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 almost 4. million records from Polish cemeteries and graveyards. Although there is no English version of the website, it is very intuitive and easy to use. There […]
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Vital records from Pomerania
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: www.ptg.gda.pl/index.php/certificate/action/searchD/ The database is constantly growing and new indexes are […]
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Surname distribution in Poland
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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