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Locating place of origin
A very good way to pinpoint a town within Poland is a ShtetlSeeker search. It's a site which matches the place name you provide to a huge database of towns ...
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PolishRoots: Immigration & Ships
Immigration & Ships. Primer on Immigration, Emigration and Associated Subjects .... but at least all ships by then had physicians on staff, and conditions ...
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Brief history of Poland
During those so-called Partitions of Poland, Prussia acquired the western regions of Poland, esp. those, which were later renamed to West Prussia (formerly ...
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Genealogy & Poland - a guide
A guide for researching your family's history dating back to different times and places in contemporary Poland.
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The Province of Posen (Poznan)
The 19th century Prussian province of Posen was called Wielkopolska until 1793, literally "Greater Poland". This region was the historical center of origin ...
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Galicia
The map shows the territory of Galicia before WWI. The pink line is the post-WWII border between Poland and Ukraine. For the present Ukrainian part, ...
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Boundary changes
This is the map depicting the most important boundary changes in Poland since 1815. ... into Poland in 1938, some minor modifications in Tatra or Masuria, ...
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Surnames
What does my surname mean? Although I am unable to answer all the etymological questions concerning Polish surnames, or give any simple way of doing it, ...
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Silesia
... part of Silesia (Upper Silesia) the Polish language was predominant. ... The map shows the territory of Silesia at the beginning of the 20th century. ...
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Surnames
What does my surname mean? Although I am unable to answer all the etymological questions concerning Polish surnames, or give any simple way of doing it, ...
