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Ahnenforschung in Polen

Ancestry - The Polish Connection

Genealogy & heritage community for Polish descendants & friends.

Eastern European Ancestry

Discover your Eastern European family history and start your family tree. Find resources for all Eastern European countries and access many genealogy records. This website is dedicated to making Eastern European ancestry research as free as possible.

FEEFHS - Federation of East European Family History Societies

Genealogia - Polska, drzewo genealogiczne, pochodzenie i znaczenie imion i nazwisk, ciekawostki, historia rodzinna

Genealogy - Poland, Family Tree, the origin and meaning of names, destinations, family history. Polish website (in Polish only) for genealogists and all interested in the subject. Provides general and local news, genealogist's calendar, guide for newbies and articles for advanced ones, examples based on author's researches, support for local genealogical societies, organizes gen-websites' contests.

Genealogia Polak

Polish genealogy portal

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Poland.pl

PolandGenWeb

Part of the WorldGenWeb project.

Polish Research - Sites to Assist You in Your Polish Research

PolishOrigins :: Uncovering your roots in Poland

Our mission is to provide you with the best knowledge and a deep emotional experience by creating a friendly space for sharing interests and feelings about your Polish origins.

PolishRoots: The Polish Genealogy Source

Pomerania / Pommern

Resources for Sepharadic Genealogy

Sephardic genealogical research begins with the search for your ancestor's country of origin. It could be almost any country where Sephardim lived - Bulgaria, Curacao, Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, any Middle Eastern country, even Germany, Holland, Italy or Malta. Small numbers of Sephardim even lived in Poland and Russia and had names like Levine, Rangel and Calahora.

Slownika nazwisk wsp

Dictionary of surnames currently used in Poland. Compiled in 1990, it includes over 800,000 surnames & provides the total number of Polish citizens with that surname.

Surname Navigator Poland

A one window, megasearch engine for surnames. Can simultaneously search various databases using only one input screen. Includes CGI (LDS Mormons) Poland, Ancestral File (LDS Mormons) Poland, Geneanet Poland, Google, genealogy Poland, Google News Genealogy Poland, Rootsweb message board Poland, Ancestry.com, Email Finder Poland, White Pages Poland.

the internet Polish Genealogical Source

A large number of organized internet links carefully selected to help Polish researchers. Finding useful Polish genealogical information is very easy because this website is designed to be fast and simple to use. Useful research information along with a large number of surnames for specific Polish locations. Also, users of the iPGS website can add their own surnames and locations being researched in order to make potential ancestral connections and contacts with other Polish researchers.

The Order of the Virtuti Militari and its Cavaliers 1792-1992

This book has 26,506 names of persons and military organizations. It is presented in English and Polish.

The Polish Genealogy Project

Blog for those researching their Polish/Galicia ancestry. Resources, databases, directories, archives, research, translation aids, writing to Poland, letters, vital records, etc.

This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry

Onlne article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Explains the geographic divide between taste preferences in gefilte fish in Eastern Europe as well as other clues to Jewish geographic origins including prayer books, head coverings, and tombstone shapes.