Traces of memory | workshops with Michał Zawada | Layers

What can you discover about your family by looking into the archives? Where to look for information about ancestors and how to get to documents from several decades ago?

We invite you to a workshop with Michał Zawada, a specialist from the State Archives in Lublin, who will show step by step how to use the available sources to learn, for example, the history of your grandparents or great-grandparents. We will also learn how to search for information about the birth, marriage and death of ancestors. We will see if there is a chance to find archival photos of our family or the place where she lived.

Michał Zawada — educator, archivist and data protection inspector by education. Long-term employee of the State Archives in Lublin, and since 2019 the head of the department for safeguarding the archival resource. He participated in many digitization projects, including the Multi-Year Government Project Kultura+ in the years 2011-2015. In previous years he conducted training in the field of digitization of archival materials at the National Digital Archive. He has performed and continues to perform as a speaker at conferences dedicated to the digitization of archives.

When: November 14, 2026 (Saturday), from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Culture Workshops, 5a Grodzka Street, media lab room, 1st floor

For whom: adults

Registration: by online form

Free admission, limited number of places