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Links to those gazetteers, and more instructions, can be found in the article [[Poland Gazetteers|'''Poland Gazetteers'''.]]
Links to those gazetteers, and more instructions, can be found in the article [[Poland Gazetteers|'''Poland Gazetteers'''.]]
You might just locate the parish churches which appear to be closest to your town of village.  This is not foolproof, as they may have been built more recently, or had boundaries to the parish that stretched in a different direction excluding your town.  However, if you write to the wrong parish, they will forward your request to the correct parish. Here are two directories for parish address:<br>
You might just locate the parish churches which appear to be closest to your town of village.  This is not foolproof, as they may have been built more recently, or had boundaries to the parish that stretched in a different direction excluding your town.  However, if you write to the wrong parish, they will forward your request to the correct parish. Here are two directories for parish address:<br>
*[http://www.thecatholicdirectory.com/directory.cfm?fuseaction=show_country&country=PL  '''The Catholic Directory, Poland''']
*[http://www.luteranie.pl/kontakt.html# '''Luteranie.pl''']: Polish Evangelical website with all current diocese addresses and individual parishes and email addresses. Many Lutheran parishes that existed before the 1918/1945 boundary changes no longer exist. Some of their records are in the diocese archives, and some were sent to [https://www.archion.de/de/browse/#https://www.archion.de/de/browse/&path=3 Archion: Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin.]


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