Agenda
Welcome to JGSPBC’s November 2025 meeting!. We’d love to see you here in person, but if that’s not possible, please join us via Zoom
Sunday, November 16, 2025
- 12:30 pm – Light refreshments and Schmooze
- 1:00 pm – Presentation with Michelle Chubenko
Location
The meeting will be held at Canyon Branch of the Palm Beach County Library – Meeting Room B -8915 Senator Joe Abruzzo Ave, Boynton Beach. Please note: This event is not sponsored/endorsed by the Palm Beach County Library System.
Speaker / Program
About the Meeting: Michelle Chubenko will provide an introduction to the languages and handwriting used in Galician records and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the tools you can use to decipher and translate records written in Latin, German, Polish and Ukrainian including using AI to assist with foreign language documents.
About our Speaker: Michelle Tucker Chubenko, AG®, AGL™ is accredited in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) and specializes in the Mid-Atlantic region and Eastern European research. She is a founding member with the “Nashi Predky/Our Ancestors” Family History Group at the Ukrainian History and Education Center (Somerset, New Jersey) and in 2023, coordinated the institute course Researching Your Ancestry in the Crownland of Galicia, Austria-Hungary. Since 2021, she has hosted a monthly Q&A Zoom session Have Questions? Get Answers for Research in Galicia.