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2012 Rodziny – Fall 2012 – Electronic version

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Table of Contents for Rodziny Fall 2012

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

Letters to the Editor…………………………………………………..1

PGSA’s November Meeting……………………………………….2

Daniel J. Kij, RIP……………………………………………………….2

From Our Correspondent in Poland: Belarus, A

Pleasant Surprise!, Iwona Dakiniewicz…………………..3

Countdown to Publication, Rosalie Lindberg…………………5

The Toledo Polish Genealogical Society Celebrates

Its Tenth Anniversary, 2002-2012, Rosemary

A. Chorzempa…………………………………………………….6

From the Library: Genealogy Online, Virginia Witucke……8

Digital Reprint of St. Hedwig’s Centennial Anniversary

Book…………………………………………………………………8

Respecting Polish Heritage—A Review of The Crowned

White Eagle: My Polish Heritage, reviewed by

Magdalene & Arthur A. Wagner…………………………….9

The Benefits of Digital Rodziny…………………………………..9

Nowy Targ, Poland and Schenectady, New York—

A Very Special Relationship, Phyllis Zych Budka…..10

Excerpt from A History of Masuria by Max Pollux

Toeppen, translated by William F. Hoffman…………..16

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Brześć Kujawski,

Ryn, Stary Brześć……………………………………………..24

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

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

2012 Rodziny – Winter 2012 – – Electronic version

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Table of Contents for Rodziny Winter 2012

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

Society Announcements……………………………………… 2

From Our Correspondent in Poland: The

Gubernia Military Police Department,

Iwona Dakiniewicz……………………………………….. 3

It’s Not Too Late!………………………………………………………5

The Five Sisters, Kenneth P. Nowakowski………………….6

Don’t Throw These Papers Out!, William F. Hoffman…..13

Ask the Retoucher, Eric Basir…………………………….. 16

From the Library: The Family Tree Sourcebook,

Virginia Witucke…………………………………………. 17

Upcoming PGSA General Meeting……………………… 17

The “Twins,” Margaret Baker……………………………… 18

Titanic: The Polish Perspective, David Greenlee….. 22

From the Słownik Geograficzny: Gołęczyna,

Korczyn, Krzywa, Nowe Miasto Korczyn……….. 23

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

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

In Their Words: Polish – A Genealogist’s Translation Guide -ELECTRONIC VERSION – 10.4 MB pdf

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In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents – Volume I: Polish – ELECTRONIC VERSION

Authors: Jonathan Shea and William F. Hoffman

This will be downloaded as a 10.4 MB pdf file.

Acclaimed translation guides written with the Polish genealogist in mind.> These volumes reproduce and analyze in detail dozens of documents in Polish and Russian. These are the kinds of documents your research is likely to encounter – and not just birth, marriage and death records but also passports, obituaries, population registers, military service records, and so on.

In addition, each book gives information on the language’s alphabet, spelling, pronunciation, and standard handwriting; lists thousands of the terms most often encountered in documents; provides information on how to locate records in America and Europe; offers a series of maps illustrating the history of Poland; and includes a whole chapter on using gazetteers to locate your ancestral villages and thus determine which archives are likely to have documents relating to your family, along with contact information for those archives and help writing letters to them.