November Joint meeting with the Polish Genealogy Society – Two speakers.
It starts at 10 am Janet will give her presentaion then there will be a short break (15 minutes) and I will present my program.
Presenter: Janet Mitchell
Title: Finding My Kowalski Family, From West Prussia to America (Ancestral Locale Changes to Pomerania & Poland)
Summary: Based on information given by my grandmother, who was born in West Prussia and emigrated to America in 1903, I used many record groups to find the entire family and several generations backwards in time to 1793 Localities, maps, research repositories and record groups used, with surnames researched both in Europe and America are detailed in the presentation.
Presenter: Jim Neuenfeldt
“Stanley Kusz” Whose Military Were You Really In
Jim will discuss the research methods used in finding and identifying his grandfather’s military history from a photograph. How did that compare to the stories he was told by family members. How it relates to Pomerania and areas that relates to today’s Poland. Ideas on how he researched different types of Prussian military photographs to help other genealogists.
