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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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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