Hello, Welcome everyone to the New Year 2026. Today I’ll show you my archival family photos, mostly black and white or sepia, that I once scanned (that’s the way it’s supposed to be done 😉 and then colored in one of the photo editing programs. And the result truly exceeded my wildest expectations. Of course,
Some time ago, I came across a diary (two copies) from my mother-in-law, Stasia Stanisława’s, school days from the village of Płoskie (near Zamość) from the early 1970s. Take a look at the rhymes, wishes, poems, and graphics people wrote back then 😉 Honestly, I’d love to get back into writing diaries. Children these days
When describing the history of the village of Pańków, one can, of course, cite the definition from Józef Niedźwiedź’s Historical Lexicon of the Villages of the Former Zamość Voivodeship[1]. I know Pańków from a slightly different perspective. Namely, I was born there and lived there for the first 11 years of my life. I remember
Those who had one know what I mean, and those who didn’t know, too 😊 I’m talking about diaries, of course. Years later, they remain an invaluable treasure trove of memories. In a diary, each entry is unique, because everyone had a different handwriting style, drawing/painting unique and unrepeatable pictures. Finally, to include the text
Surely, every one of you has encountered a meme at least once while browsing the Internet. What exactly is a meme? And what role does it play in the modern world? Or perhaps we should ask, “What would happen if memes didn’t exist?” And what does it have to do with archiving? Let me start
Today’s topic is a bit lighter: how to save an interesting article to your hard drive. I know from you that before you go to the State Archives, and even before you start searching on websites like www.szukajwarchiwach.pl, you start your archival searches (and any other kind – sorry, that’s our climate 😉) with Uncle
To celebrate the end of the year, I decided to clean up my old photos and other important documents, which were either still in paper format or had been copied to CDs and DVDs, which had already deteriorated somewhat. I saved the scans and photos from the discs to an external hard drive. My scanner
The Center for Social Archival Studies was established in February 2020. It is a cultural institution co-led by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the KARTA Center Foundation. As we read on the CAS website, “the establishment of the Center is a public recognition of the importance of social archiving as an important
Friends often ask me where to find archival materials. Some want to start a genealogical search for their ancestors, others need information about a past event. To start, I recommend the website www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl. “Search in Archives is a website whose goal is to provide online descriptions and scans of archival materials from state archives and
Hello and welcome. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t like to brag. But today will be different 😉 Few years ago, on Archivists’ Day – September 30th – the State Archives in Zamość organized an archival competition, and my humble self was one of the winners by correctly answering all the questions. As a
