Project: Poland/Resource Library
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How to Begin Your Research (Immigrant Ancestors)
- If you know your ancestors were from Poland, but have yet to find the village where they were born, consider the following:
- U.S. and Canadian Census records: give approximate date of immigration and usually give clues if they were Russian-Polish, Austrian-Polish or German-Polish. This attributes both their ethnicity and of their nationality. More examples would be Austrian-Ruthenian or Russian-Yiddish.
- U.S. Immigration Records: many are recorded online in various websites, but if they cannot be found you can request a copy of the record through The National Archives and Records Administration.
- Passenger Manifest: typically you can research through various genealogy websites to find the ship information when they emigrated from their country. Be aware there are usually two different documents: one from the port where they left Europe (typically always has the name of the village listed where the person lived) and the other from the port when they arrived to their destination (the ship names would be the same and close proximity in date.)
- U.S. World War I or World War II Draft Registration Cards may also have the name of the village included. Please make sure you are looking at the original document and not a transcription.
- You have the name of the village, but it is spelled incorrectly.
- You may have a phonetic recording of your village. Depending on your ancestor's ethnicity, it is wise to study their mother tongue and how they pronounced words. Ask yourself what the transliteration of the village could be? (This goes for surnames as well.)
- You may be able to narrow down the village by looking at lists from various regions.
- If you have the passenger manifest, they may have been traveling with others from the same village.
- A common error found in immigration transcriptions if your ancestors were Polish or Ukrainian: "L", "Z" and "S" (at the beginning of a name or village name) look very similar in cursive. Try all three variations. Also note the Polish letter "ł" simply became "l" (lower case L); although often it is transcribed to the letter "t".
- You have the name of the village, but there are several other villages with the same name.
- Did the census record or immigration record indicate if they were Russian, German/Prussian or Austrian/Galician? This fact will help you to narrow your search to the region of interest.
- Again, find the passenger manifest and study the locations of those who were traveling at the same time, who may have been from nearby villages. You are essentially studying the location of all the other villages. Is there a region in common? This will help you to narrow down the powiat or district.
- Be sure to include other language variations of your ancestor's first name during your search. For example: was his name John? He was not called John before he arrived: he was called Jan or Iwan.
- It cannot be stressed enough, that just because you cannot find material on one website doesn't mean you cannot find it on another. Remember that different sites hold different material and different sites have different people transcribing documents. How one person reads a document could be entirely different than another person.
- If you have exhausted all efforts and cannot find the village, your other option is to test or analyze your DNA. With genetic genealogy, you group your matches and find the common ancestor between them. You can also find an ethnicity in common. Inspect your match's trees from the appropriate lineage and you should be able to come up with some common villages, powiats or regions. Space:Poland,_Historical_Map_Overlay is a page with maps that you can save to your computer to begin charting locations.
General "How-To" sites with more detail:
- FamilyTree Magazine
- Poland Beginning Research
- Poland Research Tips and Strategies
- My Polish Ancestors
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Cyndi's List Poland
- Facebook Polish Genealogy Group
Prussia-Poland | Russia-Poland | Austria-Poland | Present Day Poland with Overlay |
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Prussia, German Empire | Congress Poland, Russian Empire | Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire, et.al. | |
Kartenmeister | 1877 Gazetteer Vol1 Download & 1877 Gazetteer Vol2 Download | Gesher Galicia | |
Meyers Gazetteer | 1827 Gazetteer FamilySearch | Galicia Index | |
Historic Gazetteer | Russian Gazetteer and Guide] | Galizien Deutsche Index | |
Jewish Gen Gazetteer | Jewish Gen Gazetteer | Jewish Gen Gazetteer | |
SGGEE Gazetteer PDF | SGGEE Gazetteer PDF | SGGEE Gazetteer PDF | |
Former Eastern Territories | Former Eastern Territories | Former Eastern Territories |
- The links above provide various indices to villages. FamilySearch.org provides a nice long index of Poland Gazetteers.
- If you have located the village of your ancestor, your next step is to determine their religion and then to find the nearest churches to that village (even if it has one.) Not all villages have a church and not all records will state the village of your ancestor. It is important to research not only the village name of your ancestor, but the nearby villages which also had a church of your ancestor's religion. Not only will the village church house records, but also the district archdioceses of Catholic religions.
- Polish = Roman Catholic, but sometimes Greek Catholic.
- Ruthenian/Ukrainian = Greek Catholic, but sometimes Roman Catholic
- German = Lutheran, Evangelical, Mennonite, etc.
Researching by Location / Wyszukiwanie Według Lokalizacji
Comprehensive sites (all of Poland): START HERE:
- Geneteka If the "skan" is not attached to the transription, it will still state where the person got the information. You will need this as it most likely would be online, but you would have to access it from a different site like the archives or lubgens.
- Skanoteka Genealodzy
- Metryki Genealodzy
- Szukajwarchiwach
- Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
- BaSIA
- FamilySearch Poland Genealogy
- PolandGenWeb
- Foundation for East European Family History Studies
- Geneszukacz Genealodzy
- Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
- JRI-Poland, Jewish & other records
- JewishGen
- Cyndislist Cemeteries & Funeral Homes
- Rootsweb list of Polish Terms
- Minakowski's Great Genealogy
- Metasearch of various databases.
- Cemetery: eCmentarze
- Cemetery: Mogily.pl
Greater Poland Voivodeship aka województwo wielkopolskie
- Geneteka - births, marriages, deaths
- POZNAN PROJECT POZNAN REGION MARRIAGE INDEXING PROJECT FOR 1800-1899
- BaSIA Database of Archival Indexing System
- Protestant Church Records in Nekla, 1819-1835; Nekla, Posen, Preussen - Evangelische Church Records 1819-1835. Nekla Evangelisch Church Records for BMD, 1818 - 1874. Also includes land registers for Nekla, Siedleczek, Gierlatowo, Chlapowo, and Barcyzna as well as some Bible Records, hymns, and photographs of area cemetery headstones.
- Cemetery: Findagrave Wielkopolskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Wielkopolskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Gorzow Wielkopolski
- State Archive in Kalisz
- State Archive in Leszno
- Archive in Płock
- State Archive in Poznan
- Archive in Zielona Góra
- Wielkopolskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne: obituary search engine, search engine for the Prussian army and many other valuable information.
Holy Cross Voivodeship aka województwo świętokrzyskie
- Geneteka
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- Cemetery: Findagrave Świętokrzyskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Świętokrzyskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Kielce
- State Archive in Piotrkow
- State Archive in Radom
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship aka kujawsko-pomorskie
- Geneteka
- Poznan Project
- Genealogiawarchiwach.pl Joint project genealogical State Archives in Torun and Bydgoszcz for the inhabitants of the voivodeship Kuyavia and Pomerania. Civil Birth, Marriage and Death records.
- Szpejankowskich Family Portal; an excellent resource!! More than 70 parish church books from the "DobrinerLand" area of Poland; records for marriages, births & deaths, from the 1700s to the late 1800s. Also has pictures, historical information about the area.
- Cemetery: Findagrave Kujawsko-Pomorskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Kujawsko-Pomorskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- West Prussian Land Records
- State Archive in Bydgoszcz
- State Archive in Toruń
Lesser Poland Voivodeship aka województwo małopolskie
- Geneteka
- Fotolubgens Eastern Poland and Galicia. Search engine for this page is here: Search Engine
- Krakow Town Archives of Former Records
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- Cemetery: Findagrave Małopolskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Małopolskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- Space:Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria
- Census: 1869, 1880, 1890 and 1900 Galician village census statistics. Note that these records do not list individuals; however understanding the village's demographic can also be important.
- State Archive in Katowice
- State Archive in Kielce
- State Archive in Kraków
- State Archive in Rzeszow
- Apokryf Ruski: provides materials about Ukrainian culture and the history of Ukrainians (Ruthenians) in the western part of the Ukrainian ethnic area. See: Łemkowszczyzna
- GesherGalicia Jewish Records & village index
Łódź Voivodeship aka województwo łódzkie
- Geneteka
- Cemetery: Findagrave Łódź
- Cemetery: Grobonet Łódź
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- State Archive in Kalisz
- State Archive in Piotrkow
- State Archive in Płock
- State Archive in Poznan
- State Archive in Radom
- State Archive in Warsaw
Lower Silesian Voivodeship aka dolnośląskie
- Geneteka
- Catholic Church Registers of Klein Tinz- Transcriptions of the Catholic church registers of Klein Tinz, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia from 1791 to 1900. The village is known today as Tyniec Maly, Poland. In English and German. Contains over 3,000 individual records.
- Silesian Genealogy 101
- Cemetery: Findagrave Dolnośląskie
- Cemetery: Dolnośląskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Kalisz
- State Archive in Leszno
- State Archive in Wrocław
Lublin Voivodeship aka województwo lubelskie
- Geneteka
- Fotolubgens Eastern Poland and Galicia. Search engine for this page is here: Search Engine
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- Cemetery: Findagrave Lublin
- Cemetery: Grobonet Lublin
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Kielce
- State Archive in Lublin
- State Archive in Siedlce
- State Archive in Zamosc
- Lublin Genealogical Society
- https://lubgens.eu/index.php = Lublin Roots, https://regestry.lubgens.eu/news.php
- Apokryf Ruski: provides materials about Ukrainian culture and the history of Ukrainians (Ruthenians) in the western part of the Ukrainian ethnic area. See: Chełmszczyzna
Lubusz Voivodeship aka województwo lubuskie
- Geneteka
- https://poznan-project.psnc.pl/search.php - Posen, Prussia
- Szpejankowskich Family Portal; an excellent resource!! More than 70 parish church books from the "DobrinerLand" area of Poland; records for marriages, births & deaths, from the 1700s to the late 1800s. Also has pictures, historical information about the area.
- Cemetery: Findagrave Lubuskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Lubuskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Gorzow Wilkopolski
- State Archive in Leszno
- State Archive in Zielona Góra
Masovian Voivodeship aka województwo mazowieckie
- Geneteka
- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- Poland, Warsaw Death Notices from Nasz Przeglad, 1923 & 1937-1938; via Ancestry.com
- Szpejankowskich Family Portal; an excellent resource!! More than 70 parish church books from the "DobrinerLand" area of Poland; records for marriages, births & deaths, from the 1700s to the late 1800s. Also has pictures, historical information about the area.
- Cemetery: Findagrave Warsaw
- Cemetery: Grobonet Warsaw
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- Warsaw and Praga Homeowner's Lists, from the years 1852, 1864, 1869, 1870, and 1897
- State Archive in Płock
- State Archive in Radom
- State Archive in Siedlce
- State Archive in Warsaw
- https://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/poland/
Opole Voivodeship aka województwo opolskie
- Geneteka
- Cemetery: Findagrave Opole
- Cemetery: Grobonet Opole
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Opole
- Opole Genealogists
Podlaskie Voivodeship aka województwo podlaskie
- Geneteka
- Cemetery: Findagrave Podlaskie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Podlaskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Bilaystok
- State Archive in Siedlce
- State Archive in Suwalki
- Project Podlasie indexes here you will find e.g. indexes of record books and indexes of Old Polish court books from 370 parishes (requires logging in)
- Apokryf Ruski in Podlasie: provides materials about Ukrainian culture and the history of Ukrainians (Ruthenians) in the western part of the Ukrainian ethnic area.
Pomeranian Voivodeship aka województwo pomorskie
- Geneteka
- Westpreussen.de
- Pommerscher Greif
- PTG - Pomeranian Genealogical Association
- Genealogiawarchiwach.pl - Civil Records
- Pomeranian Cemeteries Database
- Findagrave
- Cemetery Search
- Pomeranian Cementeries Database
- eCmentarze.pl
- West Prussian Land Records
- State Archive in Elbląg
- State Archive in Gdansk
- State Archive in Koszalin
- Musolf family Ancestry in West Prussia and Russia
- Family Books
- Stolp Globalindex Search
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
Silesian Voivodeship aka województwo śląskie
- Geneteka
- Fotolubgens Eastern Poland and Galicia. Search engine for this page is here: Search Engine
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- Catholic Church Registers of Klein Tinz- Transcriptions of the Catholic church registers of Klein Tinz, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia from 1791 to 1900. The village is known today as Tyniec Maly, Poland. In English and German. Contains over 3,000 individual records.
- Silesian Genealogy 101
- Cemetery: Findagrave Silesian
- Cemetery: Grobonet Slaskie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- Space:Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria
- Census =1869, 1880, 1890 and 1900 Galician village census statistics. Note that these records do not list individuals; however understanding the village's demographic can also be important.
- State Archive in Częstochowa
- State Archive in Katowice
- Genealogical Society of the Częstochowa Land contains record indexes available after logging in.
- Silesian Genealogical Society
Subcarpathian Voivodeship aka województwo podkarpackie
- Geneteka
- Fotolubgens Eastern Poland and Galicia. Search engine for this page is here: Search Engine
- Metryki.GenBaza.pl - How to use Metryki.GenBaza.pl: pdf download
- List of parishes and records, starting on pg. 47. List of documents and register books of the Przemyśl Diocese Archives. Author: ks. Jan Kwolek - Director of the Archives of the Przemyśl Diocese. Publication date 1927. I hope this will clear up the damage caused by WWII and the Russian Invasion. It was the Soviet army that was stationed in the Archdiocese of Przemyśl. Fr. Kwolek died after an illness and suffering caused by the awareness of the enormity of damage caused to the heritage of generations (Soviet troops burned books from this archive before his eyes. Until the end of his life, he could not come to terms with it.) Record extracts in the Diocesan Archives of Przemysl. List of Parishes start at page 14.
- Rzeszów Vital Records
- Cemetery: Findagrave Podkarpackie
- Cemetery: Grobonet Podkarpackie
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- List of 150 overgrown Polish cemeteries to be restored this summer, many of which are in the former eastern Galicia. http://www.studiowschod.pl/artykuly/lista-150-cmentarzy-do-ratowania-x-edycja-akcji-mogile-pradziada-ocal-od-zapomnienia-8-18-lipca-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0wIXuuq9vGufFwq-yq3X1IW3a44Clov7Ftaj55itFWbzTLBW4j_kmJeLU
- Space:Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria
- Census =1869, 1880, 1890 and 1900 Galician village census statistics. Note that these records do not list individuals; however understanding the village's demographic can also be important.
- State Archive in Kielce
- State Archive in Kraków
- State Archive in Przemyśl
- State Archive in Rzeszow
- Apokryf Ruski: provides materials about Ukrainian culture and the history of Ukrainians (Ruthenians) in the western part of the Ukrainian ethnic area. See: Łemkowszczyzna and Bojkowszczyzna
- GesherGalicia (Jewish Records)
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship aka województwo warmińsko-mazurskie
- Geneteka
- Marriages in Plauschwarren 1778-1802
- Findagrave.com
- Cemetaries in Warmian-Masurian
- eCmentarze.pl
- West Prussian Land Records
- State Archive in Elbląg
- State Archive in Olsztyn
- State Archive in Suwalki
- State Archive in Toruń
- State Archive in Warsaw
- Ortsfamilienbuch Kreis Oletzko / Treuburg
- Allenstein Project Allenstein archive index
West Pomeranian Voivodeship aka województwo zachodniopomorskie
- Geneteka
- Findagrave
- Cemetary Search
- Cemetery: eCmentarze.pl
- State Archive in Koszalin
- State Archive in Poznan
- State Archive in Szczecin
- Kolberger Land Family Research
- Pommerscher.org
Military / Wojskowy
- Polish Military History
- Geneszukacz wyszukiwarka nazwisk w bazach PTG: A service of Polish Genealogical Society (Polish Genealogical Association). Includes a parish registers indexing project, a public registers indexing project, Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States, the list of casualties of the Polish Army, killed in action or died from wounds from the years 1918-1920, and an index of soldiers of the Polish Legions from the years 1918-1920.
- Polish Soldiers Who Died in France; and index of Polish Soldiers who died during the Second World War and were buried in different cemeteries in France
- Polish War Graves in Scotland
- World War II Military Cemeteries - (in Polish)
- Hallers Army Index; the Polish Army in France
- https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/03/galician-military-records/?fbclid=IwAR3RX8o-7pPm4i2B43FXfkqxKZFlMKhiehG4wbdOt-nk3JCBOpm6GZDF5B8 (James Heffernan, 3/5/2021): "Military records from Galicia (1865-1918) are today held by the Central State Historical Archives in Lviv, Ukraine. Starting in 1868, the Austrian Empire mandated that all able-bodied men serve in the military for a period of three years.
- http://www.polishwargraves.nl/ (Netherlands)
- Space:Cemeteries,_Military_Cemeteries_in_Poland (A working list on Wikitree: Polish, American, German, Russian, etc.)
- Projekt Wojak -database of soldiers, primarily from Galicia
Holocaust / Zagłada
- Shtetles in Poland
- Holocaust categories
- Keilce District Survivors, 1945
- Residents of Auschwitz (Oshpitsin); Poland, 1919-1941(Ancestry Database Search)
- Holocaust Database, JewishGen Database
- Captured German Records; records include those from Buchenwald, Natzweiler, Mauthausen, Sandbostel, Bergen Belsen, Constanz, Gross Rosen, Sangerhausen; war criminal lists; transport lists from Berlin, Flossenburg, Natzweiller, Bavaria, Austria.
- Arolsen Archives provides information on all ethnic groups affected by the Holocaust.
- Virtual Shtetl – a site about Polish shtetls. It has a glossary of towns and a genealogy search engine.
- Space:Cemeteries,_Jewish_Cemeteries_in_Poland (This is a working list of Jewish Cemeteries found in Poland, in agreement with Jewish Roots Project)
- Personal losses and victims of repression under German occupation 1939-1945
Pacification / Pacyfikacje (1939-1946)
The projected goal of pacification operations was to prevent and suppress the Polish resistance movement in World War II (by massacre). 1939-1946.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacification_actions_in_German-occupied_Poland
- https://ipn.gov.pl/en/news/8443,Pacification-operations-in-the-Polish-countryside-during-World-War-II-Fate-and-r.html
- Personal losses and victims of repression under German occupation 1939-1945
Volhynia Massacre / Zbrodnia Wołyńska (1943-1945)
"The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńska, lit. 'Volhynian slaughter'; Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, romanized: Volynska trahediia, lit. 'Volyn tragedy') were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and Lublin region from 1943 to 1945.[3] The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. The massacres were exceptionally brutal and affected primarily women and children.[4][1] The UPA's actions resulted in about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths.[5][6][7] Other victims of the massacres included several hundred Jews, Russians, Czechs, Georgians, and Ukrainians who were part of Polish families or opposed the UPA and sabotaged the massacres by hiding Polish escapees." [1]
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/clash-of-victimhood-1943-volhynian-massacre-in-polish-and-ukrainian-culture/
- https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/07/ww2-massacre-of-poles-by-ukrainians-must-be-called-genocide-says-head-of-polish-church/
- https://ipn.gov.pl/en/news/4326,The-Volhynia-Massacre-Victims-Database.html
Operation Vistula / Akcja Wisła (1947)
Forced Ukrainian resettlement (typically Lemko) from southeast Poland to former occupied Prussian Provinces within Poland.
- "Save from oblivion the names of 150,000 Ukrainians displaced in 1947 in Operation Vistula": https://emisilo.pl/2018/10/ksiega-wysiedlonych-1947/
- http://www.dpcamps.org/operationvistula.html
- https://culture.pl/en/article/the-lost-homeland-and-lasting-identity-of-the-lemko-people
- Advice: "Records are available in the Archives, but they are difficult to find, usually hidden under an abbreviation or strange name (example: Wisła Action, "W" action). Documents can be placed (for example) in something called the Gmina Rada Narodowa, or PUR, (State Repatriation Office)."
- WISLA Action: List of villages and towns evicted during the operation, Yaroslav County Акція «ВІСЛА»: Список виселених у ході операції сіл і містечок, повіт Ярослав http://lemky.com/244-operaciyi-visla-spisok-viselenikh-u-khodi.html
Immigration and Emigration / Imigracja i Emigracja
- Immigration & Ships; contains immigration records of Polish citizens to different countries including the United States and Canada; passenger lists and documents; border crossings; information on the different passenger ships
- Allen Line Tourist’s Guide to Canada & US – circa 1880
- Immigration to America - extensive list of resources
- Information about British Home Children
- Immigrants to Canada: Hungarians, Croatians, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs
- Ellis Island, New York Immigration Records
Poland and the United States / Polska i Stany Zjednoczone
- Panna Maria, Texas; the first permanent Polish settlement in the United States.
- Photos From Panna Maria, taken by WikiTree Member Summer O.
- Polish Texans
- History of Panna Maria
- Polish in Pittsburgh, PA
- Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
- Polish in Western New York State
- Polish-American Marriage Records; by Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast, Inc.; records for Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Jersey City, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- Marriage Index for Polish Parishes in Chicago through 1915
- Marriage at Sea, The Ships List index of marriages performed while in transit (1854-1972)
- Jedność-Polonia Death Notice Index Search, 1926-1946' from Maryland State Archives
- Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index Search, 1890-1929; compilation of death notices appearing in the Dziennik Chicagoski, Chicago’s Polish daily newspaper, for the years 1890-1929
- Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index Search 1930 – 1971; compilation of death notices appearing in the Dziennik Chicagoski, Chicago’s Polish daily newspaper, for the years 1930-1971
- Space:Polish_Cemeteries_in_North_America
Poland and Canada / Polska i Kanada
- https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ Library and Archives in Canada - including obtaining citizenship in the early 20th century, and censuses from 1825
- Space:Polish_Cemeteries_in_North_America
FamilySearch Polish Categories: Direct Links / FamilySearch Polish Kategorie: Linki bezpośrednie
- Poland on FamilySearch
- Poland Census Records, FamilySearch
- Church Directories
- Civil Registration
- Court Records
- Polish Public Directories
- Emigration and Immigration Records
- Compiled Genealogies
- Poland, Online Genealogy Records
- Heraldry
- Land and Property Records
- Military Records
- Nobility
- Online Genealogy Records
- Polish Church Records
- Polish Civil Records
- Periodicals
- Probate Records
Other / Inny
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Causes of Death in records (Latin to English translation)
- List of overgrown cemeteries
- Surname Distribution in Poland
- Archives Portal Europe
- Polish Genealogy Quarterly
- Genealogy Vilnius region (Lithuania and Belarus)
- Galizien Village Family Books Surname Search
Geography and Maps of Poland / Geografia i mapy Polski
- Maps of Poland
- Poland Gazetteers
- University of Texas, Polish Maps Library
- Polish City Maps; online searchable map down to 1:70,000
- High Resolution maps of Poland; maps of the south-eastern corner of Poland, into Ukraine and the Slovak Republic.
- Polish Provinces of the Russian Empire ca. 1902
- Poland Cities Listing
- Deutsche Ortsnamen or German Exonyms for Galicia Village names
Polish Language Resources
- Polish Genealogical Word List
- Polish Language Help
- Guide to Writing Letters to Poland for Genealogical Assistance
- Polish phonology
- Rootsweb list of Polish Terms
- Online Keyboard for Diacritics (in Several languages)
Polish Naming Conventions
- Polish names consist of one or two given names, followed by a family name (surname). Polish surnames are hereditary and generally patrilineal (passed from the father to his children). Polish surnames are affected by gender endings; for example, with the family name of Kowalski, the male name would be written as Kowalski, while the female name is written as Kowalska. If a wife takes a husband's surname which ends in -ski, her new surname will end in -ska.
- Polish Naming Conventions
- Surname origins
- Behind the Names: Polish Names
- Polish Surname Meanings and Origins: Origins of Polish Last Names
- Map of Polish Names and Locations
- Alternate Surnames in Russian Poland
- English Equivalents of Foreign Given Names
- Poland's Name Days
- Polish Naming Customs
- Polish Names
- Surnames of Polish Origin
- Hoffman, William F. Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings. Chicago, Illinois: Polish Genealogical Society of America, 1997. (FHL book 943.8 D46h.)
- Bubak, Józef. Księga naszych imion (Book of Given Names). Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im, Ossoliński, 1993. (FHL book 943.8 D4b.)
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