Table of Contents for Rodziny Winter 2009:

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

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

Update: The Catholic Church and the Mormons,

William F. Hoffman……………………………………….. 3

From Our Correspondent in Poland: Alegata—

Unknown and Important Documents in

Genealogy, Iwona Dakiniewicz………………………. 5

PGSA Election Results, Rich Stanowski……………….. 8

Meet the 2009-2010 Board Members……………………. 8

Spotllight on a Special Volunteer: Deloris

Cieslewicz, Kenneth P. Nowakowski……………… 11

PolishOrigins.com……………………………………………. 11

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

From the Library: Photographs, Virginia

Witucke…………………………………………………….. 16

Correlating Surnames with Small Settlement

Names, John J. Ryś……………………………………. 15

Planning A Successful Ancestral Journey to

Poland, Grażyna Rychlik……………………………… 20

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Błonie………………. 24

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

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