The S.A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies presents “Location, Location, Location: Historical Maps in Genealogy Research.”
Identifying the towns and villages where our ancestors used to live can be a critical step in finding relevant sources of genealogical information. This free presentation demonstrates the methods and techniques of using such resources in order to enable correlating information from multiple data sources and facilitate locating our ancestral towns in Central and Eastern Europe.
Ed Mitukiewicz will lead the presentation. Mitukiewicz is a mathematician and computer scientist by education, researcher and technology consultant by profession, and amateur cartographer and genealogist by coincidence. He has presented illustrative scenarios using historical maps in genealogical research at a number of genealogy conferences in Poland, Israel, and the United States.
For additional information, contact Renata Vickrey at vickreyr@ccsu.edu or 860-832-2085.