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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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
Polish Parish Address Finder This site will help you find addresses to Catholic parishes, and when available their email or web address.

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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

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
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
Kashubian Links
Looking 4 Kin Genealogy & Family History Network - Poland
Poland Genealogy Links
Poland Genealogy Resources by FEEFHS
PolandGenWeb
Poland Information & Resources
PolishOrigins
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]

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(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. Example of a Jewish town history (Yitzkor book translations).
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.

Language and Languages[edit | edit source]

Maps[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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.
Slownik Nazwisk Database

Regional Research[edit | edit source]

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[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
The former German Kreis of Lauban and information regarding parish locations and finding records.