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		INTRODUCTION

TOWNS AND REPOSITORIES IN POLAND

The database relates to towns within the current borders of Poland and towns that were formerly in Poland, but are now within the borders of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

The documents were located in the following repositories:

Warsaw	Head Office of State Archives ul. Dluga 6 Warszawa 00-950, Poland Tel: 48/22/81-32-06; Fax: 48/22/831-75-63 e-mail: ndap@archiwa.gov.pl http://www.archiwa.gov.pl
	Note: to contact wojewodztwo (province) and powiat (district) archives in Poland, CLICK HERE.
	Polish State Archives-AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records) ul. Dluga 6, skr. poczt. 1005 Warszawa 00-950, Poland Tel: 48/22/831-5491; Fax: 48/22/831-1608 e-mail: archagad@poczta.onet.pl http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/agad/eng/index.eng.html
	Archiwum Panstwowe m. Warszawy (State Archive of the Capital City of Warsaw) ul. Krzywe Kolo 7 Warszawa 00-270, Poland Tel: 48/22/831-1803; Fax: 48/22/831-3731 e-mail: apwarsz@polbox.com/APW http://warszawa.ap.gov.pl/intro.html
	Urzad Stanu Cywilnego w m. st. Warszawie Archiwum ul. Smyczkowa 14 Warszawa 02-678 Poland Tel:48/22/847-4821; Fax: 48/22/847-6062
	Note: This USC Warszawa office has documents from towns formerly in Poland and now in Ukraine, including the area of the former Eastern Galicia comprised of the provinces of Tarnopol/Ternopil, Lvov/Lviv and Stanislawow/ Ivano Frankivsk. This material was formerly located in the USC Warsaw Srodmiescie office at 1/3 Jezuicka Street.
	Jewish Historical Institute ul. Tlomackie 3/5 Warszawa 00-090 Poland Tel: 48/22/827-9221; Fax: 48/22/827-8372 e-mail: secretary@jewishinstitute.org.pl http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl
Dynow	Public Library of Dynow ul. ks. J. Ozoga 6 36-065 Dynow, Poland Tel: 48/16/652-2653 e-mail: bibliotekadynow@autograf.pl or: biblioteka.dynow@op.pl
Note: For addresses of USC offices (civil registration offices with [surviving] twentieth century vital records, usually located in the local town hall), go to Polish Yellow Pages http://www.pkt.pl/index.php?lang=eng. Type "Stanu Cywilnego" in "keyword." Select correct województwo. Type town name if there are no diacritical marks. Otherwise, double click on "select" and choose name from list. If your town is not included, perhaps it is too small to have a separate USC office and the documents could be registered in a nearby larger town. If you wish to request information about a specific individual from a USC office, it is recommended that your brief letter be written in Polish. Also see chapter on this website entitled "Urzad Stanu Cywilnego Warszawa-Srodmiescie" for additional information. Also, see * below at the end of this page. Note: Jewish vital records are also interspersed with the Roman Catholic vital records for the period of 1808-1825 (separate records by religious community began in 1826). Therefore, the archives of the local Catholic Archdiocese (in Poland) should also be researched in addition to the Polish State Archives. See: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp to search by place name in order to determine if these earlier records have been microfilmed for the town of interest.

Included in this database are repositories outside of Poland holding documents for towns within Poland's current borders including:

Lithuanian State Historical Archives
Gerosios Vilties 10
Vilnius LT-03134, Lithuania
Tel: 370/5/213-74-82; Fax: 370/5/213-76-12
e-mail: istorijos.archyvas@centras.lt

Kaunas Regional Archives
Maironio 28a
Kaunas 44249, Lithuania
Tel: 370/37/732-3073; Fax: 370/37/732-3111
e-mail: archyvas@turbodsl.lt

Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
Soborna Pl., 3-a
Lviv 79008, Ukraine
Tel: 380/322/72-30-63; Fax: 380/322-72-35-08
E-mail: archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net
website: http://www.scarch.kiev.ua/Archives/Central/ca04.ua.html

V. Stefanyk Lviv Scientific Library of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine
vul. Stefanyka 2
79001 Lviv Ukraine
Tel: 380/322/72-57-20; 72-07-13; Fax: 76-51-58
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?nan05
email: manuscr@lsl.lviv.ua

National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk
55 Kropotkina Street
Minsk 220002, Republic of Belarus
Tel: 375/107/268-6522; Fax: 268-6520
e-mail: niab@solo.by
http://www.archives.gov.by/eindex.htm

National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno
2 Tizengauza Square
Grodno 230023, Republic of Belarus
Tel: 375-0152/44-94-66 or 47-28-56
http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/E_Hist_grodno.htm

Grodno Oblast Archives
84 Dzerzhinsk Street
Grodno 230005, Republic of Belarus
Tel/Fax: 375/0152/72-24-43 and 47-04-92
http://www.archives.gov.by/EArh/erx_grodnoo.htm

New Synagogue - Berlin Centrum Judaicum
Oranienburger Strasse 29
10117 Berlin, Germany
Tele: 49/30/88028-425, -426; Fax: 49/30/88028-405
http://mysql.snafu.de/cjudaicum/index.html
e-mail: archiv@cjudaicum.de

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
P.O. Box 1149,
Jerusalem 91010, Israel
http://sites.huji.ac.il/archives/
email: archives@vms.huji.ac.il

Note: For additional information about documents, archives and towns in Poland, visit:

Auschwitz Jewish Center: http://www.ajcf.org
CIA The World Factbook/ Poland
      https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Auschwitz Museum: http://www.auschwitz.org.pl
Majdanek Museum: http://www.majdanek.pl
Family History Library;
      http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
      (search by place name to see if your ancestral town has been
       microfilmed)
Jewish Records Indexing Project–Poland: http://www.jri-poland.org
JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org (many related sites available here)
Galicia Jewish Museum: http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
Galicia Special Interest Group: http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/
Embassy of Poland: http://www.polandembassy.org/
Polish Roots: The Polish Genealogy Source. http://www.polishroots.org/
The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation – Poland: Jewish Genealogy Project         http://www.jewish.org.pl/english/foundati/Lauder1.html
        Yale Reisner, director; e-mail: laudergen@jewish.org.pl
Historical Sites of Jewish Warsaw
        http://jewish.sites.warszawa.um.gov.pl/
Jewish Web Index: http://jewishwebindex.com
Judaica Foundation: Center for Jewish Culture: http://www.judaica.pl/


Note: Some entries in the database relate to documents within the current borders of Poland that have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in various repositories in Germany including:
•	National Archive (Bundesarchive) in Koblenz
•	City Archive (Stadtarchiv) in Augsburg
•	Central Archive for Genealogy (Zentralstelle fuer Genealogie) in Leipzig
•	State Archive (Geheimes Staatsarchive) in Berlin
	For contact information regarding archives in Germany, see: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/index.shtml http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Note: Lists of birth, marriage and death registers (vital records) and census records preserved in the Polish State Archives are being updated on a yearly basis by the employees of the Archives. The updated information is being transmitted to the Routes to Roots Foundation pursuant to written Agreement and incorporated into the database.

Note: Among the documents included in the database, are the following entries:
•	Marriage Supplements: Includes attachments to marriage applications and can include birth/death certificates and marriage announcements/banns.
•	Birth/Marriage Announcements: Reconstructed documents on the basis of witness evidence when the original documents no longer exist (often registered long after the event).

* Note: Public access to USC documents is regulated by law, which prohibits on-site access and research by individuals looking for multiple records for genealogical purposes. It is not uncommon to find a sympathetic clerk in a local USC office who will cooperate in varying degrees in order to accommodate the visitor during an on-site visit. However, this is a courtesy response and not available upon demand. It is possible to write to the Polish Consulate in your country and request a search for a very few specific vital records. This is a time-consuming process; it may take months to receive a response. If the search is successful, a letter will be sent to the requestor advising him/her to forward a sum of money to the consulate’s office; in return, a certified extract of the document (on a typed form) will be sent out by mail. To locate the Polish Embassy/Consulate in your country, see http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/poland.htm None of the documents in any USC office have been microfilmed and there are no plans to do so (due to privacy restrictions relating to twentieth century records). In the U.S., contact: http://www.pan.net/konsulat/ (Los Angeles) http://www.polandconsulateny.com (New York) http://www.polandembassy.org/ (Washington DC)

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