Table of Contents for Rodziny Spring 2009:

News and Notes from the President……………………… 1

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

From Our Correspondent in Poland: Apostilles and

International Conventions, Iwona Dakiniewicz….. 3

PGSA Financial Statement for 2008……………………… 4

Back Before I Was Polish, Rob Reid…………………….. 5

Article Follow-Up: Response from Homeland

Security, Kenneth P. Nowakowski…………………… 7

Rediscovering My Great-Grandmother’s True

Identity, R. Kenneth Sigmund………………………… 9

Ancestry.com World Archives Project………………….. 13

Ask the Retoucher, Eric Basir…………………………….. 14

From the Library: Atlases of Poland, Virginia

Witucke…………………………………………………….. 16

Some Poznań Families Immigrated to Calumet,

Michigan, Joseph F. Martin………………………….. 17

Getting the Most Out of Databases, James J.

Czuchra…………………………………………………….. 21

Wigilia and Gwiazda Award Nominations, Please!… 22

Handwritten Signature of Juriaen Probasco/

Gyorgy Probatski, Gwen Fuller…………………….. 23

From the Słownik Geograficzny…………………………. 25

Articles of Interest…………………………………………….. 27

Index to Surnames Mentioned in This Issue………… 28