Polish Citizenship Confirmation procedure is one of three ways of securing Polish Citizenship - which is also European citizenship. The other two are Presidential grant and residency. As the grant has, especially nowadays, very low success rate and the residency is most often brushed aside due to the requirements linked to it, the confirmation is the most efficient way to secure one a Polish-European citizenship. The only requirement is having Polish ancestry. ...

Do you know The Serfenta Association? They are team of basketry enthusiasts, looking after this handicraft art, so it won’t be forgotten. They teach young people to become experts in a dying skill. They helps master basket-makers get into the market.  They show this beautiful craft to the whole world. ...

November is fast approaching, which in our culture is a month of reflection, the time when we remember the deceased members of our families. Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to visit the graves of their ancestors, light a candle and say a prayer. The problem is especially for those who live far beyond Polish borders, but not only! ...

It might seem that maps when doing ancestors research are not a very useful attribute – after all, searching for ancestors is not a search for a buried treasure. Perhaps this does not apply to any genealogist passionate. Nevertheless I suppose that many of those who have decided on this journey, at a certain stage of the search, come to the conclusion that the maps are as necessary for the process as metrical records. ...

Many beginning genealogists are prone to almost limitless confidence in the metrics found. What’s more – sometimes  ven more experienced researchers are too often tempted to put their faith in discovered records. This is associated with a specific intuition when we subjectively assess the reliability of data contained in documents. ...

What exactly does ArsReco do? Our work consists of identifying and organizing unknown photographs from family archives. We do not identify people in the pictures, but places where the photography was taken. Which often allows us to assign a particular photo to a specific person, event, time. ...

Before talking about the portals and programs for building a family tree – those available both on the Internet and possible to be installed on a computer, it is worth passing a few words about what connects them, namely GEDCOM. ...