Family History Research in Poland
For the past 20 years, we’ve carried out extensive research at repositories like the Polish State Archives, National Library of Poland, and Family History Library in Salt Lake City, USA. Working at archives like these has enabled us to gain a wealth of expertise in a wide variety of subject areas relating to Polish genealogy, and many of the families we've worked on are available for review on this site. If you’re looking for assistance with your project, we have extensive research experience in all parts of Poland, as well as other countries your ancestors may have emigrated to in the past. Please click the link below if you’d like to hire our team to assist you with a custom-made genealogy project in any of these places.
Homo Sapiens, or anatomically modern humans, have lived in Poland for the past 12,000 years, as can be seen by the physical evidence of bones, tools, and other artifacts left behind there. During ancient times, the territory of Poland was ruled by various tribes, including the Celts, Scythians, Balts, Sarmatians, and Polans. There is physical evidence of habitation in cities like Kalisz (3rd century), Poznań (9th century), and Kraków (4th century) prior to the Middle Ages, and later cities like Warsaw played important roles in the development of art, religion, politics, and commerce in the country. Perhaps your ancestors played a part in this fascinating history, and left behind important documentation that connects to your present-day genealogy? To help get you started on this exciting voyage of discovery, we’ve assembled an expert team of genealogists to help you uncover the unique story of your family's journey through time.
Records for most parts of Poland can be found in Warsaw at the State Archives of Poland and National Library of Poland, as well as the many regional archives and repositories located throughout the country. Available records for genealogy research include civil registration, church records, tax lists, military records, passports, censuses, and other types of records. The most important records for genealogy research, though, would be civil registration and church records, which would be the primary record types for family history research in Poland. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths officially began in Poland in 1808, and these records would generally be the best place to start with your Polish genealogy search. After exploring the civil registration records in depth, you would probably get into church parish records, which are sometimes available back to the 1600s or even earlier in Poland.
If you'd like to continue research on your own, please click on the following links for additional resources relating to your Polish history and genealogy. To get the best results with your research, we'd recommend subscriptions to the following sites, as well as autosomal and Y-DNA testing to help with any longstanding brick walls you may have encountered your tree.
If you’d like to learn more about your genealogy and are interested in building a high-quality and well-documented tree in Poland with the help of a professional research team, we're here to help! We're passionate about genealogy and would welcome the opportunity to assist you with creating an exciting record of your ancestors that can be enjoyed for many generations to come. The surnames listed below belong to some of the most noteworthy in Poland, whose families have been thoroughly documented on our site. Please click on the links below to visit some of the pages we've created on these families, which might give you some idea about what we could also achieve for you during a typical genealogy project in Poland or elsewhere. Our on-the-ground team of researchers, who live in places like Krakow and Warsaw, can help you find your ancestors in Poland, as well as places like the United States, Canada, Argentina, and elsewhere. Thanks for visiting our site and good luck with your research!
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