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 them: Ukrainian, Belarusian […]
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New batch of scanned records from Polish Archives
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 resources useful in family research. In one of […]
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Poznań – Citizen Registration Cards
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 city for a longer period –place of […]
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Polish State Archives’ records on-line
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 you will need […]
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