Finding your roots

As our families embrace life in the U.S., many of us are challenged with how to keep the Polish culture in our families.. We are often asked “Where do I come from?” To many that came here empty-handed, family records are lost. Creating a family tree is certainly a way to spark interest. Today, searching for your Polish ancestors and building your family tree can be a great adventure as millions of records are being digitized and available on line and we’ve found some dating back to 15th century! You can search and view online millions of index entries (and, in many instances, original record images) from archives all over Poland. These often include scanned copies of vital records such as birth, marriage and death records. These Polish genealogy websites (most of them free) can save you loads of legwork in locating ancestral hometowns and figuring out where to look for records. Just as important, most are in Polish and English. These sites offer links to websites including vital records, archives & libraries, cemeteries, church records, etc.
  • Szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl is an on-line service developed by the NDA which presents scans and descriptions of archive materials collected in the Polish archives. Currently more than 55 million scans of archive materials are available in the service, their number still growing. The source of the archive descriptions in the service are the data from the Integrated Archive Information System (ZoSIA). The service also contains data from the Programme for the Registration of Records from Parish and Civil Registration Offices (PRADZIAD), which collects information on genealogical materials kept in the state archives. Scans of archive materials are derived from the collections of the Polish state archives and other cultural institutions. The information of interest may be easily found thanks to the user-friendly search engine offering many useful filters and options.
  • Familysearch.org and, in particular, many more links to Polish website references www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Poland_Websites
  • Ancestry.com and, in particular, many more links to Polish website references www.ancestry.com/search/places/europe/poland
  • Myheritage.com
  • www.agad.gov.pl Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
  • Find a grave: www.billiongraves.com
  • www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl Allows you to select Province and Parish using the dropdown menu, and enter a name in the Person field. You can also add a range of years or use the checkboxes to select other options.
  • Lubelskie Roots Lubelskie Korzenie www.lubgens.eu
  • The Polish Biographical Dictionary
  • Polish Geneological Socity of America
  • Heraldry - links pending. Alternatively, you can search online original references such as: Herbarsz Grabowiecki, Herbarz Polski Niesieckiego
  • Wielcy.pl - The Minakowski's Great Genealogy Site
  • http://wolyn-metryki.pl Baza Systemu Indeksacji Archiwalnej (BaSIA) www.basia.famula.pl The Baza Systemu Indeksacji Archiwalnej (BaSIA-Archival Database Indexing System) of the Wielkopolska Genealogical Society contains more than 5 million entries from all over Greater Poland.
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