Welcome to the PHGS News Letter for February 2007. Painted Hills Genealogy Society has seen a few changes in the past few months. We changed over from the old Query and Obit boards to the new Forum Boards. The transition seemed to go fairly easy with little complications.We also got a new Guest book installed that makes it easier to delete the spam type messages. 

As some of you are aware we also tried out a new front page. After receiving several negative feedbacks we decided to change it back to the previous version. We try to make everything easier for our members and welcome such feedback. With it we are able to keep our site simple and complete to the best of our ability.

The following articles were submitted by one of our newest members Joseph G.V. Maciora

POLISH VISIT- OCTOBER 8, 2006

    I visited with the Golas family of Tychy, SW Poland.  Mrs. Eugenia (Ruszczyk) Golas had a nice luncheon for me of stuffed cabbage, crepes and apples and juice or water.  Her daughter Hanna (Golas) Loska her husband and daughter and son Henryk, Ewa and Pawel were there too.  Later, arrived Eugenia’s son, Antoni Golas also neatly attired in a blue and white shirt, Navy blue jacket and pants.  Eugenia’s sister ANNA Ruszczyk married my dad’s, Joseph G. Maciora (1921-1998) of Pittsfield, MA and aunt Johanna R. (Maciora) Fell (1908-2003) formerly of Bath, New York, first cousin, Faustyn Maciora (1907-1983) in 1930.  I learned from Antoni that Faustyn was a carpenter and

he built a home for his wife and himself once they were married and they had a large family of 14.  Nine Maciora babies survived into adulthood- this was near and during the years of WORLD WAR II (1939-1945) in northeastern Poland- the village of Charubin and province of Lomza.  This Golas family relocated to Tychy Silesia SW Poland with a promise of an apartment and factory job and so they left their farm in Charubin behind and started a successful new life.  Antoni frequently travels to Charubin perhaps once a month and knows Fasutyn’s sons:  Czeslaw, Jozef and Ryszard whom I met with Faustyn and Anna on August 5, 1980 but we spoke of early family rather then the present as in this trip.  Ryszard married in 1983 and has five daughters!  It was fascinating to learn all of this information though few other names were known.  One never knows where genealogical data will be found!

Joseph G. V. Maciora

Boston, MA 

January 22, 2007

RESEARCH IN A FOREIGN LAND

  One must get their facts from either USA birth, baptismal, marriage or death certificates or passenger ship lists or naturalization records to get the exact geographic location of an ancestor's place of origin.  Also old letters from relatives’ area huge help.  Much of the research in Poland is through church records in parish or diocesan archives.  Baptismal records are AKT CHRZTU, Marriage AKT SLUBU and Death and Burial records: AKT ZGONU. At various times the records are in Polish, Russian after 1863-1918, German post 1870-1918 and Galicia under Austrian rule so German from 1784-1918.  On November 11, 1918 Poland regained its independence after being divided or partioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia in 1772, 1793 and 1795.  1795 saw Poland wiped off the European map for 123 years and Poles were dispersed throughout the world.  Many of these immigrants wanted money for food, religious freedom and political freedom from the detested Czar and Kaiser.  A better life was sought in the USA and Canada for themselves and their future generations.  Be prepared in foreign research, have basic language knowledge of the country, own a dictionary from whatever language to English.  Have a pen and paper for use.  Be patient and persevering!  Good luck.

Joseph G V Maciora

Boston MA

January 22, 2007

NOTICE OF GENEALOGICAL EVENT TO BE HELD June 09, 2007 IN ERIE, PA.
 
 

WHAT: 2007 ESGR GENEALOGICAL CONFERENCE 
Sponsored by the Erie Society for Genealogical Research, to celebrate our 35th Anniversary, serving Erie County. Co-sponsored by the Erie County Public Library, and The Friends of the Erie County Public Library, Inc. 

WHERE: To be held at the Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Library, Erie, Pa. 

WHEN: On Saturday, June 9, Registration - 8:00 am to 9:00 am., Conference - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. 

Our SPEAKERS will be: 

MR. JAMES M. BEIDLER, 
Session Topics: 
Beginning Search for Pennsylvania Roots 
My List of Top Tens 
Secondary Uses for Primary Sources 

MR. RICHARD (DICK) EASTMAN, 
Session Topics: 
Grandpa in Your Pocket 
Internet: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 

DR. STEPHEN P. MORSE, PhD, 
Session Topics: 
Playing Hide and Seek in the 1910-1930 Censuses 
One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools. 

Session selections to be made upon registration. The registration form will appear here in mid February 2007, along with details of cost, etc.Watch for Updates!!! 
 
 

This is on the E S G R web site found at 

www.pa-roots.com/~erie plus the Rootsweb/Erie County web site 

Reservations will be accepted soon for the up-coming Genealogy Conference inErie . 
 
 

If you have questions, contact PHGS Member Alice Henneberry or 

ESGR2007@aol.com. 

http://www.pa-roots.com/~erie/2007GeneConf.html

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