The Oleszkiewicz Project

Genealogy Societies

• Polish Genealogical Society of America
• Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan
• Western Michigan Genealogical Society

Genealogy Websites

• Family Search - a publicly available database of geneology information maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• Polish Roots - A website devoted to the research of Polish ancestry.
• Ellis Island Foundation - Searchable on-line database of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.

Local History Research Websites

• MI History, Arts, and Libraries - The statewide organization provides research services and certified copies of naturalization records, etc.
• Kent County MI's website - The Kent county clerk can provide certified copies of births, deaths, and marriages that occured in Kent county.
• Ottawa County MI's website - The Ottawa county clerk can provide certified copies of deaths that occurred in Ottawa county.
• Michigan Department of Community Health - This department stores all of the birth, death, marriage, and divorce records for the state of michigan.

Software

• phpGedView - the geneology software used on this website.
• GEDCOM Perl Module - This Perl module was written by Paul Johnson and is what I use for my gedutils scripts
• GDBI - the editor I use to edit the geneology data stored on this website. It is written in java and is still a work-in-progress. If you use it, make sure to give the developers some feedback. They don't get much