Historical and general information on research of Polish civil records
- FamilySearch, Poland Genealogy
- FamilySearch, Poland Civil Records
- FamilySearch, Poland Jewish Records
- JewishGen, Polish-Jewish Genealogy – Questions and Answers, by Warren Blatt
- JewishGen, Vital Records in Poland, by Warren Blatt
- JewishGen InfoFile Index – Poland
- The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation
- Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Language resources
- A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents
- In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Russian Documents
- Polish Words and Terms Found in Documents
- Polish Occupation Definitions (19th century)
- Occupation Translation Guide from Polish and French into English (20th century)
- A Guide to Headings of 19th Century Galician Jewish Vital Record Forms (.PDF)
- Polish Family Relationship Terms
- Polish Genealogical Word List (FamilySearch)
- Composing Letters to Polish Repositories (Polish Genealogical Society of America)
- Poland Letter Writing Guide (FamilySearch)
- Guide to Reading Letters from the Archives in Poland
- Burt’s Polish-English Dictionary, 1900 and click the “Read online” button
- Chodzko’s Polish-English Dictionary, 1910
- Pronouncing names of Polish towns
Assistance in translating records
- JewishGen’s ViewMate page
- JewishGen Discussion Group
- Genealogical Translations Facebook group
- Other Jewish genealogy Facebook groups identified below
- Google Translate (for printed documents or easily readable handwritten documents
- DeepL – Alternate Polish-English Online Translation Tool
Geographical and historical resources
- JRI-Poland Town Explorer pages
- Polish Distance Calculator with map
- Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries (scanned pages in Polish)
- FamilySearch Microfilm Master: find the nearest town to your small shtetl that has Jewish records
- Virtual Shtetl
- Ukraine Research Division (formerly Ukraine Special Interest Group) pages for Volhynia Province
- Belarus Research Division (formerly Belarus Special Interest Group) pages for Grodno Gubernia
- JewishGen German Research Division (formerly German-Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSIG)) pages for East Prussia (Ostpreußen), Pomerania (Pommern), Posen, Silesia (Schleisen), and West Prussia (Westpreußen)
- International Jewish Cemetery Project, Jewish cemeteries in Poland
- Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group Journal
- JewishGen Communities Database
- JewishGen Gazetteer
- Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe
- 1820-1827 Map of Kingdom of Poland
- Gesher Galicia Map Room – Historic maps of Poland and Galicia
Academic papers utilizing Polish records and JRI-Poland data
- Reading Between The Lines: Mining Jewish History Through Extraction of Polish Archive Data (Judy Golan)
- Family and Kinship in the Jewish City of Piotrków Trybunalski in the 19th Century (Tomasz Jankowski)
- A Genealogical History of the Jews of Pinczow (Poland) in the 18th & 19th centuries (Heshel Teitelbaum)
Other online databases and records
- JewishGen
- JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register
- JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
- Gesher Galicia
- Yad Vashem – The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Arolsen Archives
- Polish State Archives – old search engine
- Polish State Archives – new search engine
- Geneteka.genealodzy.pl (including 1808-25 mixed BMD records with Jewish records)
- Search historical directories on “Genealogy Indexer” site
- Ancestry (pay)
- MyHeritage (pay)
- FamilySearch
Online family trees
- JewishGen’s Family Tree of the Jewish People
- Ancestry (pay)
- MyHeritage (pay)
- Geni (free or pay)
Genealogical societies and Facebook groups
- International Association of Jewish Genealogists (“IAJGS”)
- IAJGS’s list of national and regional Jewish genealogical societies
- Jewish Genealogy Portal
- Tracing the Tribe
- Jewish Ancestry in Poland
- Jewish Genealogy Poland
- There are also many Facebook groups devoted to Jewish genealogy for towns and regions in Poland, which may be found by searching town names in the Facebook search bar
Other reference resources
- Find a FamilySearch Center
- Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv
- FamilySearch Polish Jewish Microfilm List
- JRI-Poland’s Guide to Using the Polish National Digital Archives (2013) (.PDF)
- Viewing Original Documents Posted on the Polish State Archives Web Site (.PDF)
- Slownik Nazwisk (Dictionary of Surnames Currently Used in Poland)
- Polish Notary Records (.PDF)
- Sources on the Holocaust in Occupied Poland (.PDF)
- Identifying Gravestones with only Patronymics (.PDF)