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MyHeritage Places and Ethnicities Poland

Using MyHeritage to research Polish family history and to find living relatives in Poland

Zbigniew Stettner
Apr 14, 2023
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Welcome
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Introduction
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MyHeritage Polish Collections
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Neighboring Countries
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Other Collections
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Family Trees
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

This lecture will describe the ways to use various resources available through MyHeritage to find information about ancestors originating in Poland and to find relatives that still may live there. Zbigniew will focus on a unique resource: family trees uploaded by individual users from Poland. In most cases, they started a few years ago at the beginning of a big wave of popularity of family history research. The concern about privacy was not that strong yet so thousands of people uploaded their information and made it available through MyHeritage making it a unique source that is not available anywhere else. Learn the strategies for using this kind of information, its advantages, and possible traps.

About the speakers

About the speakers

Zbigniew Stettner
Zbigniew has over 10 years of experience in research in Poland and Central Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Slovakia). He worked also as a guide for, mostly, Americans visiting the places their families originated from. Have experience in citi
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    Allison Willis
    2 years ago

    Awesome as usual!!!!

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  2. BL
    Bill Lewis
    2 years ago

    This webinar provided direction to databases that may contain family left behind when my great grandfather emigrated to the US in the early 1900’s.

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  3. RK
    Roberta King
    2 years ago

    Great to see webinar on Polish research. More please!

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    Mrs Chris Wright
    2 years ago

    Really excellent information! Thankyou!

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  5. KF
    Kevin Flynn
    2 years ago

    Very well done and interesting! Making me seriously consider joining MyHeritage to research my Polish ancestors.

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  6. KD
    Karen Drenzek
    2 years ago

    Interesting information. I need to work on this part of my tree and look into the databases mentioned.

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  7. BD
    Barbara Di Mambro
    2 years ago

    New insights to Polish research

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  8. CW
    Cynthia Ward
    2 years ago

    Interesting.

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