ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:30 am
Post subject: Polish States Archives - your questions and experience
Should you have any specific questions about conducting research in State Archives in Poland? Do you want to share your knowledge in this matter? Here is the place for you to do it.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
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Location: PolandBack to top |
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
Replies: 1515
Location: PolandBack to top |
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:23 am
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Unfortunately, as we have learned the hard way together with one of our Forum members, not all of the Polish State Archives branches decreased the prices of xerox or digital copies of records.
From our experience and from other Polish genealogical forum (genpol.com) the status of price lists for today (Feb 25, 2008) in Polish State Archives is as follows:
1. Branches which decreased their price lists:
- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
- State Archives in Plock
- Siedlce
- Rzeszow
- Bialystok
- Wroclaw
- Bydgoszcz
- Grodzisk
- Pultusk
- Katowice (branch Raciborz)
- Piotrkow
- Konin
- Lodz
- Koszalin
- Lublin
- Warsaw
- Zamosc
- Czestochowa
- Inowroclaw
- Konin
2. Branches which did not decrease their price lists:
- Wloclawek
Additionally, some of the branches have special rates for copies ordered for genealogical research or by foreigners. It resembles the communism era when the prices of many goods and services were different for Polish citizens and for people coming to Poland from "other currency territory"...
Hopefully, in time they clear the rules and they will be uniform in the whole Poland.
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JacekRoszakKonin
Joined: 06 May 2010
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:08 am
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The price for 1 scan, copy or picture is 4 zloty + a cd cost  2 zloty if you want a copy or picture on cd.
I live in Konin, so if someone needs a copy from out archives just mail me - [email protected].
In out Archives there are records from 1800 to 1910. Records from 1720 are in Wloclawek.
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BobKPO Top Contributor
Joined: 11 Nov 2008
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Location: Portland, Oregon USABack to top |
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:59 pm
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| JacekRoszakKonin wrote: | The price for 1 scan, copy or picture is 4 zloty + a cd cost 2 zloty if you want a copy or picture on cd.
I live in Konin, so if someone needs a copy from out archives just mail me - [email protected].
In out Archives there are records from 1800 to 1910. Records from 1720 are in Wloclawek. |
Does each archive keep ONLY what is in their own area? Or do they all share the same information?
My mother was born in Lida, which is now in Belarus. Would the Polish archives have information from
the time that area was part of Poland?
With Polish zloty at about 32.5 cents, that sounds like a bargain.
Bob K.
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JacekRoszakKonin
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:53 pm
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No, archives keep records only from their area. Only parishes in approximatly 50 to 100 km radius.
I'm not sure, but it seems that all the records are in archives in Belarus. You won't find anything in poland, but there are many people that can help you if you only ask. I don't know how good is your polish but I found some websites that can be useful. Also there is a possibility thet you can send a letter or e-mail to the archive and ask them to do a search for you. If my memory serves, the cost is 80 zlotych per hour of their time.
The whole process looks like that:
You call them (but there is a possibility that no one will speak english ) or you can write to them - e-mail or letter.
You have to give them as much information as possible - year, name, surename of person that you are looking for.
They will search for it and if they found anything, they will write to you and say that they found what you ware asking for. They will send you a price of this search. As I sad befor - about 80 zł per hour. It usually takes about 15 minutes so you would pay 20 zl. You will pay and then they will send you the document. You won't know what it is till you pay.
This is how it's done in poland.
http://genealogia.kresowa.info/index.php
Here is a link to polish portal, wher you can find out a lot about looking for your ancestars in Belarus.
http://archives.gov.by/eng/
This should also help.
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Don
Joined: 13 May 2010
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JacekRoszakKonin
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:44 am
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Not yet  which parish ?
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Don
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:52 am
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| JacekRoszakKonin wrote: | | Not yet which parish ? |
Chodecz Maybe they were telling me about future plans. I need my letters translated to English.
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JacekRoszakKonin
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:55 am
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[email protected] - I will help you with translating
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Don
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 11:55 am
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| don&judy wrote: | | JacekRoszakKonin wrote: | | Not yet which parish ? |
Chodecz Maybe they were telling me about future plans. I need my letters translated to English. |
Thank you for the information
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Don
Joined: 13 May 2010
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 12:02 pm
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Thank you for the offer, but I will have our parish priest translate them for me. Thank you , again.
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:41 pm
Post subject: Polish archives research
Is there someplace that gives detailed instructions on obtaining info from the archives????? Can it be done in English?
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JamesPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 9:32 am
Post subject: Polish State Archives
noolvido,
If you go to the " MENU " box, on the left side of the page :
* place cursor over " Tips & Resources ", a drop down menu appears to the right,
* clik on " Polish State Archives " ,
* clik on " Remote research in Polish State Archives - practical hints " ,
Here you will find info concerning communication with the Polish State Archives. It begins with the process if you are mailing letters, but most communication can be achieved via computers now.
You will also find a list of Polish State Archives and their address'.
Each individual archive has its own web site, and information pertaining to accessing documents, costs, etc...
If a state archive does not have any information pertaining to an individual, it could be that the info is at a church archive, in which case that is a whole different procedure, usually requiring a personal visit.
As for translations, there are several resources available to you. A gentleman here at Polish Origins, has offered to do some translations. I usually use Google Language Tool ( copy & paste ) it's very simple, there are also several translation sites on-line. I've also had a friend translate for me.
I hope that this is helpful.
James
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:11 pm
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http://www.halgal.com/archivesineurope.html has guidance for the archives, or Praziad.
The site also has guidance ( http://www.halgal.com/gemeindelexikon.html ) for finding the parishes of the town where relatives lived via the "Gazetteer of the Crown Lands and Territories Represented in the Imperial Council, Volume 12: Galizien (Galicia) Vienna, 1907" which is posted on the LDS site.
There are historical maps and other useful links: http://www.halgal.com/vitalrecords.html
I'm still learning and exploring, but others of you may find these ideas helpful. It's more than just the Galicia area, with research ideas and techniques that include all of Poland and the Ukraine. Have fun!
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In January 2008 Polish State Archives in the whole country decreased cost of reproduction of records (either from books and from microfilms) from 14-20 Polish zloty to 2-4 Polish zloty 
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