vital records structure

In addition to translation tools please find below general information regarding the structure of vital records which one can work with when looking for ancestors in Poland.

austrian partition Records

Austro-Hungarian Poland Civil Registration

• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Austrian_Poland_Civil_Registration

Birth, marriage and death vital records by Matthew Bielawa

• http://www.halgal.com/vitalrecords.html by Matthew Bielawa

• table headings translation:

  • http://www.halgal.com/vitals_headers.html by Matthew Bielawa

  • http://jri-poland.org/galicia/GalicianVitalRecords_Titles_Nov2002.pdf by Mark Halpern

prussian partition Records

Prussian Poland Civil Registration

• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Prussian_Poland_Civil_Registration

Civil birth record

• http://web.archive.org/web/20190411031443/http://www.lostshoebox.com/tutorial/tutorial-german-civil-birth-record/

• Ancestry guide to read civil registry record

• Birth record - translation to Polish by Magdalena Betlej (English coming soon)

• Birth record phrases

Civil marriage record

• Marriage record (1874-1875) - translation to Polish by Magdalena Betlej

• Marriage record (od 1876) - translation to Polish by Magdalena Betlej (English coming soon!)

• Marriage record phrases

Civil death record

• Death record - translation to Polish by Magdalena Betlej (English coming soon!)

• Death record phrases

polish and latin Records

Latin church records

• how to find basic information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0uur8ov_e9v1tFTWxfEb5X2HSgfNIjU9SfEaV_WbmE/edit?usp=sharing

• table headings translation: http://www.halgal.com/vitals_headers.html by Matthew Bielawa

• status - hierarchy http://kaminscy.pl/index.php/genealogia/hierarchia/?fbclid=IwAR1kIlhEtsL-c_ObBC2KKhXvxWjh8XQ0M0hGttZb-jVxSDi-XsidleZ2KDs

Polish church records - full text

• how to find basic information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lr07-rQXXWd8DoHKlPscIkYiTonu4gvoE424LTrEfuk/edit?usp=sharing

Polish vital records

• Polish Civil Registration records reading aid

• how to read birth record

• how to read marriage record

• how to read death record

Russian partition Records

Birth, marriage and death vital records

• how to translate: https://zofiafederowicz.com/akta-metrykalne/?setlang=en

• how to find basic information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sJmxf-CrIO6YDwen5aTw7mJoh8JF149VNsa_T2wQ7V4/edit?usp=sharing

• table headings translation: http://www.halgal.com/vitals_headers.html by Matthew Bielawa

• Russian Poland Civil Registration Reading Aid

Converting between Julian and Gregorian Calendar

• https://stevemorse.org/jcal/julian.html

Alegat

If you wonder what it is and how it can help you in your research, check out

• C. Michael Eliasz-Solomon blog https://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/alegata-are-genealogy-time-machines-genealogy-polish-churchrecords/