Peopling Pennsylvania: Polish Ancestors with Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz

Over 700,000 Polish immigrants came to Pennsylvania in the decades prior to 1920–most in search of work in the local coal and steel industry. Genealogist Julie Szczepankiewicz will guide viewers through online records and strategies for tracing their origins back to the old country!

Part of an HSP 200 anniversary series called Peopling Pennsylvania. Learn more here.

About the Speaker:

Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz is a family historian with 30 years of experience researching her family's origins in Poland, Germany, France, the U.S. and Canada. She currently serves as President of the Polish Genealogical Society of New York State, and previously served as Vice President of the New England Regional Genealogical Consortium, Inc., and Secretary of the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts. She is the author of a genealogy blog, From Shepherds and Shoemakers.