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Polish Links
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 Atlas
of Eastern Europe: 7 maps
published by the CIA in 1990 for Poland, afterwards goto the Europe Maps page for
even more Polish maps.
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Genealogy &
Poland – a guide
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Handwriting Examples of
Cyrillic Script: Cyrillic
letters that can be confused; handwritten examples of the Latin letter, its
Cyrillic equivalent and what that letter can look like.
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Index of the
Repressed – a database that once finished will contain information on
hundreds of thousands of Poles who were killed &/or imprisoned during
the Russian occupation. They are
currently translating pages into English.
Databases online so far include the deaths at Katyn, Kharkov, &
Tver.
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Lithuanian Global Genealogical
Society Databank: surname
index; transcribed records from Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.
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Mammie's Genealogy & Polish Links
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Napoleonic Polish Translation
Aids: examples of both Polish
& Russian Polish birth, marriage, and death records along with their
English translations. Also has the Russian Alphabet with its
English, Polish, and German equivalents.
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New Provinces of
Poland: Maps to compare the old
49 provinces to the new 16 provinces.
The rezoning of Poland occurred in 1998 when it was voted to
decentralize the government, give more power to local government, and to do
away with the old communist era administration.
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Poland – A Country Study: courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress
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Poland GenWeb: information
on Poland's history, transcribed records, queries
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Poland's Genealogy Forum:
FamilyTreeMaker's Polish message boards
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Polish Genealogical Society of
Connecticut and the Northeast:
include a list of what’s available in their library
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Polish
Genealogy Society of America: includes
searchable databases
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Polish
Genealogy Word List
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Polish
Roots Mailing List – courtesy of Rootsweb
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Polish State Archives (in English)
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Polish Terms
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The Polish Genealogy HomePage: by Rafal Prinke, includes genealogy links and resources, also
has a list of surnames with corresponding email addresses for those
researching the name
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Rymut’s
Volumes Online: This is a great
site, it is an alphabetical listing of Polish surnames & their
frequency in 1990. To use: click on “Slownika Nazwisk Wspolczesnie
w Polsce Uzywanych,” enter the surname in the box (note, diatrical marks
are necessary, so just cut & paste the Polish letters as needed from
the website), hit enter or click “szukaj” to search. You can enter the whole name, or just
the first few letters. The results
page will list the surname, the frequency for the entire country, and then
the breakdown for each province. If
you click on “tutaj sznajduja sie objasnienie skrotkow” a pop up window
will open to give the full name of the province for each of the two letter
codes on the results page.
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Szlachta Wielkopolska – Nobility of Greater
Poland: Genealogical data for
numerous noble Poles, divided by surname.
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