A collection of the most important research resources for anyone working within the boundaries of Poland, either historically or currently.

Alphabets, Calendars, Fonts, etc.

• Cyrillic Alphabet Cyrillic Script 
  Handy when you are trying to interpret the Russian language documents you've located
• German Fraktur (Gothic Script)  
• Jewish Calendar Tools
• Julian and Gregorian Calendars
• Old Church Slavonic Alphabet
• Old German handwriting
• Perpetual Calendar
• Polish and Cyrillic Fonts
  Includes instructions on how to install MS software to support Polish characters from the JRI-PL project pages.

Archives

• Archives in Belarus
• Archives of Lithuania
  Official web site of the Lithuanian Archives
• Archives in Poland
  Addresses for both Civil and Catholic Church archives
• Archives in Ukraine
• Archives in the United States
• Parish Records Holdings
  This is intended as a clearinghouse for parish records that have not been filmed by the Mormons.

For Starters

• Freedom of Information Act, Using
• How to Trace your Family Tree
• How to start my search for Ancestors

Letter Writing Guides

• Polish Letters

Libraries

• Poland
• United States
• Europeana.eu
  Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items.
• Slavistics Portal

Museums

• United States
  

Organizations: Fraternal

• Polish American Veterans Association
  Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej (w Ameryce)
• PAVA/SWAP Posts
• Polish Falcons
• Polish Falcons Nests
• Polish National Alliance (PNA)
• PNA Lodges
• PNA Lodge Histories
• Polish National Union
• Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
• PRCUA Societies
• Polish Women's Alliance
• Sons of Poland
  

Organizations: Genealogical & Others

• East European Genealogical Society
• Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)
• Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS)
• NGS (National Genealogical Society)

• JewishGen®
• Jewish Family History Foundation
  Focuses on records of the Polish Commonwealth in the 17^th & 18^th Centuries
• Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

• Polish American Historical Association
• Polish Center of Discovery and Learning
• Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America
  The leading center of learning and source of information about Poland's history and culture in the US
• Silesian Genealogical Society
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
  (A Volhynian Genealogy Group)
• Tatra Area Research Group
• Milwaukee Polish Fest

Resources: Country

Resources: Ethnic

Kashubians

 

• Kashubian Association of North America (KANA)

 

Tatars

 

• A Short History of the Lipka Tatars
• Islam in Belarus
• Islam in Poland
• Tatar Nobility of the Polish Commonwealth

Resources: Regional

 

Bialystok

 

• “Kamera Wojny i Domen” 1793 – 1807
  (documents made by Prussian authorities in the time of annexation)

 

Carpatho-Rusyn

 

• Carpatho-Rusyn Home Page
• The Carpathian Connection
• Górale i Tatry
• Lemkos
• Polen: Pictures of pre-war Polish sites
  Pictures from Polen by Dr. Wilhelm Nölting, published in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.  There are pictures from Hutsul villages in Carpathian Ukraine.

 

Czech-Slovak

 

• Czech Mail List on RootsWeb
• Czech & Slovak American Genealogy Society
• Czechoslovak Genealogical Society Int'l
• Slovak Genealogical-Heraldic Society

 

Eastern Europe

 

• EastEuropeGenWeb
• East European Research Group
  Affiliated with the Alberta, Canada Genealogical Society
• "People of a Thousand Towns"
  Online catalogue of photographs of Jewish life brought to you by Yivo Institute

Galicia (Galizien)

 

• Compact Memory  
  A project to digitize German Language Jewish Periodicals
• Galicia: Slownik Geograficzny translation
• Galizien German Descendants
• Galicia on EastEuropeGenWeb
• Galician Research: Historical Perspectives
• Gesher Galicia
• Lwów Travelogue
  An Inter-War travelogue describing sights within the city
• Kendler's Lexicon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Maps of Galicia
• Podole

• Austrian Military Recruitment in Galicia
  A town by town list of where regiments recruited by year.
• Austrian Military Garrisons in Galicia
• Galician Federal Representatives
  To the Government in Vienna from 1907
• Galician Provincial Representatives
• Galician Vital Records
  List of available records for the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.  The list covers Roman Catholic and Jewish records.
• 1891 Galician Business Directory
• 1891 Lwów Business Directory
  This is a subset of the 1891 Galician Business Directory which includes street addresses not included in the Galician Directory
• 1907 Kraków City Directory
  Compiled from information taken from a directory for Kraków published in 1907 (Wielka księga adresowa Krakowa i Podgorza)

Kresy (Borderlands)

 

• Kresy-Siberia Memorial Wall
  1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42

 

Latin America

 

• The Other Child: Poles in Latin America
• Colonia Santa Rosa in Mexico

 

Sląsk

 

• Silesia Club-USA
• Silesian Genealogical Society

Volhynia

 

• Wandering Volhynians
  A Magazine for the Descendants of Germans From Volhynia and Congress Poland
• Wolyn province
  This site is in Polish, but it has wonderful pictures from many of the powiats
• woj. Wołyn

Wielkopolska

 

• Der Kreis Flatow
  Pictures from a rare book that shows places in Posen during the inter-war years.
• Krotoszyn (Krotoschin)
• Poznan City Guide
  Practical information about the city, including pictures
• Province of Posen, Prussia
  From the Birchy Genealogy project
• Vital Records for the Province of Posen (Poznan)
• Polish History: A Guide
  A brief history of Poland written by Dr. Lukasz Bielecki
• Germans in Poland
• Napoleon Orda  
  19th century lithographs of many interesting places in Poland
• Polish Magnates and Their Archives  
  Avotaynu prepared list of Magnate and the location of estate archives
• Magnate Landowner Records of Eastern Europe
• Prussian Education
• Relationships of the So-Called "Dutch Populace" in Greater Poland
• Soviet Archival Sources for the study of Emigration from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• 1835 Posen City Directory (Adress-Kalender)
  The earliest known city directory published for the city of Poznan, Poland
• Posen High Schools Index
  Over 7,000 student/faculty names have been transcribed from Posen high school lists.

Resources: Religious

 

Jewish

 

• Avotaynu Home Page
  Publisher of works on Jewish Genealogy
• Center for Jewish History
  This site has Family History section accessible from the front page
• Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland
• History of the Jews in Poland  (1800 - 1939)
• History of the Jews in Poland (1939 - 1945)
• JewishGen®
• Jewish cemetery of Czestochowa, Poland
  This site includes much information about Czestochowa as well as a list of those buried in the cemetery
• Jewish Encyclopedia
  This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906
• Jewish Family History Foundation
  Focuses on records of the Polish Commonwealth in the 17^th & 18^th Centuries
• Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
• Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland
• Jews in Haller's Army
• Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• Routes to Roots Foundation
  Site has an archive of Jewish vital records holdings listed by town name
• ShtetLinks
• Virtual Sztetl Project
• 1787 Decree by Austrian Emperor Joseph
  The decree requiring a fixed surname for all Jews

Lutheran

 

• Aid Association for Lutherans

Translations

• Translation tips for Polish Vital Records