Spis Gazetteer of Poland

Gazetteer Reading Translations for Spis miejscowości Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej  943.8 E5s 1968 Diagram of a typical entry:

Arrangement: Name of the locality is listed alphabetically down the page in column 1. See the sample diagram above to see its arrangement on the page and the translated version on the 2nd row of the diagram.

List of abbreviations used:

The Polish Alphabet: Words with diacritic marks in the letters follow the corresponding letters without diacritic marks in the Polish alphabet. This is important to know when looking up towns in the gazetteer or in the dictionary. The letters q, v, and x are only used in foreign names and as symbols.

a ą b c ć d e ę f g h i j k l ł m n ń o ó p r s ś t u w y z ż ź

Województwo column 4: The left-hand column below represents the name of the województwo as it appears in the gazetteer. The right-hand column below represents the form of the name as it appears on maps, and in the LDS Family History Library Catalog™. Note that the first five entries on the list are cities which in themselves are województwos, and at the same time are the capital cities of the larger województwos in which they are situated.