The Pomeranian Genealogical Society’s search engine is essential for researching ancestors in Northern Poland and has undergone recent changes. It covers areas including the Pomeranian Voivodeship and parts of Kuyavian-Pomeranian and West Pomeranian Voivodeships. Despite some missing features, it remains a valuable tool for genealogical searches.
Category: Indexing database
An indexation database is a portal that allows you to find information from a specific category of documents that have been copied from the originals and organized by the creators of a given database.
How to search in Eastern Poland? Lubelskie Voivodeship Part 2
In an earlier entry about searching for ancestors in the Lubelskie Voivodeship How to search in Eastern Poland? Lubelskie Voivodeship. I discussed the Lubgens database, which contains… Read more “How to search in Eastern Poland? Lubelskie Voivodeship Part 2 “
Was your ancestor a Greater Poland Insurgent?
When Poland was established after World War I, its territory initially included part of the lands of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian partitions. This was changed by the Greater Poland Uprising, and the names of the insurgents can be found in the database in question.
How to search in Eastern Poland? Podlasie and Masovia.
The article discusses an indexing portal focused on the genealogy of the Podlasie and Masovian regions in Poland. The portal enables access to two search engines, GENPOD and Catalog of Metrical Records Book, available only in Polish. GENPOD offers surname searches across a few different databases. Yet, the large volume of search results requires careful selection, which is challenging given the vast data area.The Catalog of Record Books allows users to access parish details, offering information such as establishment year, address and list of record books. Despite complications, the portal is a valuable tool for researching north-eastern Polish genealogy.
How to search in Eastern Poland? Lubelskie Voivodeship.
As I wrote in a previous entry, the PTG – Geneteka indexation database is most useful for central and south-eastern Poland. This mainly concerns the areas of… Read more “How to search in Eastern Poland? Lubelskie Voivodeship.”
Finding Your Polish Ancestry: Tips and Resources
Often, all we know about our great-grandfather or great-grandmother is that they claimed to come from Poland. And they were not necessarily Poles – they have been… Read more “Finding Your Polish Ancestry: Tips and Resources”
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