PGSA President’s Column, Chet Szerlag………………………………….1

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

Next PGSA Meeting/Webinar, May 17, 2020 …………………………2

From Our Correspondent in Poland: The Forgotten City of Kowel, Iwona Dakiniewicz ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..3

Genealogy in Poland TODAY! The Impact of Covid-19 on Heritage Tourism and Genealogy Research in Poland, Tomasz Szymkowiak…………………………………………….7

Ancestry Abandoned, Karl von Loewe …………………………………..8

My Family’s Tapestry of Time and Place, Catherine Piasecki Girgen………………………12

An Appeal for Volunteers………………………………………………………..15

A Historic Document: The Tsar’s 1864 Decree on Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland, translated by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman …………………………………16

Organizations Representing Americans from Central & Eastern European Countries

Back National Museum of the American People…………………………………………………..23 From the Słownik Geograficzny………………………………………………25

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

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue………………………..32