Jonathan David Shea
Archivist, educator, author
Born Jun. 14, 1951, New Britain (CT), U.S.; son of James and Leocadia (Bryzgiel).
Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (cum laude), Georgetown University, Washington (DC), 1973; Master of Arts (M.A.) (in Slavic languages), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976; Master of Library Sciences (M.L.S.), Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, 1988; certified accredited genealogist, 1994.
Career: in New Britain - interpreter, caseworker, Human Resource Agency, 1976-77; interpreter, school community coordinator, Office of Bilingual Education, 1977-86; archivist, Archives and Resource Center, Polish Genealogical Society, 1984 -, and Polish - American Archives, Central Connecticut State University, 1987-88; instructor, Department of Modern Languages, Central Connecticut State University, 1985 -; free-lance translator and record researcher.
Author: multilingual genealogical guides, 1985, 1991; Directory of the Polish Roman Catholic Parishes in the Territory of the Farmer Russian Partition, 1989; Cemetery Inscriptions - St. Stanislaus Cemetery, Dabrowa Bialostocka, Poland, 1989.
Member of: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL); New England Archivists Association; board directors member, Polish Genealogical Society, Chicago; founder, president, Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut; Polish - American Council of New Britain.
Honors: grant (for New Jersey Polish Cemetery Inscription project), State of New Jersey, 1990; listed in Who's Who in Genealogy & Heraldry, 1990.
Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic.
Languages: English, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French, Byelorussian, Portugal, Ukrainian.
Hobbies: immigration and ethnic history, motorcycling, swimming.
Home: 8 Lyle Road, New Britain, CT 06053.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.