{"id":551,"date":"2006-09-07T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T04:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/getting-ready-for-the-pgsa-conference\/"},"modified":"2015-06-21T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T06:40:05","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-pgsa-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/551","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the PGSA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I leave for the 28th Annual Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA) in Schaumburg, Illinois (just outside of Chicago).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lined up\u00c2\u00a0a tentative schedule from the choices for concurrent sessions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Importance of the National Archives: Records Not Found on the Internet<\/li>\n<li>The Grasinski Girls: The Importance of Oral History<\/li>\n<li>Mariana: Matka, \u017bona, C\u00f3rka, Siostra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Polish Heraldry<\/li>\n<li>Sources for Researching Polish Nobility<\/li>\n<li>Polish Nobility<\/li>\n<li>Cemeteries: Look High and Low, Above and Below!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sto Lat: A Plan for Finding 100 Years of Ancestors<\/li>\n<li>Maps for Genealogy: Old, New and Electronic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My Saturday schedule is heavy on Heraldry and Nobility, since I&#8217;ve traced one of my grandfathers back to Polish Nobility .\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been told that records were maintained for the nobility long before records existed for the commoners .\u00a0 Who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I&#8217;ll find out how to trace this line back a bit further, before the churches kept baptism, marriage, and death records.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the conference is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgsa.org\">PGSA<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s time for me to pack .\u00a0 I hope to see some of you at the conference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I leave for the 28th Annual Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA) in Schaumburg, Illinois (just outside of Chicago). I&#8217;ve lined up\u00c2\u00a0a tentative schedule from the choices for concurrent sessions: Friday The Importance of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-genealogy-conferences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18412,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}