About PolandGenWeb

The PolandGenWeb Project was created to help you, the genealogical researcher, to uncover your Polish ancestry.  Part of the WorldGenWeb Project, the website provides visitors with research tutorials, maps (historic and present day), town locators and town lists, translation aids, archives addresses, and much more.  The highlight of PolandGenWeb are the Transcribed Records.  Volunteers have transcribed records and donated them to the project to be displayed online.  These records include birth, marriage, and death records filmed by the LDS as well as tombstone inscriptions from Polish cemeteries located in Poland and elsewhere.  Transcribed passenger manifest pages containing Polish immigrants are also available to view on the site.

There are 160 pages designed to assist you in uprooting your family tree.  In addition, each Polish province has its own website devoted to researching your ancestors specifically within those boundaries and can be accessed from the PolandGenWeb home page.  There is no fee to view the online records and resources, and you will never have to register to use this website, as some other genealogy website require.  Whether you're new to researching your Polish roots or have years of experience, PolandGenWeb is a resource you will use over and over again.

Does this site perform research?
The answer is NO.  PolandGenWeb cannot tell you who your ancestors were, where your ancestors may have come from in Poland, or who lives in Poland with your surname.  We simply do not have this information.  We are in essence a supplier of information on how YOU can find your Polish roots.  The coordinator of this site lives in the United States, and has no better means of obtaining information on your Polish ancestors than you do.