12:00 PM-Piotr Nojszewski: Poles who served in Foreign Armies
This lecture will cover how and where to search for your ancestors who served in the Russian, Prussian and Austrian armies. We will cover the many resources such as draft and casualty list. It will also cover the websites for online research and archive locations.

1:15 PM-Tadeusz Pilat: No Vital Records? No Problem
You have just discovered there are no surviving vital records for your area of Poland. Do you give up? The answer is no. This lecture will show you what other types of records might be available. The lecture will use the “hopeless” Kadzidło/Myszyniec area as an example why you should never give up. The lecture will also discuss the Confraternity records of the Society of Saint Joseph in the Silesian area of Poland. They are a treasure trove of information for genealogists

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