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 Polish surnames) and […]
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Archival records from South – East Poland
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 accommodates notarial acts, school […]
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Poland city directories
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. Genealogy indexer Genealogy indexer www.genealogyindexer.org is a powerful search engine. […]
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Vital records from Podlasie and Mazovia
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 at www.indeksy.projektpodlasie.pl/index.php/rejestracja you will get access […]
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Polish Borderlands (Kresy) part 2 – Volhynia
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 Luck and of Lviv. It interlinks […]
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