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
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
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
A few years ago, I wrote down the memories of my grandparents (my mother’s parents) from World War II. Some of them were published in the Zamość Cultural Quarterly No. 4/2016. I also spoke about them on Catholic Radio Zamość: https://www.radiozamosc.pl/wiadomosci/1949,agnieszka-olech Below, I present the entire memoirs of my grandparents – Franciszka Łojko – née
Hello! Today’s topic is so important for everyone, because this could soon happen to you too (regardless of your PESEL number). Have you, or your parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles, ever searched for personal documents from companies that were once liquidated? Or perhaps someone close to you is about to retire and wants to calculate
What should you do when your company’s documentation just keeps growing? Are you forced to buy new cabinets and furnish new rooms? No, there’s a concept called disposition—or destruction. This is addressed in the 2015 Regulation of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, available at the following link: http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU20150001743/O/D20151743.pdf It’s worth noting that at
