So you need to find out the town name where the Catholic, Lutheran, Greek Catholic, or Jewish synagogue your ancestor attended would have been. Your town may not have its own parish church because of its small size. Once you know the town where your ancestors lived, there are some important details you need to find to get into the records. Town Details Needed for Finding Records: If you do not know your ancestors' town, follow the advice in the Wiki article Poland Locating Town of Origin to search a variety of records that might provide that information.Efforts to collect, preserve, and publish records online are generally carried out at a diocese or voivodeship level, or by archive jurisdiction level.
Duplicates were sometimes sent to higher jurisdictions such as a diocese or voivodeship (province).
Civil registration (government birth, marriage, and death records) and church records (christenings/baptisms, marriages, and burials) were kept at the local level. Genealogical records are organized by geographical locality.
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