Poland Websites

The following websites are only a small sample of the wonderful sites that can be found to help with Polish genealogical research. It is not possible to give all the websites available for each category. However, those provided should emphasize the use of the Internet to further Polish research and knowledge of Polish ancestors' homeland.

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Archives & Libraries

Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
Digital Library of Wielkopolska Books for the Poznan province.
Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Poland
Polish Embassy
Polish Digital Library Collection
Silesian Digital Library Books in German and Polish can be downloaded to your computer.
State Archives in Poland with contact details, list of collection and description how to order records
Church Archives in Poland with contact details, list of collection and description how to order records
State Archives of Poland
State Archives of Poland Databases
- ELA Population Registers
- IZA Archival Fonds
- PRADZIAD Parish Registers & Civil Registration
- SEZAM Archive Inventories
State Archives of Katowice
State Archives of Wrocław
State Archives in Leszno
State Archives in Opole
State Archives in Lublin
State Archives in Tarnόw
State Archives in Krakόw
State Archives in Poznań
State Archives in Warsaw
State Archives in Zamośc
State Archives Gdańsk
State Archives in Bydgoszcz
State Archives in Siedlce
State Archives in Zielona Gora
State Archives in Płock
State Archives in Przemyśl
State Archives in Czestochowa
Staatsarchiv Breslau Information about the State Archives in Breslau and information about Kreis Oels.
UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Poland

Cemeteries

Church Records

Church Inventory Genealogia Polska
Lutheran Church in Poland
Poland's Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Katowice
Roman Catholic Church Registers Online
Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland
Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (Opoka)
Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (PolandGenWeb)
Roman Catholic Parish Directory at KATOLIK
Polish Parish Address Finder This site will help you find addresses to Catholic parishes, and when available their email or web address.

Church Directories

Roman Catholic Diocese in Gliwice
Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses Polish Evangelical website with all diocese addresses and individual parishes and email addresses.
Evangelical Diocese in Wrocław
Roman Catholic Diocese in Legnica
Parishes in Upper Silesia Catholic and Lutheran parish designations for Oberschlesien. This list includes a list of all villages in the parish boundaries. The site also gives starting dates of church books available for parishes in Oberschlesien.
Roman Catholic Dioceses Directory
Lutheran parishes of the Vistula region
Roman Catholic Diocese in Łodz
Polish Parish Address Finder This site will help you find addresses to Catholic parishes, and when available their email or web address.

Civil Registration

Civil Record Office Addresses This site gives the civil registration office addresses, and when available, email and website information.

Directories

Emigration and Immigration

Hamburg Passenger Lists FamilySearch Wiki article. Note: the old Hamburg Passenger Lists Resource Guide has been incorporated into this article.
Germans from Russia discusses strategies for finding German-speaking immigrants to Russia and Poland.

Gazetteers

Genealogy

FB Polish Genealogy Group Aid website
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Galician Genealogy
Galizien German Descendants
Genealogy Indexer
Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia
Geneteka Database
German Polish place names in Polish Russia
Guide to Parishes and Villages in the Former Archdiocese of Wilno
Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities in Poland & Russia
Kartenmeister Polish-German and German-Polish place name changes.
Kashubian Links
Klub-Beskid Forum for French people with Polish ancestry.
Poland Genealogy Links
Poland Genealogy Resources by FEEFHS
PolandGenWeb
Poland Information & Resources
Polish Parish Extraction Project Extensive extraction of Catholic Church records for the parishes of Medrzechow, Kupienin and Samocice.
PolishOrigins
PolishRoots
Pommernkontakte Pommern researcher contacts, data sharing, and guidelines for researchers.
Research group for the Schlawe district
Rummelsburg Genealogy and history of the Rummelsburg (now Miastka, Poland), county.
Search Rzeszów Vital Records
Stanczyk - Internet Muse Russian-Poland, in particular the Kielce Gubernia.
Zippnow Catholic Church Parish Records

General Information

Heraldry

History

Historical Geography

Eastern Borderlands Places
Lower Silesia Niederschlesien with Kreis (county) information for each county and town history (timelines, etc.).
Counties, Districts, Cities, and Towns in the Kujawsko-Pomorski Province

Jewish Records

Am haZikaron - the Institute of Science and Heritage of the Jewish People
Avotaynu
Concentration Camp Oswiecim
Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps
Genealogy Indexer Historical directories
Gesher Galicia The Special Interest Group for Galicia
Gesher Galicia Database The All Galicia Database
JewishGen
Jewish Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki article
Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Home Page (the largest fully searchable database of indexes to Jewish vital records accessible online).
Jewish Web Index
Łódź Ghetto Cemetery Burial Lists
Łódź Jewish Cemetery
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Routes to Roots Foundation Archive Database
Shabbat Goy Information about more than 200 concentration camps, Jewish synagogues and cemeteries in Poland
Virtual Shtetl
Warsaw Ghetto Database
Warsaw Jewish Cemetery at Okopowa Street and Jewish cemeteries in Mazovia
We Remember Jewish Rozhan!
Yad Vashem Site for Jewish Holocaust-Shoah victim's names with pages of testimony.
Search for Victims of Oppression.

Language and Languages

Maps

Maps of Gdansk Pomerania
Maps of Polish Localities
Maps of Western Poland
Old Maps of Poland
Polish Map
Polish Map
Polish Military Geographical Institute (1919-1939)
Name Mapping Tool by Moikrevni
Name Mapping Tool by Genpol Surname distribution sites show where names are and indicate where the heaviest distributions of names can be found.

Military Records

Names Personal

Name Mapping Tool by Moikrevni
Name Mapping Tool by Genpol Surname distribution sites show where names are and indicate where the heaviest distributions of names can be found.
Slownik Nazwisk Database

Regional Research

Research in Middle Poland
Oberschlesien researchThis is a lengthy list of many sites to help with research in this region. Address books of several cities are also available for download.

Societies

East European Genealogical Society
Federation of East European Family History Societies
Kashubian Association of North America
Poland Genweb with links and lots of transcribed parish records.
Polish Genealogical Society of America
Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast, Inc.
Polish Genealogical Society of Texas
Pomeranian Genealogical Association
Pommeranian Society with tips, links and some books to purchase
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (ethnic Germans living in Russian Poland and Volhynia (the northwestern part of the Ukraine))
International Tracing Service Post WWII tracing services for Jewish people, displaced people, and prisoners of war.
Polish Genealogical Society of California
Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan
Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota
Toledo Polish Genealogical Society
List of Genealogical Societies in Poland
Worsten Genealogical Society
The former German Kreis of Lauban and information regarding parish locations and finding records.

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