This year The Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts (PGSMA) will be celebrating it's 25th year anniversary by holding a day long event entitled "An Eastern European and Polish Genealogical Roadshow" on June 21, 2014 at the Polish Center of Discovery and Learning in Chicopee, MA. You will find me there on Saturday and will be joining other genealogists do some short one on one consultations to help guide those people who are stuck in their research and want to learn how to proceed in their research.
The Roadshow will run from 10am to 4pm and will feature four speakers and there will be several stations that participants can visit throughout the day to address specific topics or problems with their research. The speakers will be presenting a variety of topics that are geared to both beginners and advanced researchers. Individual working stations will include the following: Find your Village, Map Your Village, Surname Sign-Up, Translation Station, Scanning Old Photographs, Working with Census Records, Navigating Through the LDS Records, and more! Genealogists will be on hand all day to help with dead ends or roadblocks that participants may have encountered.
Due to overwhelming demand and limited space, no further registrations can be accepted for this event. PGSMA plans to hold similar events in the future. Stay tuned for those future events.
They have a new genealogy room at the Polish Center for Discovery and Learning in Chicopee, MA. The PSGMA genealogy room collections represent a cross section of the material culture of Poland. Our library has been moved to the Center, along with some historic maps and helpful genealogical resources. The Center itself has a wonderful collection of displays throughout the building. If you have Polish Ancestry, schedule some time to visit the Center to view all the displays.