Our October membership meeting took on a challenge many of us know firsthand: tracing Polish roots with DNA when so much seems stacked against us. Eryk Jan Grzeszkowiak presented “Unlocking Polish Ancestry with DNA: Overcoming the Challenges of Underrepresented...
This month’s membership meeting tackled a challenge many of our members hit sooner or later: church records written in Latin. Kasia Dane, a longtime genealogical researcher who has contributed roughly half a million record entries to sites like Geneteka and...
This month’s membership meeting brought back a member favorite: Research Night: Breaking Through Our Members’ Brick Walls. Panelists Valerie Baginski, Sandra Porter, and Julie Szczepankiewicz worked through real brick wall questions submitted by members in...
The Summer 2026 issue of Searchers (Issue No. 102) is available in the Member Portal, where current members have exclusive access to the Society’s most recent five years of Searchers (15 issues total). By now, members should have received their printed copy as...
This past weekend, the Polish Genealogical Society of New York State once again set up our research table at the Cheektowaga Polish American Arts Festival — and by every measure, it was one of the best years yet. A Record Turnout Attendees turned out in what looked...
PGSNYS is heading back to Cheektowaga Town Park this month for the 46th Annual Cheektowaga Polish American Arts Festival, and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of the biggest in recent memory. Whether you’re coming to trace your family tree, hear...
