Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota

From Mieszko to Millennium: Tracing the Footprints of Religion in Polish History
2024-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Speaker: Professor Gordon Pueschner – MFA
Century College, White Bear Lake, MN
The speaker will cover the following time periods:

Pre-Catholic Times to King Mieszko I Baptism
– A Brief history of the early ancient Slavic paganism to Poland’s early years as a Christian state.

The Warsaw Confederation of 1573
– Religious persecution inside Poland and the positive effects of the Warsaw Confederation.

Religion in Poland under Communism
– The importance of John Paul becoming Pope and the hardships of being Christian under Communism.

This program is free to PGS-MN members, and members do not need to pre-register. The program will be held in person at the Minnesota Genealogy Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mississippi Room, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120 as well as virtually by Zoom. A zoom link will be sent to all PGS-MN members a few days before the program.

Posen: Hidden Sources
2024-02-22 20:00 - 21:30
Speaker: Gary Heyn, Germanic Genealogy Society Treasurer
This is a free program sponsored by the Germanic Genealogy Society, a branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society. Since a number of the PGS-MN members have ancestors from Poznań, we thought this program might be of interest. While the focus will be concentrated on German Genealogy, it will include Polish information.
The speaker is the author of “Standing at the Grave: A Family’s Journey from the Grand Duchy of Posen to the Prairies of North Dakota.” He visited the Poznań area on a recent research trip. Here is the link to register or for more information: https://ggsmn.org/eventListings.php?nm=38#er220

In Search of Kashubia
2024-02-17 11:00 - 14:00
This is a six-hour Zoom event (split between two Saturdays) , sponsored by the Polish American Foundation of Connecticut. We are sharing it as they are offering PGS-MN members a discount for attending (full price is $25 – with PGS-MN discount, the cost is $20). To get the discount, use enter the code when registering (discount code is 2024MN).

2024 Program Meetings
2024-01-24 - 2024-12-24
Our Programs for 2024 are now finished. The topics of the programs for the year were:

March 2, 2024 – From Mieszko to Millennium: Tracing the Footprints of Religion in Polish History April 13, 2024 – Tour of Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota May 11, 2024 – Wieczorek Family Tree – Speaker: Peggy LarsonSeptember 7, 2024 – My Grandfather’s Story – Speaker: Marge Runnakko October 5, 2024 – Kashubian Poles in Minnesota – Speaker: Dr. Joseph HughesNovember 2, 2024 – Tracing Family from the Pomerania Area – Speakers: Kay Freund and Chris DeWuske

The programs were all recorded (except the Tour of the Borchert Map Library – slides are available for that one). The recording from the November program will be available soon.
We encourage you to sign into the Members Only Section of the PGS-MN website to view any of them in the Program Meeting Archives.
Enjoy the holidays and winter season ahead! We will post programs for 2025 (first program will be in March) as details get worked out.
