Place locating tools

Poland and its borders

Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth

• https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podzia%C5%82_administracyjny_I_Rzeczypospolitej (Polish version with more details)

Territorial evolution of Poland 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Poland 

• Understanding Europe's changing borders

• Partitions

• Poland’s Territorial Changes 1635-Present -Timeline map

• Poland’s Shapeshifting & Disappearing Borders – (short) Video Explainer

Current administrative division of Poland, maps and list of locations

• • Administrative division http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podzia%C5%82_administracyjny_Polski

  • Maps

    • http://ksng.gugik.gov.pl/pliki/mapa_administracyjna_polski_2015.png

    • http://ksng.gugik.gov.pl/pliki/mapa_administracyjna_polski_2015.pdf

  • List of locations

    • http://ksng.gugik.gov.pl/pliki/urzedowy_wykaz_nazw_miejscowosci_2013.pdf 

    • http://ksng.gugik.gov.pl/pliki/mapa_administracyjna_polski_500-index.pdf 

      • map - http://ksng.gugik.gov.pl/pliki/mapa_administracyjna_polski_500.png  

Gazetteers, place and parish locating tools

General

• Current Latin Dioceses in Poland

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_Poland 

• Evangelical parishes 

  • http://old.luteranie.pl/www/biblioteka/hist-parafie.htm

  • Kalisz Diocese (in German)

  • Schematismus der evangelischen Kirche Augsb. und Helvet. Bekenntnisses in den im österr. Reichsrathe vertretenen Königreichen und Ländern (includes parishes located in Austrian partition)

  • https://www.sggee.org/deutsch/research_ger/parishes_ger/church_parishes_ger/LutheransInRusPoland_ger.html 

  • http://holland.org.pl/

• Genepedia - Projects Roman Catholic Parishes

• Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland: http://dir.icm.edu.pl/Slownik_geograficzny/ 

  • Glossary of some difficult terms encountered in the above dictionary by William F. Hoffman (PGSA)

  • Translation and information by Daniel M. Schlyter PGSA

  • PolishRoots guide and glossary 

  • Slownik Geograficzny Translations by Al Wierzba 

• Global gazetter - Poland

• Tabella of cities, villages, settlements of the Kingdom of Poland (1827)

  • part 1: A-Ł  

  • part 2: M-Z 

  • table's header translation

• Index of the Kingdom of Poland (1877):

  • part 1: A-N https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/11404/edition/10794/content

  • part 2: O-Z https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/11653/edition/10795/content   

  • table's header translation 

  • how to use it

• Index of urban and rural municipalities of the Republic of Poland 1918-1939 https://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/publication/2596/edition/2407/content?ref=desc 

• Index of locations in the Republic of Poland (1933) with corresponding governmental agencies and offices and parishes: http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786&from=publication 

  • table's header translation

• Jewish Gen https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp 

• Mayers Orts-und Verkehrs:  Lexicon des DeutschenReichs https://www.meyersgaz.org/ 

• Monuments of Poland

• Parish catalog prepared by genealodzy.pl

• http://www.plebanie.pl/

• Roman Catholic parish locators (current list): 

  • http://www.katolik.pl/parafie/ 

  • https://schematyzm.katolicki.pl/ 

  • churches in Poland wiki

  • churches in Belarus

  • churches in Belarus wiki (PL, use chrome to translate)

• The structure of the Roman Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland, with a map of dioceses and an appendix of a list of Polish parishes and Polish clergy in the United States of North America, compiled by Zygmunt Adam Czernicki, first edition (as per 1st January 1925)

• Thom's Poland LDS FHC locality search helper

Regional

List of German names of municipalities and settlements in the Czech Republic

• https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_n%C4%9Bmeck%C3%BDch_n%C3%A1zv%C5%AF_obc%C3%AD_a_osad_v_%C4%8Cesku 

Great Poland, Pomerania and Silesia area:

• German names of Polish locations 

• 1949 Change of German location names to Polish names

• Kartenmeister database kartenmeister.com 

  • how to use Kartenmeister

• Kingdom of Prussia - Parish vs Civil Registry office directory

  • Province of Poznan: 

    • partially transcribed http://www.unsere-ahnen.de/polen/provinz_posen/ 

    • digital 1885 edition 

    • digital 1905 edition

    • digital 1908 edition

  • Province of Silesia

    • digital 1885 edition

  • Pomerania

    • http://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=7545 

    • https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE8208326  

    • https://pbc.gda.pl/Content/50166/Wilczewski_5.pdf

• Gniezno Archdiocese parishes http://wtg-gniazdo.org/pliki/opracowania/Parafie_Archidiecezji_Gnieznienskiej.pdf 

• Kalisz Diocese parishes http://wtg-gniazdo.org/pliki/opracowania/Parafie_Diecezji_Kaliskiej.pdf 

• Kalisz and Włocławek Diocese parishes 1911 http://dlibra.kul.pl/Content/36769/34373%20Cat%201911%20szary_0002.pdf 

• East and West Prussia

  • Królewiec, Gusiew, Olsztyn and West Prussia

  • East Prussia Catholic Parishes

  • Names of places in the former East Prussia - County Mrągowo

• West Prussia town directory

• List of locations of Posen and Silesia regions (Polish-German)

• List of places and Polish landed gentry West Prussia

  • List of places and Polish landed gentry - Prussia

  • List of places and Polish landed gentry - Pomerania

• Alphabetical list of all landed estates of Grand Duchy of Posen (Wykaz alfabetyczny wszystkich posiadłości ziemskich w W. Księstwie Poznańskiem)

Galicia

• Dictionary of Wester Lesser Poland 1772-1815 http://www.gospodarka-galicji.pl/slownik-miejscowosci/ 

• (check fond 144) http://bazy.oss.wroc.pl/kzc/view_fond.php 

• Index of locations (1914) http://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=4909&from=publication  

• index of governmental institutions https://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/publication/5251/edition/4994 

• locations database https://www.geshergalicia.org/galician-town-locator/ 

• geo-statistical description of locations in XVI century (https://repozytorium.biblos.pk.edu.pl/redo/resources/39656/file/scans/DEFAULT/OCR_rezultaty/100000299810_A_v1_200dpi_q60.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1ykQFxiXBfi15kSBqF_t_-O_wBfZcxm1yMZar9b3LpA7dUrgViEG3DXzw

• Lwów (Lviv) Archdiocese parish directory: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/pl/record/0940432/_nnnqcT7.html?q=what%3A   

• The Imperial Gazetteer 

• Jewish Religious Community in Galicia www.agad.gov.pl/genealogia/michalewicz.html 

• Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeryia with Great Kraków Principality

  • 1870

  • 1879

  • 1882

"Kresy"

• Eastern Borderlands (Kresy) places database: http://www.kami.net.pl/kresy/ 

• Mińsk Diocese http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=10&sub=194 

• Volhynia 

  • http://wolyn.freehost.pl/ 

  • https://wolhynien.de/geography/orte.htm 

  • http://wiki.wolhynien.net/index.php/Ortslisten 

• Vilnius Diocese (in Polish) in 1784 http://pbc.biaman.pl/Content/13702/t.%201.%20dekanat%20Bras%C5%82aw%20K.%20Jodczyk.pdf 

• Lithuanian and Belarus Guide http://pbc.biaman.pl/Content/14001/ks9989.pdf

Lublin Diocese and Siedlce Governorate 

• parish locator http://pomoce.lubgens.eu/viewpage.php?page_id=5 

• Settlements which disappeared or changed names of the historical Lublin province

Łucko-Żytomierska Diocese

• • list of parishes

Mazowsze 

• Płock Archdiocese http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=10&sub=189 

• List of places in Radom Governorate https://bc.radom.pl/dlibra/publication/1925/edition/1884/content 

Przemyśl Diocese 

• • Catholic 

    • http://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/publication?id=12654&from=&dirids=1&tab=1&lp=9&QI= 

    • http://dlibra.kul.pl/Content/30162/33251__Zych--Slawomir--1973_0000.pdf

  • Greek Catholic:

    •  http://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/publication?id=11460&from=&dirids=1&tab=1&lp=8&QI= 

    • http://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12227&from=&dirids=1&ver_id=&lp=6&QI= 

Silesia 

• list of Church registers Kirchenbucher Schlesiens 1902 

Suwałki area

• http://gen.wooyd.org/suwalki/?fbclid=IwAR2OnMx_z2RCWYmMOq0JcvarCgYinlk1rugIsDqcF_Fsjv_f7virAwn0PPE 

• http://web.archive.org/web/20190304052348/linia-polnocna.internetdsl.pl/SGKP/index.html

Vilnius

• Deaneries and parishes in the Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius in 1939

• Diocese 1744 

Collection of various general maps

• mapa.szukacz.pl/ 

• maps.google.com 

• targeo.pl

• http://english.mapywig.org/news.php 

• http://maps4u.lt/en/maps.php?cat=27 

• http://easteurotopo.org/ 

• http://starenowemapy.pl/ 

• http://igrek.amzp.pl/ and

• http://igrek.amzp.pl/maplist.php?cat=polgeneral&listsort=sortoption1&listtype=mapywig&fbclid=IwAR1fJ58bXT7hjlW1cSXscJEXeAJHywp02MDWrT3CBbAO9cXAAlPE28X2dk8 

• https://www.sggee.org/research/village_maps.html 

• borders change http://lik.info.pl/granicetest.php?fbclid=IwAR06MJvNpDIFtXlUVUw5_WeWMMIuArFLmCUjZWv6hz-9okkNEClXx4IpHSM 

• The Illustrated Geographic Atlas of the Kingdom of Poland  https://zbc.uz.zgora.pl/dlibra/publication/15041/edition/14646/content?ref=desc and version to download (http://igrek.amzp.pl/appendix_cat.php?idapp=1759936&idcat=BAZAKP1907

• Juliusz Colberg 1776-1831 Atlas https://polona.pl/item/atlas-krolestwa-polskiego-atlas-du-royaume-de-pologne,NDcwMDgwNjE/11/#info:metadata

• David Rumsey map collection https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/where/Poland/?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort

• Karte der Deutschen Siedlungen in Mittelpolen https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/show-content/publication/edition/31639?id=31639

Collection of regional related maps

• Evangelical Lutheran maps https://www.sggee.org/research/SGGEEMaps.html 

• Galicia 

  • https://maps.geshergalicia.org/ 

  • https://mapire.eu/en/ 

  • https://mapire.eu/en/browse/cadastral/ 

  • https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-maps-of-galicia-1775-1918/ 

  • https://sites.ualberta.ca/~ukrville/Family_History_Portal/district/villages/bukgal.htm 

  • Church map of Eastern Galicia http://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=161861&from=pubindex&dirids=12&lp=1441&fbclid=IwAR1IYvqKl0cCEk_JIJU4_GSKWGpBNaVSiMeBWaIGxGxntD8JIws1tei75e4 

  • Tarnów Diocese https://polona.pl/item/mapa-diecezji-tarnowskiej,NzQxNjE3ODA/0/#info:metadata 

• Pomerania

  • Gdańsk Pomerania http://www.mapy.eksploracja.pl/news.php 

• Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth related maps 862 - 1795 

  • http://www.lithuanianmaps.com/MapsHistoricalUpTo1795.html?fbclid=IwAR1Q_ohj3X8VCnXOxBZ4HbV5xGMEJMtKrO7hUrmDiPDAmwEPIQe9vrm0YBA 

  • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1831

• Ukraine

  • http://www.maps-of-europe.net/maps-of-ukraine/ 

  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/03/09/maps-how-ukraine-became-ukraine/ 

• Western Pomerania maps http://mapy.amzp.pl/maps.shtml 

City maps and streets directories

• Old maps of various Polish cities https://stareplanymiast.pl/

• Gdańsk 

  • maps

  • streets

• Grudziądz

  • map

  • history of city streets' name (starting page 67)

• Królewiec (Königsberg) streets 1931

• Lviv (Lwów) map with pre-WWII street names

• Warsaw cadastral map 1852

• Wrocław (Breslau) map

Parish related maps

• Roman Catholic parish maps locator in Poland: 

  • http://colaska.pl/ 

  • http://mapy.lubgens.eu/polska.html 

  • Map of the Parish Network of the Commonwealth in 1772 A.D http://mapy.lubgens.eu/1772.html 

• Borderlands parishes in 1939 http://mapy.lubgens.eu/kresy39.html 

• Other faith parish map locator in Poland:

  • http://mapy.lubgens.eu/polska2.html 

Survey Maps from 1910-14 of a large part of Europe 

• http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm