East European Genealogical Society

02/19/2026

Blogger Katherine Schober shares a few tips about names in German genealogy on her blog Germanolgy Unlocked. Enjoy!

Deciphering names in genealogical documents can be a bit of a challenge. After all, you can’t just look in the dictionary to see if your transcribed name is correct. Having a grasp on the German naming system, therefore, can be very helpful for your research. Remember these ten facts below, and un...

02/18/2026

Just a reminder to members that our next meeting is on February 18th, 2026. In this Zoom presentation, John Schwandt will describe how he pursued - and eventually solved - a poignant family mystery, of a family branch lost in the chaos of circumstances in Eastern Europe during – and in the aftermath of – World War II.

New EEGS event hosted by: East European Genealogical Society, at Zoom Only

02/17/2026

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02/16/2026

Rootstech is an annual genealogy conference hosted by FamilySearch offering in-person and online sessions. Virtual attendance is free! :) Michelle Tucker Chubenko is presenting "Click Into Ukraine: Online Resources for Tracing Your Ancestry" on March 7th at 9 a.m. Central. Details about the session as well as the syllabus are available at the link below. Be sure to register for the virtual sessions on this page 👉 https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/registration 👈

Participants will learn how to trace their Ukrainian ancestry using the best online resources available for genealogical research. This session guides attendees through websites offering access to metrical records, maps, newspapers, and gazetteers covering Galicia, Imperial Russia, Interwar Poland,....

02/13/2026

Readers who haven't yet tried the FamilySearch Full Text Search will find this blog useful in starting a trial.

Let me start with a quick apology. Not really an apology, but an explanation. My mom lives about three hours away, and last fall we learned that she has Stage 4 lung cancer. Getting her medications…

02/11/2026

Readers with ancestors from northeastern Poland, Lithuania or Belarus may be interested in this upcoming webinar. The Polish Genealogical Society of America is hosting its next webinar on February 15th at 2pm Central time. The topic is Land Consolidation & Reform Records in Genealogy. Daniel Paczkowski of Białystok is a researcher, genealogy tour guide and co-founder of the association indexing records of parishes in northeastern Poland and adjacent parts of Lithuania and Belarus.

02/08/2026

Blogger Vera Miller provides an update on the Inspector Duck website that tracks files digitized by the Ukrainian Archives. Learn more in the following post on her Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family blog.

Keeping track of the Ukrainian archive cases going online is an overwhelming task. Thankfully, Inspector Duck continues to crawl on the sites with those records to post the links to find them. Now,…

02/06/2026

Members are invited to join us for our next meeting on February 18th, 2026. In this Zoom presentation, John Schwandt will describe how he pursued - and eventually solved - a poignant family mystery, of a family branch lost in the chaos of circumstances in Eastern Europe during – and in the aftermath of – World War II.

New EEGS event hosted by: East European Genealogical Society, at Zoom Only

02/04/2026

Our readers may be interested in this post which outlines and explains some of the quirks in FamilySearch Full Text Search collections list.

For several months, I’ve been puzzled by what is showing as recently added to FamilySearch Full Text Search. So I asked ChatGPT. You are an expert on the FamilySearch.org website. Why at FamilySearch.org, when I call up the list of Full Text Seach databases do I most often see a list with the late...

01/30/2026

Readers will be interested in the advice in this blog to focus on the more recent generations and not just the long list of ancestors for which you can only get dates and names.

Most family historians get it wrong from day one.

01/28/2026

Those readers hoping that AI would help them decipher old German script will be interested in this blog.

Disclaimer: This article was written on November 18, 2025, using the paid version 5.1 of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is constantly evolving and changing, which means that its skills and capabilities may change in the future. ChatGPT is a great new tool, and you can use it for many things – asking questions o...

01/23/2026

Readers with Russian ancestors may be interested in Vera Miller's blog about a large collection of newspapers printed worldwide for Russians from 1911-2010 that can be searched.

Searching the text of more than 1 million pages of Russian newspapers from the 20th century has become easy, thanks to a major ongoing project of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in St…