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 will indicate the areas where it is represented far more often compared to other parts of Poland. Nazwiska Polskie The database is called Nazwiska Polskie (meaning „Polish […]
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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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Katalogi miast Polski
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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German names of Polish cities, towns and villages
It was a common practice during the partition of Poland to rename cities, towns and villages from Polish to German. If you do not know the Polish name of the place your ancestors originated from, the research may be a challenge as the German names are not in use anylonger. Kartenmeister www.kartenmeister.com is the biggest […]
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