Great article about Jon Shea in the Polish American Journal with links to photos: "cooperative activity between a U.S.-based Polish American genealogical society and one based in Poland" http://polamjournal.com/News/Feature/feature.html I might add that the United Polish Genealogical Societies (UPGS) Seminar, hosted by the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan (PGSM) held what is believed to be the first virtual "cooperative activity between a U.S.-based Polish American genealogical society and one based in Poland" during it's April 2008 seminar in Salt Lake. We conducted three lectures with Polish genealogists. Genealogist and techie Tomasz Nitsch, owner of the Polish genealogical site GenPol, arranged for us to have a real time lecture / Q&A with Adam and Ewa Kaminski of the Pomeranian Genealogical Association (Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne) http://upgs.blogspot.com/search?q=Tomek Tomek calls Adam and Ewa " the most genealogical family in Poland". They head a group of researchers indexing Catholic and Evangelical vital records. http://www.ptg.gda.pl/index.php/certificate/action/main/ Using the software known as SKYPE, we listened to Dr. Marek Jerzy Minakowski, a Polish philosopher, historian and genealogist. Currently Minakowski is focused on building the database of descendants of all members of the Great Sejm. http://www.przodkowie.com/ Our last virtual lecture / Q&A was with Lukasz Bielecki and Kasia Grycza. Owners of Discovering Roots http://www.discovering-roots.pl/ They have helped many North Americans find records and visit Poland. Lukasz is head of the database Poznan Project, and will be the guest speaker at the PGSM seminar this October. http://www.pgsm.org/index_039.htm Our other featured speaker is Thaddeus Radzilowski, Ph.D. Please see United Polish Genealogical Seminar Wrap Up at http://upgs.blogspot.com/search?q=Tomek. A printed story about the conference is in the current PGSM journal Polish Eaglet. Ceil