collections & databases

polish vital records Databases

General - (G)

1. Geneteka database www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl 

2. Familysearch (online digitized records) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=75&query=%2Bkeywords%3APoland%20%2Bavailability%3AOnline 

3. Residents registration registers http://meldunkowe.genealodzy.pl/ 

4. JewishGen 

   • https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/  

   • https://jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm

5. Central Database of Shoah Victims's names https://yvng.yadvashem.org/  

6. Virtual Shtetl https://sztetl.org.pl/en/genealogy  

Cross-Regional - (CR)

1. BaSIA http://www.basia.famula.pl/en/ 

2. Poznan Project http://poznan-project.psnc.pl/search.php

3. Lubgens vital records database http://regestry.lubgens.eu/news.php  or http://szukaj.lubgens.eu/

4. Project Podlasie https://indeksy.projektpodlasie.pl/ (login-required)

5. Świętogen - http://swietokrzyskie.indeksy.net/ and https://indeksygenbaza.wixsite.com/glowna/swietogen

6. East and West Prussia http://namensindex.vffow.de/ 

7. Silesia resources

Regional - (R)

1. Greater Poland (wielkopolskie)

   • Poznań census 1870-1931 http://e-kartoteka.net/pl/ 

   • Słupca area http://www.slupcagenealogy.com/SearchPg.aspx

2. Kuyavian-Pomeranian (kujawsko-pomorskie)

   • Dobrzyń region http://szpejankowski.eu/index.php/metryki-wykazy-osob/102.html 

   • Genealogia w Archiwach https://www.genealogiawarchiwach.pl/ 

3. Lesser Poland  (małopolskie)

   • http://www.mtg-malopolska.org.pl/ksiegimetrykalne.html

   • Kraków voivodeship census 1790-1791  

4. Łódź (łódzkie)

   • Konstantynów Register of residents 

   • Kutno census XIX century 

     • https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/51/2/0/-/109#tabIndeksy

     • https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/51/2/0/-/108#tabIndeksy  

     • http://jewish.kutno.free.fr/index.html

   • Łowicz register of residents:

     • https://www.warszawa.ap.gov.pl/wyszukiwarki/lowicz-m/index.html 

   • Łódź census 1916-1921  - source 1 and source 2 

   • Łódź  the population control books of Łódź from 1931-1939 

   • Łódź Ghetto Commune resources

     • Superior of the Eldership of Jews in the Lodz Ghetto from 1939-1944 

     • German Ghetto Board (Gettoverwaltung, 1939-1945)

     • Łódź Jewish Religious Community from 1885-1939 

   • Municipalities registers of Gospodarz, Górki, Kruszów, Lućmierz, Nowosolna, Puczniew, Tążowy, Tuszynek Duchowny

   • Project Prosna (Wieluń area) - https://gladala.com/projekt-prosna/ 

5. Lower Silesian (dolnośląskie)

   • http://data.matricula-online.eu/en/polen/ (partial evangelical records)

6. Lublin (lubelskie)

   • Vital records database http://ltg.pl/indeksy/ 

   • Poland, Lublin Roman Catholic Church Books, 1784-1964

   • Conscription records to Tzar Army http://poborowi.ltg.pl/?fbclid=IwAR1-5d_EW755NyR47UIvc770TWtSIhlYLdJpiy6KTRwMGOqwa-Xkqia61Mk

   • Register of Permanent Population of Zamość Residents for the years 1932-1950 

   • Register of residents: Chełm, Kock, Kraśnik, Lublin, Międzyrzec Podlaski, Radzyń Podlaski

   • http://chelmskahistoria.pl/index.php 

7. Masovian (mazowieckie)  

   • Garwolin Indexing Group 

     • http://garwolin.org/metryki 

     • http://indeksy.garwolin.org/ 

     • http://www.szukaj.garwolin.org/

     • non-vital record's http://szukaj.garwolin.org/ 

   • Grodzisk State Archive indexing project http://apgrodzisk.indeksy.net/ 

   • Mazovian Nobility http://szlachtapolnocnegomazowsza.pl/o-projekcie/

   • The "tariff" 1852 of the houses of the city of Warsaw and the suburbs of Prague 

   • Warsaw 1945-47 - Lists exhumed

   • Vital records registers kept at the Registry Office of the Capital City Warsaw (Urząd Stanu Cywilnego m.st. Warszawy)

   • Zieluń parish http://zielun.pl/metryki.php?parafia=zielun&metryki=b&year=1900

8. Podlaskie (podlaskie)

   • Jamiński indexing project (Białystok area) https://jzi.org.pl/geneo/ 

   • Białystok register of residents

     • 1799-1853

     • 1845-1891 

9. Pomeranian (pomorskie) 

   • PTG database http://www.ptg.gda.pl/index.php/ptgnews/action/basesearch/  

• • http://en.pommernkontakte.de/index.html?sessid=4f3b925b7604738042d83a7c8b3685b5 

  • https://pommerscher-greif.de/greif-index.html 

10. Silesian (śląskie)

• • Częstochowa region http://www.genealodzy.czestochowa.pl/indeksy-metrykalne (login-required)

  • "The birth and marriage advertisements, a register for the years 1785 - 1849" https://agoff.de/?p=90474 

  • http://www.christoph-www.de/kbsilesia2.html 

  • Częstochowa-Radomsko research group ttps://www.crarg.org/ 

11. Subcarpathian (podkarpackie)

• • Rzeszów Vital Records http://www.mikeburger.com/rzeszow.html

  • Poland, Tarnow Roman Catholic Diocese Church Books, 1612-1900

  • Lists of inhabitants and subjects, 18th century and earlier

12. Holy Cross (świętokrzyskie)

• Kossów, Piasek Wielki, Bodzentyn 

13. Warmian-Masurian (warmińsko-mazurskie)

• • Church books from Westmasuren and their locations http://www.historische-masurische-vereinigung.de/qu_bkirchenbuecher-west.html 

  • Eastern Prussian Provinces, Selected Civil Vitals, 1874-1945 $ https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60749/

  • Projekt Warmia https://projektwarmia.pl/?page_id=69 

14. West Pomeranian (zachodniopomorskie)

• • http://pomorskie.indeksy.net/

  • https://indeksygenbaza.wixsite.com/glowna/apkoszalin 

15. Galicia

• • AGAD collection 301 - Lviv Archdiocese 

  • GenTeam https://genteam.at/ 

  • http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/Data/Daum_Surnames/index.htm  

  • https://search.geshergalicia.org/

  • http://jgaliciabukovina.net/161510/article/stanislawow-census-1939

  • Ukrainian residents database (born between 1650 and 1920) https://pra.in.ua/en 

  • Tarnopol residents database https://www.agad.gov.pl/inwentarze/tar.xml 

16. Kresy (Borderlands) excluding Galicia

• • Jewish Records http://www.litvaksig.org 

  • Genmetrika http://www.genmetrika.eu/metrikai.html#met

  • Metrikai https://metrikai.lt/?fbclid=IwAR2T8voDA2BkCqhFOT63TzTnNurMoHKqzi_xSsfB6imLVD5g3gkvxckZ1xM

  • Vilno region http://genealogia.lt/ 

  • Volhynia (Wołyń) region:

    • collections https://wolyn-metryki.pl/joomla/archiwalia

    • indexes http://wolyn-metryki.pl/Wolyn/indexEn.php 

    • parishioners http://wolyn-metryki.pl/joomla/spisy-parafian-index 

    • http://www.odessa3.org/collections/stpete/volhynia/

polish vital records collections

General

• Metryki http://metryki.genealodzy.pl/ 

• Metryki GenBaza http://metryki.genbaza.pl/en (records from State Archives Gdańsk, Kielce, Koszalin, Warsaw, Łódź and Church archive in Kielce)

• Poczekalnia http://poczekalnia.genealodzy.pl/pliki/ 

• Residents register http://meldunkowe.genealodzy.pl/ 

• Szukaj w Archiwach www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl  

• Evangelican collection 

  • http://ezab.de/ 

  • https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=QZWD-Q1X%3A1588932888%3Fcc%3D2564996

  • https://www.archion.de/ 

• Lutheran Records in Russian Poland - SGGEE site 

• "Chrońmy Dziedzictwo" Fundation http://chronmydziedzictwo.pl/archiwum/ 

Regional

• Greater Poland (wielkopolskie)

  • Kalisz https://zasob.archiwum.kalisz.pl

• Kuyavian-Pomeranian (kujawsko-pomorskie)

  • Genealogia w Archiwach https://www.genealogiawarchiwach.pl/ 

  • city books http://www.ksiegipruskie.bydgoszcz.ap.gov.pl/projekt/zrodla.php 

• Lower Silesian (dolnośląskie)

  • Poland, Gliwice Roman Catholic Church Books, 1599-1976 (Opole region)

  • Wrocław (Breslau) area

    • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Breslau#Standesamturkunden 

    • http://www.archeion.net/atom/index.php/%3Bdigitalobject/browse?mediatype=137 

• Lublin (lubelskie)

  • http://fotolubgens.lubgens.eu/

  • ksiegimetrykalne.pl (to access click przeglądarka źródeł)

  • Poland, Lublin Roman Catholic Church Books, 1784-1964

  • Lubelskie Archiwum Cyfrowe

  • Zamojska Historia 

  • http://chelmskahistoria.pl/index.php 

• Prussia

  • https://agoff.de/ 

  • https://www.archion.de/ 

• Silesian (śląskie) and Opole (opolskie)

  • Poland, Gliwice Roman Catholic Church Books, 1599-1976

  • http://www.christoph-www.de/portschlesien.html 

  • https://agoff.de/?p=84586 

  • Poland, Częstochowa Roman Catholic Church Books, 1226-1950 

  • Upper Silesian Genealogical Society collection http://siliusradicum.pl/ksiegi-metrykalne/ 

  • Opava archives http://digi.archives.cz/da/ and map of locations (including Polish parishes)

• Subcarpathian (podkarpackie)

  • Przemyśl collection https://skany.przemysl.ap.gov.pl/  

• Warmian-Masurian (warmińsko-mazurskie)

  • Olsztyn collection http://olsztyn.ap.gov.pl/baza/szukaj.php 

  • https://www.martin-opitz-bibliothek.de/de/sammlungen/digitale-sammlungen/familienforschung/kirchenbuecher/hipplersche-kirchenbucher 

• West Pomeranian (zachodniopomorskie)

  • http://www.westpreussen.de/ 

•  Borderlands (Kresy) and Galicia regions

  • (AGAD Archive) 

    • http://www.agad.gov.pl/inwentarze/testy.html 

    • index of places http://www.agad.gov.pl/inwentarze/indexmet.xml  

    • https://www.ekresy.pl/ 

  • Belarus 

    • vital records collection index http://metrics.tilda.ws/belarus  

    • NIAB (National Historical Archive of Belarus) in Grodno collection 

  • https://kresy.genealodzy.pl/  (This website was created as a compilation of all tools needed to conduct the research on the territory of the Borderlands)

  • Galicia

    • various documents related to Galicia http://bazy.oss.wroc.pl/kzc/view_fond.php search engine http://bazy.oss.wroc.pl/kzc/index.php 

    • Galicia Lutheran 

    • https://www.apokryfruski.org/historia/1772-1918/teksty/ 

  • Lithuania

    • Lithuanian Society of Genealogy and Heraldry http://genealogija.org/ 

    • Virtual Electronic Heritage System - https://www.epaveldas.lt/home

    • list of Żmudź (Samogitia) region parishes vital records registers and parishioners lists 

  • Ukraine 

    • vital records collections index http://metrics.tilda.ws/ukraine 

    • State Archives of Khmelnytsky Oblast https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1YPhxgRDi-RfMe_OXnNAQMD5ADq811J5G 

    • Ukraine Lviv Historical Archive vital records collection index http://pamiecbliskich.com/index.php/pl/materialy/ksiegi-metrykalne-rzymskokatolickie-udostepnione-w-archiwum-we-Lwowie 

    • szukajwarchiwach.pl - Tarnopil - list of Greek Catholic Parishes 

    • Prashhur - metrical church books database

    • Digital copies of Crimea Archive https://tsdea.archives.gov.ua/metric-books/?arch_id=11  and https://tsdea.archives.gov.ua/metric-books/?arch_id=37&fund_id=1 

    • CDIAL in Lviv:

      • Catalogue of metric books of Greek Catholic parishes (1686-1968 ) updated 2020

      • Catalogue of metric books of Roman Catholic parishes of Galicia (1600-1946) updated 2020

      • Catalogue of metric books of Orthodox parishes (1711-1944 ) updated 2020

  • Civil Registry office in Lutowiska list of Greek Catholic registers

  • Wołyń

    • http://leitfaden.wolhynien.de/guide_pol.pdf (PL) and http://leitfaden.wolhynien.de/guide.pdf (GR)

    • http://wolyn-metryki.pl/joomla/rozmaitosci/78-artykuly-metryki-wolyn/114-archiwalia 

    • Greek Catholic parishes held in Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg - original version, google drive version

    • http://free.of.pl/w/wolynskie/miejsca/ksiegi.html 

  • Zabużańskie (Lviv, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, Wołyń Voivodeships) vital record collection

    • till 1939: collection: https://um.warszawa.pl/documents/55950/1935735/zbior_ksiegi_zabuzanskie.pdf 

    • write to: https://bip.warszawa.pl/Menu_podmiotowe/urzad_stanu_cywilnego/Wydzialy/USC_WR_III/default.htm 

    • after 1939: ZAGS (Zapis Aktiw Gromadianskogo Stanu) in Lviv: Archiw ZAGS, 23 Getmana Doroszenko Street, 79001 Lviv, UKRAINE

• Zhytomyr/Żytomierz area - collection from State Archive of Zhytomyr Region

Vital records registers - digital libraries

• Biała Podlaska XVIII-XX century http://www.bbc.mbp.org.pl/dlibra/publication?id=9820&tab=3

• Białystok 1907-1908 http://pbc.biaman.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=20004&dirds=1&tab=1 

• Białystok Evangelical marriage records 1841-1875 http://pbc.biaman.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=20003&dirids=1 

• Borzyskowo http://zbc.ksiaznica.szczecin.pl/dlibra/publication?id=29409&tab=3 

• Brodnia http://bc.wimbp.lodz.pl/dlibra/publication?id=26103&tab=3 

• Brzeźnio http://bc.wimbp.lodz.pl/dlibra/publication?id=23233&tab=3 

• Dmosin http://bc.wimbp.lodz.pl/dlibra/publication?id=35716&tab=3 

• Działdowo, Morąg i Pasłęk - extract from vital records registers 1897-1898 http://dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl:8283/dlibra/docmetadata?id=18227&from=publication 

• Grabowiec http://mbc.cyfrowemazowsze.pl/dlibra/publication?id=4077&tab=3 

• Katowice birth 1875 https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/28235?id=28235&dirds=1&tab=3 

• Kruszyna (Częstochowa region):

  • birth deaths 1780-1802 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=9421

  • births 1598-1635 i 1663-1687 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=6804&dirds=1&tab=3

  • births 1642-1662 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=6828&dirds=1&tab=3

  • births 1687-1715 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=9420

  • births, marriages, deaths 1770-1781 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=9023

  • marriages 1602-1687 http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7116

• Raciborowice

  • http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/publication?id=101155&fbclid=IwAR2sJsaJkxFIOhwvAnuTXt0_nRB6A8h4i814-KrRhvCv1QGYDdy0cXRbqx8

• Rawa Mazowiecka

  • https://www.parafia.rawa-maz.pl/wirtualna-parafia/ 

• Staszów and Rytwiany vital records baptism 1614-1671 http://bc.bdsandomierz.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2181&fbclid=IwAR0fz-QhkgSb6A9xAoRG_cDLfLBDkK-2NXnNuYpaan-rEpP9C3IJkaf0IIQ 

• Sandomierz (city marriage records 1647-1718) http://bc.bdsandomierz.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=2160&fbclid=IwAR0u5wQNgGp46-rJwHwO-0oIk7O0ZsMl5msDwzHbOXpjIiAMLC-94ptS0CU 

• Więcławice http://mbc.malopolska.pl/publication/86487 

• Wiśniew 1680-1825 https://minskmaz.com/mac/najstarsze-ksiegi-metrykalne-parafii-wisniew-1680-1825 

• Wrocław http://www.archeion.net/atom/index.php/;digitalobject/browse?page=1&mediatype=137&limit=25 

regional resources compilations

• "Spis Bieżeńców 1914-1923" - List of persons exiled from the western provinces of the Russian Empire in the depths of Russia (located at Projekt Podlasie portal, registration required)

• Court, Land and Notary records

  • https://archiwalia.genealodzy.pl/ 

  • https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Poland_Court_Records 

  • 1793-1794 Land Records of South Prussia http://genealogy.drefs.net/Introduction.htm

  • Collection Kiyv Cvil Court cases ~1760-1914 (in Russian)

  • Ciechanów, Maków, and Przasnysz areas - database

  • Duszno

  • Łęczyca area 

  • Sieradz area

  • Zakroczym area 

  • Western Prussia Land Records http://www.odessa3.org/collections/land/wprussia/

  • Eastern Prussia Land Records https://www.ahnen-gesucht.de/ostpreussen/gueteradressbuecher/1932 

  • Tadeusz Epsztein Polish land ownership in Ukraine (Kiev, Podolian and Volyn Governorates) in 1890

• Galicia 

  • Bukovina & Galicia Censuses for the Years 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900 https://czernowitz.blogspot.com/2010/09/bukovina-census-for-years-1869-1880.html 

  • Eastern Galicia http://www.halgal.com/ 

  • German colonies 

  • Gesher Galicia https://search.geshergalicia.org/ 

  • Jewish Galicia & Bukowina http://jgaliciabukovina.net/ 

• Genealogy indexer (access to city directories) http://genealogyindexer.org/ 

• General compendium - previous Stankiewicz website (compilation of various lists, indexes and meaning of surnames, etc - Polish only, use of google chrome for translation recommended)

• Genszukacz https://www.geneszukacz.genealodzy.pl/

• Germans from Russia and Eastern Europe Settlement Locations https://sites.google.com/riehl-partner-web.de/grsl-daten/startpage?authuser=0 

• German genealogy server http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/database/14905?begin=&offset=0&max=200 

• Latvia, Ludza, Immigration records, 1919-1940

• Online Ortsfamilienbücher 

• Opole district https://agoff.de/?p=78576 

• Ormianie - Armenians in Poland

  • list of various resources

  • indexes

• Podole, Volhynia, Kiyv area Directory 1913 (Russian)

• Pomeranian Genealogy:

  • http://www.genealoger.com/german/pommern/ger_pommern.htm 

  • http://hinterpommern.de/ 

  • http://www.westpreussen.de/ 

  • http://mypomerania.com/

• Silesia list of Church registers Kirchenbucher Schlesiens 1902 

• Teki Dworzaczka (indexes relevant to Grand Poland Nobilities) http://teki.bkpan.poznan.pl/index_glowna.html 

• http://bkpan.american-systems.pl/preview2/index.php

• Troki area:

  • http://www.genmetrika.eu/

• Vilnius area:

  • region http://genealogia.lt/ 

  • Revision lists (census) 1795-1844 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2826844?availability=Family%20History%20Library and explanation per parish (in Polish) here

  • House hold project

  • Podbrodzie area http://www.podbrodzie.info.pl/index.php 

• Wołyń (Volhynia) 

  • http://wolyn.freehost.pl/index.html 

  • https://wolhynien.de/index.htm 

• WTG "Gniazdo" (Great Poland) resource collection