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=== Church Directories === | === Church Directories === | ||
*[http://www.kuria.gliwice.pl/ Roman Catholic Diocese in Gliwice] | |||
*[http://www.luteranie.pl/pl/?D=2 Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses] Polish Evangelical website with all diocese addresses and individual parishes and email addresses. | |||
=== Civil Registration === | === Civil Registration === | ||
Revision as of 10:38, 16 November 2009
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. The Poland research websites are also listed as "Favorites" at the Family History Library:
Archives & Libraries[edit | edit source]
- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
- Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Poland
- Polish Embassy
- State Archives of Poland
- PRADZIAD Parish Registers & Civil Registration
- SEZAM Archive Inventories
- UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Poland
- 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.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
- Church Inventory Genealogia Polska
- Lutheran Church in Poland
- Poland's Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses
- Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (Amen)
- Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (Opoka)
- Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (PolandGenWeb)
- Roman Catholic Parish Directory at KATOLIK
- Directory of Religious Archives - Poland
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese Katowice webpage
Church Directories[edit | edit source]
- Roman Catholic Diocese in Gliwice
- Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses Polish Evangelical website with all diocese addresses and individual parishes and email addresses.
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Directories[edit | edit source]
Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]
- Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850–1934 Resource Guide
- Hamburg Passenger Lists 1890-1914 online index
- Hamburg Passenger Lists FamilySearch Wiki article
- Germans from Russia Wiki page discusses strategies for finding German-speaking immigrants to Russia and Poland.
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia
- Geneteka Database
- German Polish place names in Polish Russia
- Poland Genealogy links
- PolandGenWeb
- Polish Genealogy Links
- Polish Genealogy Research in Detroit, Michigan
- PolishRoots
- Search Rzeszów Vital Records
General Information[edit | edit source]
Heraldry[edit | edit source]
History[edit | edit source]
- Timeline of Polish History Polish History timeline.
- The History of Poland
Jewish Records[edit | edit source]
- Concentration Camp Oswiecim
- Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps
- Gesher Galicia The Special Interest Group for Galicia
- Jewish Genealogy Research Outline
- Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Home Page
- The Routes to Roots Foundation Archive Database
- Genealogy Indexer Historical directories (business, address, telephone, etc.), yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust), and lists of Polish military officers. Most of the directories are from Poland, Galicia, or Romania.
- We Remember Jewish Rozhan! Example of a Jewish town history (Yitzkor book translations).
- Yad Vashem Site for Jewish Holocaust-Shoah victim's names with pages of testimony.
Language and Languages[edit | edit source]
- German Genealogical Word List
- Gothic Handwriting Resource Guide
- Latin Genealogical Word List
- Polish Genealogical Word List
- Polish Letter Writing Guide
- Slownik Nazwisk Database
Maps[edit | edit source]
Societies[edit | edit source]
- East European Genealogical Society
- Federation of East European Family History Societies
- Kashubian Institute
- 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
- 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