Poland Websites

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. The Poland research websites are also listed as "Favorites" at the Family History Library:

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Archives & Libraries

Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Poland
Polish Embassy
State Archives of Poland
PRADZIAD Parish Registers & Civil Registration
SEZAM Archive Inventories
UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Poland
State Archives of Katowice
State Archives of Wrocław
State Archives in Leszno
State Archives in Opole
State Archives in Lublin
State Archives in Tarnόw
State Archives in Krakόw
State Archives in Poznań
State Archives in Warsaw
State Archives in Zamośc
State Archives Gdańsk
State Archives in Bydgoszcz
State Archives in Siedlce
State Archives in Zielona Gora
State Archives in Płock
State Archives in Przemyśl
State Archives in Czestochowa
Staatsarchiv Breslau Information about the State Archives in Breslau and information about Kreis Oels.

Church Records

Church Directories

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

Civil Record Office Addresses

Directories

Emigration and Immigration

Hamburg Passenger Lists FamilySearch Wiki article. Note: the old Hamburg Passenger Lists Resource Guide has been incorporated into this article.
Hamburg Passenger Lists 1890-1914 online index
Germans from Russia discusses strategies for finding German-speaking immigrants to Russia and Poland.

Genealogy

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
Poland Genealogy links
PolandGenWeb
Polish Genealogy Links
Polish Genealogy Research in Detroit, Michigan
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

Heraldry

History

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

Historical Geography

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

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

Maps

Polish Map
Polish Map
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

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

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