During my visit to Athens in early September, I visited the National Library of Greece which is at the University of Athens. I spoke to one librarian about resources for genealogy in Greece. It seems that genealogical research in Greece is in its infancy. I would expect it to grow steadily in the future considering the [...]

My time in Poland so far has been spent in two areas: in the former Austrian Galicia (in the southeastern part of modern-day Poland), and in Warsaw (which is spelled Warszawa in Polish). Warsaw was in the Russian partition of Poland. The “partition” refers to the fact that in the late 1700s, three major neighboring [...]