Research Polish ancestry online with this collection of Polish genealogy databases and indexes from Poland, the United States and other countries.
1. Polish Genealogical Society of America – Research Databases
Birth records, cemetery burials, death indexes and other records from Polish churches, Polish language newspapers and other sources in cities and states across America are available for free online searching from the Polish Genealogical Society of America.
2. The JewishGen Poland Database
Search or browse more than four million records for Poland, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, business directories, voter lists, passenger manifests, Yizkor books and other Holocaust sources. A joint project of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen.
3. Poland, Roman Catholic Church Books, 1600-1950
Images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Częstochowa, Gliwice, and Lublin Roman Catholic Dioceses of Poland. Births end in 1910 and marriages in 1935. Free from FamilySearch.org.
4. Poland, Radom Diocese Church Books, 1654-1946
Images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Radom. Free from FamilySearch.org.
5. Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
An index to more than 3.2 million Jewish birth, marriage and death records from over 500 Polish towns, as well as indices from other sources, such as census records, legal notices, passports and newspaper announcements.
6. Cmentarze olederskie - Ocalmy od zapomnienia
Evangelische Church Records 1819-1835 for Nekla, Posen and Preussen, plus births, marriages and deaths in Nekla Evangelisch Church Records, 1818 - 1874. The site also includes land registers for Nekla, Siedleczek, Gierlatowo, Chlapowo, and Barcyzna as well as some photographs of area cemetery headstones. In Polish.
7. Indexes to Death Notices in Dziennik Chicagoski, 1890–1920 and 1930–1971
The Dziennik Chicagoski was a Polish-language newspaper which served Chicago's Polish community. This database was compiled by the Polish Genealogy Society of America.
8. Polish Marriages in Chicago Through 1915
This index of marriages in Catholic Parishes in Chicago was also created by the Polish Genealogy Society of America.
9. Rzeszów Vital Records
Search by surname in approximately 14,000 vital records transcribed by Mike Burger from a variety of Family History Library microfilms covering the Przeclaw area of Poland.
10. 1929 Polish Business Directory – Town Index
JewishGen has indexed more than 34,000 locations in inter-war Poland, with links to directory pages for each city, town and village.11. 1793–1794 Land Records of South Prussia
Browse information from 83 volumes of 1793-1794 South Prussia Land Registration Records. These land records provide the head of household names of nobility villages.
12. Polish Origins – Polish Genealogy Database Search Tool
The Polish Genealogy Databases tool from PolishOrigins.com allows you to access the increasingly rich Polish genealogy resources available online and see the content displayed in English, by entering a keyword (surname, place). Google and Google Translate are used to search and provide translations from Polish-language sites. Included websites and databases are handpicked for their Polish genealogy content.
