine…………………………………1

Future PGSA Webinars…………………………………………………………………2

Remember the PGSA with a Legacy from Your Will or Trust. …2

Organizing Your Personal Digital Archive, Part 2: Building aDigital Haven—The Art of Folders, Dorota Walker………….3

Tips for Beginners: A Mórg or Morga, William F. Hoffman………7

Weaver to Coal Miner—Wyjechał do Ameryki, Mary Gnip   Pate. ………………………………………………8

Experiences Tying Pieces Together, Part II. Family Stories, Vital Records, Memoirs, and University Archives, Richard Gorzela. ………………………………………………………………….. 13

Book Review by David Trawinski of Only Two Places, Poland and Buffalo: A History of One New York Family by Jerome Vincenty Biedny Jr.. ……………………………………………………………. 16

Courtship and Betrothal, Kasia Rutkowska. …………………………… 17

In Search of a Polish Matriarch, Edgar Amaya………………………. 19

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Wola Piotrowa. …………………… 30

Polish Army in France and Fort Niagara, NY, Paul S. Valasek………………………………………………….. 31

PGSMA Biuletyn Korzenie / Roots Bulletin, Fall 2024. …………….. 32

At Last! The Digitization of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston’s Records. ………………………… 32

Our Summer Meeting: Pay Cut! Al Out!…………………………… 33

Book Review: Ellis Island: A People’s History. …………………….. 35

Polish Food: A Poem…………………………………………………………… 35

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue. ………………………… 36

2023 Rodziny -Summer 2023 – Electronic Version

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Table of Contents:

PGSA President’s Column, Robert M. Pine ………………………………1

August Quarterly Webinar Meeting, 20 August 2023 ………….2

Letters to the Editor…………………………………………………………………..2

† Deloris Cieslewicz †………………………………………………………………..3

Book Review: Karl von Loewe’s Lost Roots: Family, Identity, and Abandoned Ancestry, reviewed by Virginia Witucke [reprint with corrections] ……………………………………………………3

Genealogy in Poland Today: Ancestry Travel – The Next Step of Genealogy Research Gaining Popularity. Now Available also as a Virtual Tour, Tom Szymkowiak………….4

My Polish Irish Ancestors, Margaret B. Barker ………………………..5

Archives in the Southeastern Corner of Poland, Maciej Orzechowski ………………………………………….14

Carried Off!, Dean G. Calamaras…………………………………………….15

Saving the Church Bell, translated by Dale McGee ………………22

Some Insights on Spellings and Surnames, William F. Hoffman………………………………………..24

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Dobrzyjałowo and Kobylin (both Kolno county), and Płonna, Sanok county (now in Ukraine)………………………………………………….28

Articles of Interest……………………………………………………………………31

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue………………………..31

2022 Rodziny – Spring 2022 – Electronic version

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Table of Contents

PGSA President’s Column, Robert M. Pine ……………………………… 1

Next PGSA Webinar, 15 May 2022 …………………………………………..2

PGSA Financial Statement for 2021, David Lewandowski ……………..2

Brick Wall: Were My Polish Ancestors Ever Protestants? Dorota Walker……………………………….3

What Killed Your Relative?, Dean G. Calamaras……………………..7

Unlikely Places, Dolores Ray……………………………………………………..9

The Stodolka Family, Mike Stodolka……………………………………..10

Additions to the PGSA Website……………………………………………..18

Kashubians in Detroit, Kulturkampf of Farmers to the American Assimilation of Autoworkers at the Ford Motor Company – Part One, Jeff Turkowski………..19

Book Reviews: A Good Book—But Is It Relevant to Genealogy? Newspaper—Real Estate Schemes of the 1920s: Pell Lake and Other Vacation Colonies for Working Class Subscribers, by Margaret B. Baker, reviewed by William F. Hoffman ………………………………………26

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Czarnia, Myszyniec, Surowe…………………………………………28

Articles of Interest……………………………………………………………………31

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue………………………..31