Additional Resources and Help Tips for Genealogists and Researchers
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JRI-Poland Project Volunteer Guides
- JRI-Poland’s Guide to Adding Image Links to the Polish AGAD Digital Archives (.PDF)
- JRI-Poland’s Guide to Adding Image Links to the Polish National Digital Archives (.PDF)
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
- A Guide to Headings of 19th Century Galician Jewish Vital Record Forms (.PDF)
- Polish Family Relationship Terms
- Composing Letters to Polish Repositories (Polish Genealogical Society of America)
- Polish Letter Writing Guide (Family Search)
- 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
- English-Polish Medical Dictionary
- Pronouncing names of Polish towns
- DeepL – Alternate Polish-English Online Translation Tool
Geography Resources
- Polish Distance Calculator with map
- Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries (Scanned pages in Polish)
- Polish Geographical Dictionary: Translated descriptions of Polish villages and provinces
- Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries
- 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 Reference Resources
- Find a FamilySearch Center
- FamilySearch Polish Jewish Microfilm List
- Vital Records in Poland
- Polish-Jewish Genealogy – Questions and Answers
- JRI-Poland’s Guide to Using the Polish National Digital Archives (.PDF)
- Viewing Original Documents Posted on the Polish State Archives Web Site (.PDF)
- The Slownik Nazwisk is Online (Dictionary of Surnames Currently Used in Poland)
- Search historical directories on “Genealogy Indexer” site
- The Polish Postal Service (a brief history)
- Spiritual Genealogy: A Look At Polish Notary Documentation (.PDF)
- Sources on the Holocaust in Occupied Poland (.PDF)