Polonica Americana Research Institute
02 April 2009
Polonica Americana Research Institute (PARI)
Contact:
phone: 248-683-0323
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Open each Friday and Saturday 10am - 4pm. It’s best to make an appointment for a consultation.
PARI is a department of The Polish Mission. The Polonica Americana Research Institute (PARI) is a research facility offering workshops, lectures, and seminars. The programs are designed for families interested in Polish heritage and genealogy. We have many parish jubilee books, indexes to burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, and references books for Polish research. Please see the catalog our volunteer Dana has developed: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MiPolonia The majority of our books are in English.
We are accepting family group sheets and decendency charts for our Vertical File as well as enrollment cards of past students and a continue to receive donations for our funeral card collections. We also have three premium databases available in our lab (we have eight computers and wireless). The databases are: Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for Michigan, The Detroit Free Press (1831-1922) and Ancestry for libraries.
Jim Tye has developed a finding aid for articles about Polonia in the Detroit News papers and we are currently downlaoding the .pdf files for ourcollection. We have a Displaced Persons database on our website: http://www.polishmission.com/blog/archives/
Our volunteers come in each week to work on indexing projects. Yesterday we received over 300 family group sheets created by folks born in the 1900s. Many of the family group sheets are from Hammond and East Chicago, Indiana. We are looking for help to index the material.
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