{"id":6076,"date":"2009-09-18T20:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2009-09-18T20:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T03:31:03","slug":"the-2009-conference-of-the-polish-genealogical-society-of-america-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/6076","title":{"rendered":"The 2009 Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day of the 2009 Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America .\u00a0 The lectures presented today were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stan Schmidt &#8211; Case Study\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Finding Family the Easy Way &#8211; Let Them Find You&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Karen Stanuch, Joan Fenili, and Janet Halfar &#8211; Case Study\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Anna and Her Sisters&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ken Nowakowski &#8211; Case Study\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;The Four Sisters&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jadwiga Cyparska, PhD &#8211; &#8220;You Are Able to Understand Polish, Too!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Michael Mikos &#8211; &#8220;Visiting Poland: The Glory of the Past and the Promise of the Future&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cynthia Piech &#8211; &#8220;Folk Costumes of Various Regions of Poland: Influences, Styles, Fabric, and Details&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was able to speak with Michael Mikos and Cynthis Piech briefly at the end of the day&#8217;s events and get a photo of each of them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6077\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Michael-Mikos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6077\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6077  \" title=\"Michael Miko\u015b\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Michael-Mikos-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Miko\u015b\" width=\"368\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Miko\u015b<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Michael Miko\u015b (Schaumburg, Cook County, Illinois). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 18 Sep 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6078\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Cynthia-Piech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6078\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6078  \" title=\"Cynthia Piech\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Cynthia-Piech-682x1023.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Piech\" width=\"245\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Piech<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Cynthia Piech (Schaumburg, Cook County, Illinois). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 18 Sep 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lectures were easy to listen to: entertaining, interesting, and informative. Tomorrow&#8217;s lectures delve into some pretty heavy stuff: archives, history, gazetteers, sources, cemeteries, and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day of the 2009 Conference of the Polish Genealogical Society of America. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/6076\">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-6076","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-1A0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","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=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}