Poland Websites: Difference between revisions

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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[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

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.
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

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Civil Record Office Addresses

Directories[edit | edit source]

Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Genealogy[edit | edit source]

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Galizien German Descendants
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
Kashubian Links
Poland Genealogy Links
Poland Genealogy Resources by FEEFHS
PolandGenWeb
Poland Information & Resources
Polish Genealogy Links
PolishRoots
Search Rzeszów Vital Records
Research group for the Schlawe district
Rummelsburg Genealogy and history of the Rummelsburg (now Miastka, Poland), county.
Pommernkontakte Pommern researcher contacts, data sharing, and guidelines for researchers.
Kartenmeister Polish-German and German-Polish place name changes.
Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities in Poland & Russia

General Information[edit | edit source]

Heraldry[edit | edit source]

History[edit | edit source]

Timeline of Polish History Polish History timeline.
The History of Poland

Historical Geography[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Concentration Camp Oswiecim
Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps
Gesher Galicia The Special Interest Group for Galicia
Jewish Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki article
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Home Page
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.
Łódź Ghetto Cemetery Burial Lists
Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Łódź Jewish Cemetery
Virtual Shtetl

Language and Languages[edit | edit source]

Maps[edit | edit source]

Maps of Gdansk Pomerania
Maps of Polish Localities
Polish Map
Polish Map
Older map of Poland
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.

Names Personal[edit | edit source]

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.

Societies[edit | edit source]

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

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 *[http://www.polandembassy.org/ Polish Embassy]
 *[http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/lang-en/news.html State Archives of Poland]
-*[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en PRADZIAD Parish Registers &amp; Civil Registration]
+*[http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/en/data-bases.html State Archives of Poland Databases]
-*[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/sezam.php?l=en SEZAM Archive Inventories]
+**[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/ela.php?l=en ELA Population Registers]
+**[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/iza.php?l=en IZA Archival Fonds]
+**[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en PRADZIAD Parish Registers &amp; Civil Registration]
+**[http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/sezam.php?l=en SEZAM Archive Inventories]
 *[http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Religious_Communities_Archives/Europe/Poland/index.shtml UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Poland]
 *[http://www.katowice.ap.gov.pl/ State Archives of Katowice]