East European Genealogical Society

04/13/2026

Readers may be interested in the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan presentation on voyages in the 19th and 20th century, scheduled for April 18th. Registration is required.

The PGSM website offers Polish-Americans the opportunity to connect with other researchers and access to web links and databases, along with the latest events & happenings in Polish-American research.

04/11/2026

Knowing the name of an ancestral village is critical to extending your eastern European research overseas. Rich Venezia discusses 16 type of records that may contain this information in the following article on the familytree website.

These sources will help you pinpoint an immigrant ancestor’s Old World town or village of origin.

04/07/2026

Are you just beginning your eastern European genealogy journey? We offer a variety of FREE fillable PDF forms to help you track your research. You can find them on our website at this link 👉 https://eegsociety.org/useful-links-and-forms 👈Enjoy!

04/04/2026

The Appleton Public Library and Appleton, Wisconsin is offering a free presentation on April 11th titled "Successful Strategies for Researching Eastern European Ancestors." The presenter is Lisa A. Alzo. Details, including a link to register, can be found by clicking the link below.

Join us in person at the library or virtually for our monthly Find Your Ancestors series.Registration: No registration is needed to attend the program in the library. Online attendees must register in advance for this program here.Program Topic: Crossing the Pond - Successful Strategies for Resear...

04/02/2026

For those doing research on Canadian ancestors, note that the 1940 National Registration records have been transferred from Statistics Canada to Library and Archives Canada and are not available at this time. For more information see https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/military-history/second-world-war/national-registration-file.html.

03/30/2026

People sometimes question why the EEGS includes German genealogy in our purview. Those same folks are quite likely looking a modern map of Germany and missing the historical context. Ethnic Germans have migrated out of central Europe and settled into eastern Europe. Blogger Sandy Schilling Payne's website Germans from Russia Settlement Locations is dedicated to mapping where those Germans settled. In the following post, she highlights the German settlements in present-day Ukraine and includes additional maps referencing historical terms.

German settlements in Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian war 2026

03/27/2026

Are you interested in learning about some of the customs your eastern European ancestor may have participated in? Click the link below to read the post on the Culture.pl website. Enjoy!

Whether it is the harvest, celebrating fire, water, a new birth, a marriage ceremony, or death – Slavs knew how to mark their every day and every night. Let us see how much of the Slavic soul still remains in Poles of today!

03/24/2026

Members are invited to join our Zoom meeting on April 15, 2026 at 7 p.m. CT to hear Lisa A. Alzo present on 10 Things Every Eastern Genealogist Should Know. An email with link will be provided a few days before the meeting.

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

03/22/2026

The Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International is offering a series of webinars this year "Understanding and Exploring the Czech and Slovak Archives." Click the link below to learn more about the series and to find a link to register for the first webinar.

CGSI is proud to announce our 2026 Web Series: Understanding and Exploring the Czech and Slovak Archives. This series of one hour web programs will explain and explore the various National and Regional Archives that hold countless genealogical records.Each Archive is unique. We will focus an hour...

03/18/2026

Hey, EEGS members! Watch your mailboxes for the winter issue of the East European Genealogist. Click the link below to read the blog post describing what each article is about, how to read the first page of the articles for free, and what to do if you aren't a member of the EEGS but are interested in purchasing this back issue.

New EEGS blog post written by: Chris Bukoski

03/15/2026

MyHeritage recently introduced a new feature called Scribe AI that transcribes and analyzes a variety of documents. You can read about Louis Kessler’s experience in the following post on his Behold Genealogy blog.

Today is the first day of RootsTech 2026 in Salt Lake City. I hope everyone who is there is enjoying it, and everyone who is not (myself included) is taking advantage of the many free excellent online talks for the virtual attendees.

03/14/2026

Join our EEGS Publications Chair Chris Bukoski for a free online seminar titled "Eastern European Genealogy for Beginners" offered through the Winnipeg Public Library. It is being held Saturday, March 28, 2026 from 1 to 2:15 PM. Register at this link 👉 https://wpl.libcal.com/calendar/main?cid=1677&t=g&d=2026-03-28&cal=1677&inc=0