Poland Genealogy resources

Useful link for finding small towns/villages in Poland adventureus Poland

Do Sur names have meanings? As the word above kamyk meant pebble. Hi Krysia, So did the sur names have meanings as well? My last name is kurowski my grandmama's and grandpapa's are all gone now, shame too cause i miss them alot.
Gr8 Grandmama and Gr8 Grandpapa's parents came from crakow is it spelt? Migrated into wisconsin usa, they had stated a little town called krakow wisconsin. Since there town is named after a town in poland i see the use of words that are connected. I always wondered if last names had meanings as well.

A great link for finding Polish towns and villages is
http://nowamapa.szukacz.pl/
You can also use a wild card i.e. war*
It will find all towns starting with war.

Bratski2

Your surname Kurowski is derived from the root 'kur' meaning 'hen' also there is a 'kur' coat of arms. In the 1990 census there were 15,559 Kurowski's in Poland.

Are there any resources you guys know of that might be useful for me, my polish grandfather was part of the resistance in WW2 and then joined the British Army.

Start with his British Army records and work backwards.

Check for Naturalization Papers.

Talk to family.

When in the resistance: Was he based in the UK or Poland ?

Which unit did he serve with in WWII ?

Everyone should at least look at the Polish Genealogical Society of America website www.pgsa.org. They have an annual conference near Chicago in the Fall. Plus there are regional chapters as well. I am a member and its a great organization.

Also check out a new site www.moikrewni.pl on the bottom of this Polish website you can go to another page called Mapa Nazwisk (a surname mapping search engine) type in your surname, making sure that if diacritical marks are needed then they must be applied. Otherwise use their alphbet on the bottom of that page and search alphabetically. Each surname may have a masculine and feminine version and different possibilities with diacritical marks. but if you have that down, the maps are pretty cool and when you go over each potential location within Poland it provides a call-out of the area that you are over.

still tracing polish family, many birth certificates in russian,but vary from areas in different parts,why?

What varies from different parts? The language or the birth certificates?

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It is a great organization. I belong and will be going to their semi annual Conference in April, to be held in Salt Lake City. A plus is that you get to go to the FHC and Library to all of your research.

Have fun, I can't make that one. You'll have a great amount of resources. Unfortunately, my ancestral towns have not be microfilmed.

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/polish.html

read this. will give you a better idea of why some records are in Russian.

Historical Directories

With this resource it might be possible to find some family, a home address, business address and more.

It is a work in progress, so check every once in a while.

http://www.dbhd.org/

Edit: The pages seem slow to load, but they are there.

ROGALLA FAMILY

My great grandfather came to America from Czersk, Poland. I tried to contact
someone in Czersk but no response. We will be in Czersk in May and it would be nice to meet my relatives. My great grandfathers name was Apolinary Rogalla
and I think he came to America about 1860's.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Thanks

Rjrogalla,

Go to the church in the town and speak with the priest or lay person there.
They should know of your grandparents. If it is a large town that is another matter and there will be more churches.

Kuba

I am finding it very hard to find my grandfathers records online, Would anyone know of any sites that match prisoner names to thier numbers from auschwitz??

I would welcome any sites that can point to any birth certificates around the katowitce area.

Been as we are on the subject, would the surname Piecha have any kind of translation that you could help me out with??

Thanks for everyones help so far.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze85xxc/polegl/polonia_connection.html

New Website I found browsing for the American Polonia.

Another website to look for relatives: http://www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index.php?id=szukam