Cecile Wendt Jensen

Cecile (Ceil) Wendt Jensen is a Certified Genealogist and owner of Michigan Polonia. An author, educator and researcher, Ceil is a native of Detroit. She is a former vice president of the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan. She served as their representative to the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Ceil is a graduate of Michigan State University and spent 30 years in K-12 education, where she pioneered multimedia technology integration in the classroom.

In 1998, Ceil began a transition from public education to genealogy and has become a featured international speaker. She has conducted research in Poland at libraries, civil and diocesan archives, and in local parishes. She’s the lead developer of the Polonica Americana Research Institute on the historic Polish-American campus of Orchard Lake, Mich. Her published articles have appeared in National Genealogical Society’s NGS Magazine, Ancestry Magazine, FEEFHS Journal, Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan’s Polish Eaglet and online in Gen Dobry.