Passaic County Historical Society

2023 Upcoming Events

Michael Buryk is the speaker for the Saturday,  November 18, 2023 10:30am meeting of Passaic County Historical Society Genealogy Club at the Clifton Public Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ.

“A First Taste of Ukrainian Genealogy”

            -presented by Mike Buryk

This program offers an introduction to doing research for those people with Ukrainian ancestors who lived in Ukraine and also southeast Poland.

Mike is a free-lance researcher, writer and speaker on Ukrainian and Lemko genealogy and history. He has given talks on Ukrainian and Lemko genealogy at: the Lemko Vatra in Ellenville, NY, the Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, Pa, the Ukrainian Historical & Educational Center in Somerset, NJ., the Ukrainian Museum and Library in Stamford, Conn., the Polish Genealogy Society of Connecticut and the Northeast, the Polish Genealogy Society of Massachusetts, the Genealogy Society of Bergen County (NJ), the Westfield (NJ) Public Library and the Central New Jersey Genealogy Club. He has also appeared in the Family Historian TV program “Ukrainian Genealogy” which aired in September 2012 on HomeTowne Television (cable) in central New Jersey.

Mike has been active in the Ukrainian American community for more than 40 years. He is a volunteer with the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and on their advisory board. He is a founder of Nashi Predky, a Ukrainian genealogy group that has produced conferences on family history and research at the UkrHEC since 2014. Mike is a member of the Ukrainian American Business & Professional Association. He also participates in Razom IT, which is a NY-based group that is helping Ukrainian tech startups to gain greater exposure locally & to facilitate innovative networking for new entrepreneurs. He hosts and produces two monthly podcasts in English: Krynytsya (the Well), which focuses on the activities of Ukrainians around the world; and, Made in Ukraine Tech Startup Edition, which covers the efforts of Ukrainian tech companies to go global. In his forty-year career as a professional in the field of publishing and advertising, he worked at The New York Times, McGraw-Hill, Public Agenda and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).