Church / parish records

James · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject: Church / parish records

I have been researching my family for many years now, and 99 % of my searching has been through the Polish State Archives.
I use to mail a hand written letter to an archive asking them to research for me, and for the last couple of years I've been able to e-mail an archive with a request.

Once a friend did some research for me, in Poland, at a church / parish archive, and found some records of my family for me.

Could someone enlighten me ?

* Do the state archives and church / parish archives have the same information on their records ?
example; a marriage record from a state archive would have the exact information as the marriage record from the parish archive.

* Do church / parish archives perform records research through requests by letter or email correspondence ?
* Do church / parish archives only perform archive research with the person being present at the archive location ?
* Can a person go to a church / parish archive and research on their own ?

Dziekuje bardzo for any help,

James

Zenon · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:58 am Post subject:

Hi James,

smithcjes · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 8

You can also research many of these parish records at your local LDS Family History Library by ordering the film (cost $6.00 for 30 days) from Salt Lake. You can make printed copies or copy to a thumb drive. Church records are in Latin.