East European Genealogical Society

03/06/2026

Sharing as a courtesy ... the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan is hosting a free webinar on March 14th titled "Shedding Light on Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Poland and Ukraine." Details are in the image. Head over to their website here 👉 https://pgsm.org/ 👈

03/04/2026

Members are invited to join our Zoom meeting on March 18, 2026 at 7 p.m. CT to hear Kathryn Lake Hogan present on Canadian Ports of Entry: Ship Passengers Lists and Immigration Records. An email with link will be provided a few days before the meeting.

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

02/28/2026

More cultural than genealogical but sure to interest those living in and around Winnipeg … the Cooks Creek Heritage Museum is offering a Pysanky Workshop on March 21. Details in the image.

02/27/2026

Readers who have never accessed or used the Internet Archive may be interested in this video which demonstrates some content of interest to Eastern European researchers. The video is entitled Babushkas and Bubbes at Internet Archive European Records and the link is 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKxFOisv1M.

02/25/2026

Readers with ancestors from Slovakia will be interested in this website.

Genealogy - Tourist Guide - Slovakia - Kosice - Bratislava - Guide to Travel Trip Hotel Info Roots Forum Church Birth Records of Slovakia

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,…