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ALearn about Poland vital records.
- Overview: Learn about Polish civil registration, including regions of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
FS—Poland Civil Registration - Birth: Learn how to read Polish birth records.
FS—Polish Birth Records - 2016 - Marriage: Learn how to read Polish marriage records.
FS—Polish Marriage Records - 2016
How to Get Information from a Polish Marriage Certificate—8:31 - 2015
- Learn about the Poznan Project for marriage records.
FS—Poznan Project - 2016 - Death: Learn how to read Polish death records.
FS—Polish Death Records - 2016
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for vital records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
Ilse Weber died in Germany in World War II. Use the "MH: Auschwitz Death Certificates, 1942-1944" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- When was Ilse Weber born?
- When did she die?
- Where was she from?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Ilse Weber" as the first name and "Ilse Weber" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the document icon for Ilse Weber.
- Read the information in the center column.
- Ilse was born on 20 Dec 1920.
- She died on 21 Dec 1943.
- She was from Friedberg, Germany.
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
QUIKLinks
- MH: Auschwitz Death Certificates, 1941-1943
- AC: Eastern Prussian Provinces, Germany [Poland], Selected Civil Vitals, 1874-1945 (in German)
- AC: Kraków, Poland, ID Card Applications for Jews During WWII, 1940-1941 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Kraków, Poland, Police Registration Cards for Jews and Poles, 1940-1941 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Łódź, Poland, Vital Records of Jews in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Poland, Łódż Ghetto ID Card Registrations, 1939-1944 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Poland, Łódź Ghetto Inhabitant Lists, 1939-1944 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Poland, Łódź Ghetto Register Books, 1939-1944 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Poland, Łódź Ghetto Transportation Lists, 1939-1944 (USHMM) (in German)
- AC: Web: Pomerania, Poland, Baptism Index, 1593-1911
- AC: Web: Pomerania, Poland, Marriage Index, 1597-1911
- AC: Web: Pomerania, Poland, Death Index, 1637-1962
BLearn about Poland census records.
- Learn about Poland census records in this FamilySearch Wiki article.
FS—Wiki: Poland Census Records - Read this article to learn about five sources for Polish census records.
5 Places Online to Find Polish Census Records - 2016
Poland Provinces
| Łódź | Lower Silesian | Lublin |
| Lubusz | Masovian | Opole |
| Podlaskie | Pomeranian | Silesian |
| Subcarpathian | Świętokrzyskie | Warmian-Masurian |
| Western Pomeranian |