I recently posted a short article relating why ProGenealogists is the ideal research team to take on our clients’ British ancestry projects. I’ve been meaning to put a brief article online on this topic for a while. At ProGenealogists, we’re invested in helping people make the next step in their family history. We find that [...]

This New Year’s weekend I had the opportunity to help a friend with Polish research.  He was visiting a brother in Utah and, just before his trip, was entrusted with his family’s records while he was near the largest genealogical repository in the world, The Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He was anxious to get some [...]

As one of ProGenealogists’s senior genealogists, I specialize in European research. In November 2009, I will be traveling in France, Germany, and Poland. I am available to undertake research for ProGenealogists clients during this time. That includes archival research in repositories of these countries, onsite research in cemeteries and churches, home site research, and interviewing [...]

Polish Marriage Records Online
Kyle J. Betit
Finding an ancestor’s home village or town in Poland can be a difficult job – especially because there are few large databases of Polish records to check online. Recently, however, some marriage databases have become available that are impressive and a good start on indexing Polish marriages online. Beware that [...]

ProGenealogists features a diverse group of genealogists specializing in European research – from Ireland to Germany, Italy and Russia - among many other countries. Yet, ProGenealogists is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sometimes I speak with people who wonder how we can be such experienced experts in European research if we live in the American [...]

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 [...]