Poland Genealogy

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Getting started with Poland research

There is a site for digitized books of Silesia. These books are mostly in German and Polish and you can download them to your computer.

Select for Digitized books of Poznan.

Select for Poznan Marriage Indexing Project .

See the FamilySearch Tutorials on Polish Research including help in "Reading Polish Handwritten Records". 

Polish Partitions

• Austrian Poland
• Prussian Poland
• Russian Poland

Research Tools

See the FamilySearch Tutorials on Polish Research, including help in "Reading Polish Handwritten Records"

• Beginning Polish Research
• Boundary Changes
• Civil Registration Office Address Finder
• Counties of Poland 1999
• Emigration Records of Europe
• Join the Facebookor Skype Poland Genealogy Research Community
• Gazetteers and Maps Online
• Holdings of the Polish State Archives
• Kartenmeister - German/Polish Place Name Conversion
• Letter Writing Guide
• Polish Research Outline
• Postal codes
• Parish Finding aid
  (Search only works with correct Polish diacritical marks)
• Research Outline for Poland by BYU
• Websites
• Word List

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Poland, Roman Catholic Church Books (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Online Databases

• Geneteka Database Church Registers Indexing Project
• Pomeranian Genealogical Association Pomeranian church books
• Pomeranian Genealogical Association Pomeranian cemeteries
• Poznan Marriage Indexing Project
• Roman Catholic Church Registers Online
• Church Registers Indexing - Region Lublin

Did you know?

Extensive extraction of Catholic Church records for the parishes of Medrzechow, Kupienin and Samocice, Poland have been completed and are available through the Family History Library. For more information regarding this project, select Polish Parish Extraction Project.

Who are the Kashubians? Read more about this ethnic group.

News and Events

An outstanding publication Finding records of your ancestors, Poland 1808 to 1900 is now available for download.

This color publication shows how to find records of a family who lived in Poland from 1808 to 1900. It tells you which records to use and how to search them. It also introduces you to the research tools you will need. A case study illustrates each step of the research process.

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Beginner's Corner

Getting Started What's the Next Step? Finding your Ancestor in the Records Tips for Beginners Tips for Polish American Researchers

News

An outstanding publication Finding records of your ancestors, Poland 1808 to 1900 is now available. Click hereto download.

Topics

Archives and Libraries Biography Cemeteries Census Church Directories Church History Church Records Poland Cities and towns Civil Registration- Vital Records Court Records Cultural and Ethnic Groups in Poland Directories Emigration and Immigration Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Gazetteers Genealogy Handbooks and Guides for Research Heraldry Historical Geography History Jewish Records Land and Property Language and Languages Maps Military Records Minorities Names, Personal Nobility Orphans and orphanages Periodicals Probate Records Social Life and Customs Societies

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