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Locating the grave of a family member may at times bring a breakthrough in the research. The most comprehensive database for Poland is www.grobonet.com. At present it has more than 6 million records from Polish cemeteries and graveyards. Although there is no English version of the website,…
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Members of Pomeranian Genealogical Society (Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne) have indexed nearly 5 million birth, marriage and death records, mainly from the Pomeranian region.
There are three separate search engines, to search for birth records click here: www.ptg.gda.pl/index.php/certificate/action/searchB/, for marriages – here: www.ptg.gda.pl/index.php/certificate/action/searchM and for deaths here:
Finding out if people of the same surname as your ancestors still live in Poland may be of great help in your family research. In some cases it may indicate the areas where it is represented far more often compared to other parts of Poland.
The database is called Nazwiska Polskie (meaning…
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Polish State Archive in Przemyśl is one of the very few archives in Poland that publish scanned resources on their own website. As of today the database contains over 1 million 100 thousand pages of archival documents. Besides vital records from Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes and Jewish communities, it…
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Address, business and phone directories may be an invaluable tool in genealogy research. It can help you locate the place where your ancestors resided at a certain point in time. Not only though. Very often the directories inform on individual’s profession and women’s maiden names.
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If your ancestors were from the area of Radom you may find this website vey useful in your research.
www.archiwaonline.pl/en is the official website of Radom Diocese Archives. It aims to index vital records from 17th to 20th century from all parishes in the Diocese. The…
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A group of volunteers started a project aimed at indexing vital records form a historical region in the eastern part of Poland called Podlasie or Podlachia. The name of the website www.indeksy.projektpodlasie.pl may be misleading as the project also covers a neighbouiring region of Mazowsze (Mazovia).
Once you register…
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Volhynia is historic region in Central and Eastern Europe and a part of the Polish Borderlands. It straddles between south – eastern Poland, parts of south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine.
At www.wolyn-metryki.pl/Wolyn/indexEn.php you will find a search engine for vital records from Roman Catholic parishes of the Dioceses of…
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The term Kresy refers to Eastern part of the Second Polish Republic constituting nearly half of the territory of the state. After WWII the territories were annexed by the Soviet Union. Today they are part of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.
As for the vital records – there are several institutons that store…
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www.szukajwarchiwach.pl is the official website of Polish State Archives. Over 2 million documents have been added recently and now the whole collection exceedes 28 million scans published online.
Besides vital records it contains scans of local censuses, passport applications, students registers, memoirs, cadastres and many many other…
e-kartoteka is a searchable collection of registration cards for both permanent and temporary citizens of Poznań. Cards list all family members and include information such as their names, occupations, dates and places of birth, marriage and deaths (if applies), residence addresses and – if any citizen left the…
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Polish State Archives continue to digitize and publish their records online. As for today nearly 26 million scans including vital records have been made available to view for everyone. Since majority of the records have not been indexed the database will be more useful when searching in a particular location – therefore…
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