Edward Dzialo

Experience

Edward has over 35 years of genealogical research experience. Beginning in the late 1980s, at age 19, his mentor began sharing her expertise in focused, detailed, in-person research. Cemeteries, courthouses, city halls, and other repositories became his preferred hangouts. He worked avocationally on his own family lines until attending and graduating from Boston University's Genealogy Studies Program in summer 2021. Immediately after, he joined ProGen60, successfully completing their program in December 2022. He has been working with clients since his BU graduation in 2021, helping them unfold their own families' genealogical stories, break through brick walls, determine parentage where it has previously been unknown, understand their DNA matches, and more. Edward is a southern New England native, making Massachusetts and Rhode Island particular areas of genealogical research. As an adult, he has lived in Chicago for over 30 years, so is now adept at Chicago-area genealogy, which would also include the larger state of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Internationally, he has garnered a great deal of experience with French-Canadian, English/Scottish, Irish, German, and particularly Polish genealogy. He has studied Polish, German, French, and Spanish, which greatly aids in making sense of foreign-language records. As of early 2025, he is actively working toward certification through BCG, the Board for Certification of Genealogists. All of his work seeks to uphold BCG's Genealogical Proof Standard.