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Research Use: Useful when there are gaps in church and other registers. Military records provide place of birth or origin, names of parents, and sometimes other family relationships are also given. The value of these records is severely limited, however, because they are not organized in a user friendly way. This problem can be overcome if indexes are available. | Research Use: Useful when there are gaps in church and other registers. Military records provide place of birth or origin, names of parents, and sometimes other family relationships are also given. The value of these records is severely limited, however, because they are not organized in a user friendly way. This problem can be overcome if indexes are available. | ||
Record Type: Military service records including muster rolls, conscription lists and draft registers. After the partitions, each area of Poland had its own distinctive system of keeping military records pertaining to the Austrian, Russian, or Prussian government. | Record Type: Military service records including muster rolls, conscription lists (Spis Poborowych) and draft registers. After the partitions, each area of Poland had its own distinctive system of keeping military records pertaining to the Austrian, Russian, or Prussian government. | ||
Time Period: about 1500 to present. | Time Period: about 1500 to present. | ||
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