| Researching Polish Roots Across Poland and Its Three Partitions (Matthew Bielawa) |
| From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th centuries, Poland included three empires: Austria, Prussia and Russia. Each involves distinctive genealogical research. This lecture presents the history and geography of Poland in relation to the Partitions, and explains each Partition’s own unique challenges, covering gazetteers, vital record keeping procedures, and languages of the records. The changing map of Poland will be illustrated to help the genealogist gain better understanding of one’s ancestral region. |
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| Locating Places in Poland: Gazetteers, Maps, and other Sources (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
| This lecture discusses the value and availability of Gazetteers, Maps, and the Internet to locate your ancestral town in Poland; also the effect of Polish, German, Latin, Russian, and Ukrainian orthography and grammar on the names of localities. |
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| Vital Records and other Resources in the three partitions of Poland (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
| A description of the keeping of vital records in each of the 3 partitions of Poland; Austria, Russia and Prussia. What information is included, the languages used, and comparative usage for genealogical research. |
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| Vital Records of Galicia / Halychyna (Poland / Ukraine) (Matthew Bielawa) |
| This presentation will introduce vital records of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, also known in Ukrainian as Halychyna. Topics include finding the vital records using North American, Polish and Ukrainian sources as well as reading the records through examples and learning common terminology and translation hints. In addition, you will learn how to cite your sources and maintain the information in your genealogical software. |
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| Galician Examples of Empire-wide Austrian Records (Brian J. Lenius) |
| Many types of records are similar regardless of where in the Empire research is conducted. Galician examples will illustrate birth, marriage and death records and the Empire-wide rules for keeping them. Land cadastral records and maps, Austrian military and Austrian census records will also be covered. True census records will be compared to Status Animarum and other records often mistaken as census records. |
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| Genealogical Records in the Prussian East (Edward R. Brandt) |
| The same records existed for each eastern Prussian province including East and West Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, and East Brandenburg but they became part of Prussia at different times. Records covered in the presentation for areas east of the Oder-Neisse are in Berlin, Leipzig or Poland. Important ones include vital registers, land and tax records, court records, published lineages, card and data collections, and records of refugees, expellees and re-settlers from the East. |
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| One Way Ticket: Polish Repatriation Records From the Post WWII Period (Matthew Bielawa) |
| The resettlement of ethnic Poles originating in eastern Poland at the end of World War II greatly affected family history and genealogical research. This presentation will explain the historic background, discuss techniques to find original pre-war and post-war resettled locations, as well as introduce the massive collection of documents in Poland’s State Office of Repatriation. |
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| A Primer for Galiziendeutschen (Germans from Galicia) Research (Brian J. Lenius) |
| Colonization of Galicia by Germans from other parts of Europe began in the 1780's. Lutheran/Reformed and Roman Catholic research will be covered with special emphasis on research problems unique to German Catholics and colonies in East Galicia. Out-migration to Vienna, U.S.A., Canada, and other countries began late in 1800's. The 150 year history of the colonies ended with the final exodus of most German Colonists from today’s Ukraine during World War Two. |
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| Reading Vital Records and Other Local History Documents in Latin (Thomas K. Edlund) |
| A facility with reading Latin is an immensely valuable skill for any genealogist researching in European records. This workshop summarizes the challenges Latin records present to family historians, and discusses procedures and resources for interpreting Latin documents form the 16th to 20th centuries. |
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| Hands-on Approach to Learning the Cyrillic Alphabets (Matthew Bielawa) |
| In order to facilitate learning how to read the Cyrillic letters, it helps to learn how to write them first! This workshop will introduce the most popular Cyrillic alphabets, as well as present tricks to learning the letters and point out common pitfalls for English speakers. Bring along a pen and lots of paper - you’’ll see how easy the Cyrillic alphabets are with just a little practice! |
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| Emigration: the Decision, Preparations to Leave, and the Paper Trail (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
| This lecture will explore the changes which encouraged people to emigrate, including economic, social, and political reasons, and will take a close look at the process of separating from the homeland and discovering the "paper trail" (i.e., passports) it created. |
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| German Ports, Emigration Literature, and the Voyage (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
| Attendees will learn how to use the vast supply of "emigration literature" (i.e., Passenger lists, Hamburg Police Records, etc.) to trace a genealogy, and learn how to recreate the journey and its hardships. Actual case studies will be drawn upon to strengthen the experience. |
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| Changes in Eastern Europe and Family History Library Microfilming (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
| This lecture discusses Eastern European border changes and covers the history of what, when, and how the Family History Library has acquired the records in its collection including current acquisitions. |
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| How Family History Library Films are Acquired from the Former Soviet Sphere (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
| Collection Management at the Family History Library, Record Locations, Field Negotiations, Filming Procedures, Shipping, Receipt, Cataloging, and Distribution through the Family History Library Catalog. Understand why some records are acquired and others not. Improved ability to find information in the Family History Library Catalog. |
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| German Migration to Linguistic Enclaves in the East (Edward R. Brandt) |
| One migration path consisted of movement to central Poland, Volhynia and certain south Russia (incl. Black Sea) settlements and a second path consisted of movement to Galicia, the Bukovina, the Banat and the Batschka. Origins of these two groups of settlers are quite different. Migration to Bessarabia and Mennonite areas (Prussia, south Russia) can also be included depending upon the interests of audience members. Time will be left for questions about these diverse areas. |
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| EWZ: World War Two Immigration Records of Germans from East Europe (Dave Obee) |
| Between 1939 and 1945 more than 2.1 million ethnic Germans who had been living in other countries applied to move to the Reich. They were processed by the Einwandererzentralstelle (EWZ, literally Immigration Center), a central German authority for the immigration and naturalization. The EWZ files are available on thousands of rolls of microfilms. |
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