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.

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Archives &amp; Libraries

 * Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
 * Digital Library of Wielkopolska Books for the Poznan province.
 * Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Poland
 * Polish Embassy
 * Polish Digital Library Collection
 * Silesian Digital Library Books in German and Polish can be downloaded to your computer.
 * State Archives of Poland
 * State Archives of Poland Databases
 * ELA Population Registers
 * IZA Archival Fonds
 * PRADZIAD Parish Registers &amp; Civil Registration
 * SEZAM Archive Inventories
 * 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.
 * UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Poland

Cemeteries

 * Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project

Church Records

 * Church Inventory Genealogia Polska
 * Lutheran Church in Poland
 * Poland's Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses
 * Roman Catholic Archdiocese Katowice
 * Roman Catholic Church Registers Online
 * Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland
 * Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (Opoka)
 * Roman Catholic Dioceses in Poland (PolandGenWeb)
 * Roman Catholic Parish Directory at KATOLIK
 * Polish Parish Address Finder This site will help you find addresses to Catholic parishes, and when available their email or web address.

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

Civil Registration

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

Directories

 * Poland white pages
 * Classmates Site

Emigration and Immigration

 * 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

 * Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
 * Slownik Geograficzny Translation Guide PGSA
 * Slownik Geograficzny Translation Guide PolishRoots

Genealogy

 * 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 &amp; Family History Network - Poland
 * Poland Genealogy Links
 * Poland Genealogy Resources by FEEFHS
 * PolandGenWeb
 * Poland Information &amp; 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 &amp; Russia
 * Zippnow Catholic Church Parish Records

General Information

 * For Poles in America
 * Polish Translator
 * Links and information for Polish Genealogists

Heraldry

 * Confederation of the Polish Nobility
 * The Minakowski's Great Genealogy Site

History

 * History of Poland
 * Index of Victims of Soviet Repression
 * Timeline of Polish History

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

 * 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

 * Free Polish-English-Polish Translator and online Polish Dictionary
 * German Genealogical Word List
 * Gothic Handwriting Resource Guide
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * Polish Genealogical Word List
 * Polish Letter Writing Guide
 * Translation Guide to19th Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents

Maps

 * 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

 * Fallen Soldiers in WWI
 * Index of Victims of Soviet Repression
 * Prussian Army Project

Names Personal

 * 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
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

 * 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.

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