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Atlas
of Eastern Europe: 7 maps published by the CIA in 1990 for
Poland, afterwards goto the Europe Maps page for
even more Polish maps.
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Genealogy &
Poland – a guide
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Handwriting Examples of
Cyrillic Script: Cyrillic letters that can be confused;
handwritten examples of the Latin letter, its Cyrillic equivalent and what
that letter can look like.
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Index of the
Repressed – a database that once finished will contain information on
hundreds of thousands of Poles who were killed &/or imprisoned during
the Russian occupation. They are currently translating pages into
English. Databases online so far include the deaths at Katyn,
Kharkov, & Tver.
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Lithuanian Global Genealogical
Society Databank: surname index; transcribed records from
Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Washington, and Wisconsin.
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Mammie's
Genealogy & Polish Links
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Napoleonic Polish Translation
Aids: examples of both Polish & Russian Polish birth, marriage,
and death records along with their English translations. Also has the
Russian Alphabet with
its English, Polish, and German equivalents.
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New Provinces of
Poland: Maps to compare the old 49 provinces to the new 16
provinces. The rezoning of Poland occurred in 1998 when it was voted
to decentralize the government, give more power to local government, and to
do away with the old communist era administration.
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Poland – A Country Study:
courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress
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Poland GenWeb: information
on Poland's history, transcribed records, queries
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Poland's Genealogy Forum:
FamilyTreeMaker's Polish message boards
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Polish Genealogical Society of
Connecticut and the Northeast: include a list of what’s available
in their library
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Polish Genealogy Society of America:
includes searchable databases
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Polish
Genealogy Word List
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Polish
Roots Mailing List – courtesy of Rootsweb
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Polish State Archives (in
English)
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Polish Terms
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The Polish Genealogy
HomePage: by Rafal Prinke, includes genealogy links and
resources, also has a list of surnames with corresponding email addresses
for those researching the name
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Rymut’s Volumes Online: This
is a great site, it is an alphabetical listing of Polish surnames &
their frequency in 1990. To use: click on “Slownika Nazwisk
Wspolczesnie w Polsce Uzywanych,” enter the surname in the box (note,
diacritical marks are necessary, so just cut & paste the Polish letters
as needed from the website), hit enter or click “szukaj” to search.
You can enter the whole name, or just the first few letters. The
results page will list the surname, the frequency for the entire country,
and then the breakdown for each province. If you click on “tutaj
sznajduja sie objasnienie skrotkow” a pop up window will open to give the
full name of the province for each of the two letter codes on the results
page.
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Szlachta
Wielkopolska – Nobility
of Greater Poland: Genealogical data for numerous noble Poles,
divided by surname.
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