Conference Schedule


Friday, August 7

 

4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.        Registration

5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.        Opening Remarks

 

     TIME

         SPEAKER

                    LECTURE TITLE 

 

 

 

5:45-7:00

Kahlile Mehr (F-100)

East European Internet Sites
 

5:45-7:00

Lisa Alzo  (F-101)

Silent Voices: Researching and Writing About Your Female Ancestors
 

7:00-7:30          View Vendor Exhibits and Refreshments     

7:45-9:00

Stephen Danko (F-102)

Polish Court Records
 

7:45-9:00

Matthew Bielawa and
Jonathan Shea (F-103)

Getting Started:  Finding the Missing Pieces of Your Polish-American Family History
 

Saturday, August 8

 


 *** Individual consultations with speakers will be held by appointment.  
       Please see Consultation Appointment Form.

 

7:30 a.m. - 8:45  a.m.       Registration     

8:45 a.m. - 9:15  a.m.       Opening Remarks

 

     TIME

           SPEAKER

                  LECTURE  TITLE

 

 

 

9:30-10:45

Mieczyslaw B.  Biskupski (S-200)

Topic Will be on Some Aspect of Polish or Polish-American History
 

9:30-10:45

Thomas Sadauskas
  (S-201)

Lithuanian?  Polish?  It’s All the Same, Isn’t It?  Researching Your Lithuanian Ancestry
 

11:00-12:15

Brian J. Lenius (S-202)

Land Records and Property Maps (Cadastral)
 

11:00-12:15

Linda Blaser (S-203)

Preserving Family Papers and Photographs
 


12:15-1:30        Lunch
 

1:45-3:00

Brian J. Lenius (S-204)

Journey Through Galicia
 

1:45-3:00

Stephen Danko (S-205)

Genealogy and the Changing Map of Eastern Europe
 

3:15-4:30

Kahlile Mehr (S-206)

How Family History Library Films are Acquired from the Former Soviet Sphere
 

3:15-4:30

William Fred Hoffman
   (S-207)

Your Ancestor’s Name Wasn’t Mxplq Prszmytgu!  A Question-and Answer Session on Polish Names and English Distortions
 

4:45-5:45

Lisa Alzo (S-208)

“Slovak Land” or “No Man’s Land:”  Finding Your Slovak and Rusyn Roots
 

4:45-5:45

Aleksandra Kacprzak
   (S-209)

No Vital Records?  Alternative Sources for Family History Archival Research
 


5:45-6:30          Round Table Discussion -   Alumni Hall