POLISH RESEARCHERS & GUIDES

As a service to our visitors, we list the following genealogical researchers and guides who are located in Poland. This listing does not constitute an endorsement, but these are professionals who have supported PGSA though articles, lectures, tours and other assistance, and about whom we have received positive reports from members and non-members who utilized their services. You, the consumer, must perform the proper due diligence to determine which, if any, meet your needs, expectations and price considerations.

All of the following researchers investigate vital records. Additionally listed are any special research capabilities they offer. Furthermore, it is noted where researchers specialize in particular geographic areas.

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Polish Origins

 
Research and Tours
Founded:2004
Location:Kraków
Contact:Zenon Znamirowski
Website:https://polishorigins.com/
Blog:https://blog.polishorigins.com/
Email:info@polishorigins.com
Phone(s):+48 664-407-089
Note(s):PGSA tour partner and sponsor of the PGSA Genealogy Notebook e-newsletter
Geographic Coverage:Poland, Western Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Slovakia
Additional Services:- Our team of researchers, genealogists and guides - each with expertise in multiple regions - are located across Poland including Kraków, Przemysł, Sanok, Warsaw, Poznań, and Białystok, often placing them near to your ancestral villages, parishes and archives
- We also have strong relationships with institutions in neighboring countries including Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine
- In addition to tours personalized to your objectives, we offer themed, small group tours
- If you cannot travel to Poland and Eastern Europe, or before you travel, we can provide assistance ranging from initial research to trying to fill those persistent gaps in your otherwise extensive data

Genea Studium

 
Research and Tours
Founded:2011
Location:Przemyśl
Contact:Maciej Orzechowski
Website:http://www.PolishDocuments.com
Email:omaciej@wp.pl or info@polishdocuments.com
Phone(s):USA # to Poland 312-235-2254 Chicago area code with free transfer to Poland
Direct to Poland +48 608-570-280
Note(s):2019 PGSA conference presenter
One of only two researchers allowed access in the Przemyśł Archdiocesan Archives
Geographic Coverage:Southeast Poland, in particular the State and Catholic archives in Przemyśł, Rzeszów and Tarnów
Additional Services:- Research ancestors by visiting archives, civil registry offices, cemeteries and parishes
- Search Land, Military and Notary records
- Translate documents from Polish to English
- Locate living relatives in Poland
- Organize trips by train to main cities of the Austrian Empire Kraków, Vienna, Prague, Budapest

Your Roots in Poland

 
Research and Tours
Founded:2010
Location:Kraków
Contact:Kinga Urbańska
Website:https://www.YourRootsInPoland.com
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/DiscoverYourRootsInPoland/
Email:info@YourRootsInPoland.com
Phone(s):+48 572-683-144
+48 606-894-680
Geographic Coverage:Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine
Additional Services:- Nobility documentation
- Census and school records
- Land/Tax/Military/Estate records
- Cadastral maps

Dorota Walker

 
Research only
Founded:2019
Location:Ustroń, Silesia, 60 miles SW of Kraków
Contact:Dorota Walker
Website:https://dorotawalker.com/strona-glowna/english-version
Email:dorotawalker@gmail.com
Phone(s):+48 609-466-609
Note(s):Master of Arts in History/Archival Studies and over 10 years as a researcher at the British Library in London
Geographic Coverage:150 mile radius from her Silesian location
Additional Services:- Lutheran records
- German roots in Silesia
- Czech cross-border records
- WWII & Soviet period records
- Local archives
- Certified by the Polish Minister of Justice as a translator of official proceedings and documents

Genealogy Tour

 
Research and Tours

Founded:2007
Location:Wrocław
Contact:Tomasz Szymkowiak
Website:http://genealogytour.com
Email:t.szymkowiak@genealogytour.com
Phone(s):+48 601-942-018
Note(s):PGSA tour partner and Rodziny columnist
Geographic Coverage:Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus
Additional Services:- Locate & interview living relatives
- Locate an original house or property and provide a current photo
- Interview local inhabitants who might have known your ancestors
- Find cemetery & graves of ancestors

Kasia Rutkowska

 
Research and Tours
Founded:2000
Location:Warsaw
Contact:Kasia Rutkowska
Website:http://www.polishgenius.pl
Email:polishgenius.research@gmail.com
Geographic Coverage:Tours cover the Poznań area in the west; central Poland including Płock and Warsaw; to eastern Poland including Łomza, Mława, Podlasie region, Lublin; plus Podkarpackie.
Additional Services:Research focus is on vital and immigration record.
Also provides photography services of ancestral villages and cemeteries.

Ancestral Tourism

 
Research and Tours
Founded:2015
Location:Białystok
Contact:Daniel Paczkowski
Website:http://ancestral-tourism.com/
& Facebook
Blog:https://danielpaczkowski.blogspot.com
Email:paczkowskidanielmarcin@gmail.com
Phone(s):+48 787-691-607
Geographic Coverage:- All of Poland, with emphasis on the Northeastern region (Warminsko-Mazurskie, Podlaskie, Lubelskie, Mazowieckie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Łódzkie, Świetokrzyskie, Podkarpackie) and Lithuania, plus genealogical research (but no tour in Belarus)
- Some family name lists available to search are found via the Database tab on his website.
Additional Services:- Locate living relatives
- Cemetery grave searches
- Care for discovered gravesites
- For those who cannot travel, the creation of a video of your ancestral village(s); to view examples of my gen-videos: Click Here
- Notary and court documents
- Assist Polish Origins in northeastern Poland

Genoroots

 
Research and Tours

Founded:2003
Location:Ciechocinek, 15 miles SE of Toruń
Contact:Aleksandra Kacprzak
Website:http://www.genoroots.com
Email:aleksandra.genealogy@gmail.com
Phone(s):+48 514-156-407
Note(s):Speaker at 2019 PGSA conference
Founder and Board Member of the Association of Professional Polish Genealogists
Geographic Coverage:Russian and Austrian partitions of Poland
Additional Services:- Search for living relatives
- Village archival research
- Cadastral maps
- Assists US attorneys to locate heirs in Poland for unclaimed estate property of those with Polish roots who die intestate or no local heirs

Discovering Roots

 
Research and Tours

Founded:1997
Location:Poznań
Contact:Łukasz Bielecki, Kasia Grycza
Website:http://www.discovering-roots.pl
Email:office@discovering-roots.pl
Phone(s):+48 606-894-680 +48 514-700-914
Note(s):PGSA tour partner and developer/manager of the Poznan Project index
Geographic Coverage:Poland, especially the Prussian partition with added emphasis on the Poznań and Greater Poland region
Additional Services:- Jewish research including Holocaust records
- Locate and interview living relatives
- Photograph ancestral villages
- Probate research

Iwona Dakiniewicz

 
Research and Tours

Founded:1999
Location:Łódż
Contact:Iwona Dakiniewicz
Phone:+48 607-072-797
Email:genealogy@pro.onet.pl
Note(s):Columnist in the journal of the PGSA, "Rodziny", for 20+ years
Geographic Coverage:Research: All of Poland plus Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary
Tours: 100-120 mile radius from Łódż
Additional Services:- Civil, church and military records
- Tax Records