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Welcome to the PolandGenWeb site!
Chief Coordinator: Marie Dallas
Click here to learn about PolandGenWeb and its services
These pages are graciously hosted by Rootsweb.
co-founder and creative consultant: Donna Pointkouski
Please click on the province on the map below to go directly to the province page for resources specific to that province.
©Copyright 1998. Office of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland.
PolandGenWeb is grateful for their kind permission to use their map!
Featured Project
Province Coordinators Needed PolandGenWeb is looking for volunteers to transcribe records and also photocopies of microfilmed records for another volunteer to transcribe. For more information, please visit the Polish Records Transcription Project. You don't have to know the language to help out!
PolandGenWeb has provinces waiting to be adopted! Visit the Hosting a Province page for more information. If you're familiar with the genealogical resources in any of the provinces needing a coordinator and want to help your fellow researchers, volunteer to become a province coordinator!
What's New on the PolandGenWeb Site
Find out what's been added to our site in the past month!
PolandGenWeb Help Pages - pages to help you trace your roots
This is a directory of pages to help you with your research. Some of the topics listed are:
- an alphabetical list of all major cities, counties, and some towns in each of the current provinces of Poland; new towns are added periodically
- locating the town your ancestor came from and other frequently asked questions
- basic research -- general resources for information in America and other countries
- translation aids
- Polish Genealogical Societies -- worldwide
- what records are available in Poland and what info you need to find them
- lesser known American resources
- pages explaining the location and history of various regions (past and present) in Poland, including links to maps of these regions
- general Poland maps and bookstores
Polish Records Transcription Project
Birth, marriage, and death records for many towns have been donated to PolandGenWeb. Check to see if one of these towns is where your ancestors came from! We are also looking for volunteers!
Poland Catholic Records Microfilms
Have you been thinking about renting a microfilm from the LDS library? Peter Gwozdz has written a wonderful guide to microfilmed records in Poland and had donated it to PolandGenWeb. Find out what information is contained in Polish records, what those double dates mean, and other tidbits to help you understand what information you'll find in those records!
Translation and Research Aids
Need a professional researcher or help translating those Polish, Russian, or German Records? Visit this page for assistance!
Town Locators
Address and Phone Directories
Message Boards and Surname Searches
Where did the former province of xxxx go?
Mailing Lists for Poland
Non-genealogical Web Sites
Find the town(s) your ancestors came from.
Address and phone listings for Poland.
Post messages or search for your surnames of interest on these query systems.
Here you can find out in which new province each of the former 49 provinces is located. There is also a link to a great page detailing the province boundary changes in Poland since becoming a country once again in 1918.
Mailing lists can be a valuable tool: once you have subscribed, you send an e-mail to the mailing list, and the list retransmits that message to everyone who is subscribed. Lots of help from other researchers to be found on these mailing lists!
Do you want to know more about Poland and the Polish culture? Find links to recipes, shopping, travel, and more!
Please, use the resources listed on the pages of our site before contacting us. There is nothing we can tell you that doesn't already appear on this site. Thank you.
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