Q&A on Resources for German Research in Congress Poland and Western Ukraine
This session will be a question and answer follow-up to the March 2026 presentation on the same subject. Attendees are invited to watch or re-watch the presentation and come prepared with questions about resources for searching your German ancestors in Russia-Poland, Eastern Galicia, and Volhynia, including online records, research tools, reference aids, and genealogical society resources.
Joseph B. Everett is the Senior Librarian for Family History, Local History, and Microforms at the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library. He has over 30 years combined experience at BYU, the FamilySearch Library, and Ancestry.com.
He teaches courses in Russian paleography and research in the former Russian Empire/USSR. His past work includes cataloging Eastern European records, content acquisitions and content product, genealogical databases online, including the Hamburg Passenger Lists. Joe earned a degree in Russian Language and in Family History/Genealogy (with a Germanic emphasis) from Brigham Young University.
An Accredited Genealogist in German and Russian Empire research, he has lectured and published articles on family history research, historical geography, and migration.
