Helpful Links

We are not alone in bringing information about Polish genealogical research and general information about Poland to the internet.  Below please find some helpful links to other organizations and websites that may be of interest to you!

Polish Genealogical Societies in the U.S.

• Polish Genealogical Society of America  
• Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut & the Northeast, Inc.
• Polish Genealogical Society of California 
• Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan
• Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota
• Polish Genealogical Society of New York State
• Polish Genealogical Society of Texas
• Toledo Polish Genealogical Society

Local Websites and Links of Interest

• Polish Center for Discovery & Learning - located in Chicopee, Mass.
• The New England Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation
• The National Park Service's webpages about the Poles of Salem, Mass.​​
• Turners Falls MA Digitized Newspapers 1870 to 1949
• The Poles at Turners Falls article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper 1900
• Through The City, To These Fields: Eastern European Immigration
• Wysocki Onion Storage Postcard c. 1895
• Aliens in New England Polish Farmers in the Connecticut Valley 1912
• Are We To Be Polanized?  1900 newspaper article
• Immigration 1880 to 1920 in the Connecticut River Valley

National and US Polish Organizations and Centers

• Polish American Congress

• Polish National Catholic Church
• Polish American Historical Association
• Polish American Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Polish American Association, Chicago, IL

Translation

• Genealogical Translations group on Facebook, which offers free assistance with documents in Polish, Russian, German, Latin, etc. 
• Genealogical Translation Guides for Polish, Russian, Latin, and German. Highly recommended!
• Phonetic Gazetteer from JewishGen

Surname Search

• Rozkład występowania nazwisk w powiatach (Distribution of surnames in counties)
• Nazwiska Polskie (database showing geographical distribution of Polish surnames using data from circa 2002)

E-Mail Group

• Polish Genius (A mailing list for those who are researching the genealogy of their Polish ancestry)

​Genealogical Resources - Massachusetts-Specific Related Links

• Massachusetts historical collections from libraries, museums, and archives
• Massachusetts Archives
• Massachusetts Vital Records & Genealogy Research 
• ​Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920​

Genealogical Resources - US Records

• FamilySearch.org
• ​Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Digitized Newspapers
• US Immigration & Naturalization Service: Alien Registrations 1940-1944
• Ellis Island
• Ellis Island passenger search (free; covers New York arrivals, 1820-1957)
• Steve Morse's website (offers a variety of tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, etc.)​
• World War II Military & Civilian Genealogy Research
• ​Findagrave

Genealogical Resources - Polish Records

• Polish Roots
• Geneteka Search Page in English 
• Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne (Polish Genealogical Association)
• Lubelskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne (Lublin Region Genealogical Association)
• Baza Miejscowości Kresowych (Phonetic gazetteer for places in the Kresy Wschodnie, or Eastern Borderlands region that was part of Poland between the wars)
• Projekt Podlasie (indexed vital records database for the Podlasie region)
• Lubelskie Korzenie Regestry (indexed vital records database for the Lublin region)
• Szukajwarchiwach (Primary search portal for the digitized and non-digitized holdings of the Polish state archives)
• Archiwalia: Pozametrykalne źródła archiwalne dla genealogów (Non-metrical archival resources for genealogists)
• Metryki (digital archive of metrical records, i.e. vital records, from Poland; may or may not be indexed in Geneteka)
• Geneteka (Database of Indexed vital records from Poland)
• Najnowszy skorowidz wszystkich miejscowości z przysiółkami w Królestwie Galicyi.... (Jan Bigo's Index of places in the Kingdom of Galicia, published in 1914)​
• Gesher Galicia Town Locator (gazetteer of places in Galicia, or Austrian Poland)
• Tabella miast, wsi, osad, Królestwa Polskiego : z wyrażeniem ich położenia i ludności alfabetycznie ułożona. T. 2 (gazetteer for places in "Russian Poland" similar to the Skorowidz Królestwa Polskiego, but published 50 years earlier, in 1827)
• Tabella miast, wsi, osad, Królestwa Polskiego : z wyrażeniem ich położenia i ludności alfabetycznie ułożona. T. 1 (gazetteer for places in "Russian Poland" similar to the Skorowidz Królestwa Polskiego, but published 50 years earlier, in 1827)
• Skorowidz Królestwa Polskiego, T. 1 (Index of the Kingdom of Poland, volume 1; gazetteer of places in the Kingdom of Poland, i.e. "Russian Poland," published in 1877)
• Skorowidz Królestwa Polskiego, T. 2 (Index of the Kingdom of Poland, volume 2; gazetteer of places in the Kingdom of Poland, i.e. "Russian Poland," published in 1877)
• Mapa Szukacz (Map Search)
• Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland)

Other Locations Links
Kartenmeister (gazetteer of places in East prussia, including Memel, Westprussia, Brandenburg, Posen, Pomerania, and Silesia)



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