Research Databases

PGSA’s redesign and restructuring of Polish genealogical data is still underway. If you would like assistance searching for any particular information, please email us and a volunteer will do their best to provide information from our existing records.

PGSA Library Research Policy

Birth Index
An index of births based on Catholic parish records in the US.
PGSA now has the LDS (Latter Day Saints) films for Holy Trinity, St. John Cantius and St.Stanislaus Kostka in Chicago, IL. To order one of the records from these films, download this form.

Birth Records from Minnesota Churches – Public access
Birth Records from Minnesota Churches – Members access

Cedar Grove Cemetery Burials
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Notre Dame IN Index

Combined Cedar Grove & St. Joseph Polish Cemetery Inscriptions
St. Joseph County, IN

Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index: 1890-1929
Locate persons whose death notice appeared in Chicago’s Polish language newspaper.

Dziennik Chicagoski Death Notice Index: 1930-1971
Locate persons whose death notice appeared in Chicago’s Polish language newspaper.

Gazetteer of Poland (1988 & 2009) A database of Polish place names from 1988 & 2009.

Haller’s Army Index
Locate surnames of those who served in this historic military unit in WWI.

Immigrant Marriage Database St. Joseph County, Indiana – Public access
Immigrant Marriage Database St. Joseph County, Indiana – Members access

Jednosc Polonia Death Notice Index
Locate persons whose death notice appeared in Baltimore’sPolish language newspaper.

Jubilee Book Index
Locate surnames of those who appear in jubilee books published by churches.

Kuryer Polski Death Notice Index, Milwaukee, WI
Kuryer Polski Indexing Project

Map of the Kingdom of Poland in 1907: An Index
Locate towns in the Kingdom of Poland in 1907. The index provides the town’s coordinates and a link to the map.

Marriage Index
An index of marriages from Catholic parish records in the US. This index will ultimately replace the ones described next.

Marriage Index for Polish Parishes in Chicago through 1915
Locate ancestors married in the Polish parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Marriage Records from Minnesota Churches – Public access
Marriage Records from Minnesota Churches – Members access

Poles of Chicago 1837-1937
The book that was prepared for the celebration of Chicago’s Charter Jubilee in 1937. The Index has 1,650 surname entries.

Polish White Eagle Association Index
Locate surnames of Policy holders and their death claim files.

PRCUA Insurance Claim File Index
Locate surnames of Policy holders and their death claim files.

PRCUA Societies
Societies of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America

St. Joseph County, Indiana Deaths
This is an index of the names included in the H-I-J-K sections of the work prepared by Lucky Ladewski and Gene Szymarek.

Surnames in Poland by Kazimierz Rymut (in 1990)
A listing of surnames in Poland by quanity in provinces. Text in Polish.

Surname Usage plotted on a map of Poland

We, the Milwaukee Poles 1846-1946 Index

Who’s Who in Polish America Index Polish biographies published in 1943

Writing Home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States
Surname index from letters written by emigrants from Poland, to family back home in the Plock province of Poland, in the years 1890 and 1891.

 

School Classes/Orphanages

Holy Trinity School Class 1883, Chicago, IL

St. Casimir School Class 1879-1880, Newton, WI

St. Hedwig Orphanage Census 1920, Niles Township, IL

Other Web Search Engines

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900

Milwaukee, WI Catholic Cemetery Index
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries burial records

New York City Vital Records and Naturalizations

PGSNYS Databases
The PGS of New York State will search their Przewodnik Handlowy and Dziennik Dla Wsystkich databases for you for no fee.

Polish Soldiers Buried in France
Information on Polish Soldiers who died during the WWII and were buried in different cemetaries in France

Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne – Pomeranian Genealogical Association
Has an index of marriages, births, deaths, and cemeteries. Similar to the Poznan Project but for a different area of Poland.

Portage County/Stevens Point, Wisconsin Resources

Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society

Portage County, Wisconsin Cemetery Locator

Poznan Marriage Project
An index of marriages from the former Polish province of Poznan (Posen).

RootsWeb Databases
Miscellaneous databases of genealogical interest

Searchable Death Indexes & Records
From 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Social Security Death Index
Ancestry version. Contains about 66 million names of deceased individuals in the U.S.

Social Security Death Index
Genealogy Library version. Contains about 55 million names of deceased individuals in the U.S.

WWI Draft Registration Index
Partial index of WWI Draft registration cards.