Surname Search – Poland

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General & National
Geneteka – Major Polish site. Search by selecting the province
Metryki – Several databases searched by province and parish
National Archives – Search engine for the national archives
National Archives & Branches – Contact data, websites and records-held information for all locations
Parafie – Parish details, contact data and records searched by the village of the parish (in Polish but intuitive)
Poland GenWeb – Links to indexes for various villages & other links
Polish Genealogy – Search surnames and family trees (in Polish)
Polish Heraldry & Nobility – Link to Education section (Members only)
Skanoteka – Database of scanned vital records
Surname Distribution in Poland in 1990s – Prof. Rymut index identifies count by voivodship (in Polish)
Surname Distribution – Nazwiska w Polsce: Mapping of distribution and other data (in Polish)

Regions
Augustów Parishes (JZI) – Index of christening, marriage and death records (click on GENEO for search engine)
Galicia – Several search engines plus other information
Galicia – Ansiedlerkarten (Settler cards) 1782-1805 – Records of German settlers into Galicia
Kurpie Project – Indexes, maps, parishes, etc. focused on the area of the Kurpie population
Lubelskie Korzenie (Lublin Roots) – Index of records in the Lublin area (in Polish)
Małopolska Genealogical Society (MTG) – Variety of indexes (in Polish)
Podlasie – Excellent locator map for parishes to obtain links
Podlasie & Lublin – Indexes also include Greek-Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish entries
Pomorze (Pomerania) Genealogical Society (PTG) – Index of christening, marriage, death and cemetery records
Pomorze (Pomerania-Western) Zachodniopomorskie TG – Indexes for western Pomerania
Pomerania – Genbaza indexing and links to scans
Pomerania – Martyred Police 1939-45 – Database of 562 members of the Pomeranian police killed during the Second World War
Poznań Project – Poznań Province: Marriage records index, 19th century
Poznań Province – Index of Enfranchisement Documents – after the abolition of serfdom, also includes part of Kuyavia
Silesia – Upper Silesia Genealogical Society indexes and metrics
Słupca Powiat: Birth, Marriage, Death records – Słupca is about 40 miles ESE of Poznań
Warmia Project – Births, Marriages, Deaths with links to scans (Family Search)
Wielkopolska Province – Index of participants in the 1918-19 Greater Poland Uprising against German rule
Wielkopolska Province – Those awarded The Greater Poland Uprising Cross
Wielkopolska Province (BaSIA) – Index of births, marriages and deaths
Wielkopolska Province (WTG “Gniazdo”): Necrology – Death notices in the press, 18th-20th century (in Polish)
Wielkopolska Province: Priests from the 18th to 20th centuries – Birth, death, novitiate dates; parishes and positions
Wielkopolska Province: Prussian war losses 1866-1915– Drawn from newspaper lists and other sources (in Polish)
Wisnicze District: Birth records – Wisnicze is about 30 miles NW of Katowice and 30 miles SW of Częstochowa
Wisnicze District: Marriage records – Wisnicze is about 30 miles NW of Katowice and 30 miles SW of Częstochowa

Cities & Villages
Izdebki parish (southeast Poland) – Indexes of Births (1876-1900) and Marriage (1869-1906)
Lublin Genealogical Society (LTG) – Marriage indexes for several parishes (in Polish)
Małopolska/Kraków – City Directory, 1925
Mędrzechów: Index of Church Birth records – Mędrzechów is a village about 50 miles northwest of Kraków
Mędrzechów: Index of Church Marriage records – Mędrzechów is a village about 50 miles northwest of Kraków
Mędrzechów: Index of Church Death records – Mędrzechów is a village about 50 miles northwest of Kraków
Rzeszów, Galicia – Vital records index
Warsaw Home Army Uprising 1944 – Biographical information about the participants (in Polish)
Warsaw Home Army Uprising 1944 – Civilian victims in the uprising (in Polish)
Warsaw Home Army Uprising 1944 – Names on the Remembrance Wall (in Polish)

Cemeteries (23) – Sites able to be searched by surname

Szlachta/Nobility (14) – Sites able to be searched by surname

Jewish
Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group – Database and search engine
JewishGen – Poland Collection – Premier international Jewish genealogy website
Jewish Cemeteries in Poland – Database and search engine
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI) – Indexing Jewish and other families living in more than 1400 shtetls
Louis Kessler Links – Collection of links to curated sites for Jewish genealogy
Łódż Ghetto Cemetery – Search by surname
Polin Museum Virtual Shtetl – Search towns, people, headstones; genealogy section by free registration
Routes to Roots Foundation – Large collection of links for databases, archives, maps, etc.

Military
Military Records to 1920 (14) – Searchable sites of German/Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian records
Cemeteries – World War I – Search by name; Collection of names from headstones of those killed in Poland during WWI
Cemeteries – Various Wars – Select the period or war to obtain a list of links for cemeteries and monuments often with the list of names, possibly unit and rank
Galicia – Austrian Military Records 1865-1930 – Registration cards, personnel files, medical tests, etc. from various cities in Galicia
Names on War Memorials, Cemetery Headstone, Death Camps, etc. – A collection from various villages and locations
Poles in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War – List of those from the Russian partition who fought, or were injured or killed
Recruitment Lists: Lublin Governate – Databases for the years 1890-1895, 1896-1898, 1903-1904, 1914
WW2 – Heroes of the Battle of Bzura River (Sep 1939) – Select region from the map then cemetery; Gives the location and often photos of memorials or lists list of names
WW2 – Katyn Lists – Lists of names of those massacred at Katyn and also in Belarus and Ukraine
WW2 – Victims of Nazi Terror 1939-1945 – Victims and people repressed during the German occupation
WW2 – Victims of Soviet Terror 1939-1945 – Victims and people repressed during the Soviet occupation