The Am-Pol Eagle has awarded member Ed Kornowski and the PGSNYS its Citizen of the Year awards as follows:
Good Neighbor – Edward Kornowski – restored Michalina Buczkowska grave marker
Community Organization - Polish Genealogical Society of NY State – ever-present volunteer organization that helps people discover their ancestry
Title: PGSNYS March meeting
Location: Villa Maria College Cafeteria/Student Lounge
Description:
Regularly scheduledmeeting.
Member and guest research time.
Start Time: 7:00 p.m.
Date: 2015-03-12
During the January 2015 meeting, amendments to the PGSNYS By-laws were approved by those present in accordance with Article XIII, Amendments, of the By-laws. The following sections of the By-laws were amended:
Article II, Purpose, replaced in its entirety.
Article IV, Officers, section 1 amended adding term limits.
PRESIDENT: Denise Oliansky
VICE PRESIDENT: David Newman
SECRETARY: Dolores Ferguson
TREASURER: Chuck Pyrak
TRUSTEES
James Ciulis
Maureen Gleason
Pierre LaLoie
Patricia Rooney
Sherry Sojka
Rather than focusing on the “how-to” of genealogical research, the course will explore at the development of genealogical sensibility over the last 300 years to reflect on how genealogy in America was a foci of broader questions of identity, class, race, ethnicity, gender and science as much as it was also a debate around exclusiveness, belonging and family restoration.
Visit the Meeting page for a list of future meeting topics and PGSNYS member events.
The new address of the PGSNYS is:
PGSNYS