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 *From 1900–15, many Poles settled in '''Chicago, New York City, Connecticut, New York State, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts'''.
 *From 1870–1914, 3.6 million Poles left from the three empires that controlled Poland. The Russian Poles constituted 53%, those from Galicia 43%, and the Prussian Poles 4% of the total Polish immigration from 1895–1911.
-=== Finding an Emigrant’s Town of Origin  ===
-Once you have found your immigrant ancestor, you must determine the city or town the ancestor was from. Poland has no nationwide index to birth, marriage, or death records or other records needed for genealogical research.<br>Several sources may give your ancestor’s place of origin. Family members or a library may have documents that name the city or town, such as: birth, marriage, and death certificates.
-*Obituaries
-*Journals
-*Photographs
-*Letters
-*Family Bibles
-*Church certificates or records
-*Naturalization applications and petitions
-*Passenger lists
-*Passports
-*Family heirlooms
-Sometimes it is possible to guess where an immigrant originated through [[Surname Distribution Maps|surname distribution maps]].
-Additional information about finding the origins of immigrant ancestors is given in [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]].
 === Passenger Lists  ===