Helpful Resources
During the search for my family I have recieved help from leading historians and genealogists and have accessed records through numerous sources.
I have compiled a list most helpful to me, to aid you in your own family research
Family Tree Websites
Ancestry.co.uk: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
Geneanet: https://en.geneanet.org/
Genes Reunited: https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/
Family Tree DNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/
My Heritage: https://www.myheritage.com/
Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/
DNA Weekly: https://www.dnaweekly.com/
Jewish Ancestry Records
JewishGen The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy: https://www.jewishgen.org/
Jewish Records Indexing- Poland: https://jri-poland.org/
The Shoah Foundation: http://sfi.usc.edu/
Routes to Roots Foundation
A Genealogical and Family History guide
to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe
https://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml
Gesher Galicia, The Bridge to Galicia ‘Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine’.
https://www.geshergalicia.org/
Arolsen Archives
International Centre on Nazi Persecution
Human losses and victims of repression under German occupation 1939-1945
International Tracing Service
https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/partners/international-tracing-service-its
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yad Vashem (International Database of Shoah Victims Names)
The Scottish Jewish Archives
Austrian Archives
GenTeam is and will always be free of charge!
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After registration you may use these databases free of charge
Other Records
The British Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/find-missing-family
The Royal Courts of Justice (Probate Records)
https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/royal-courts-of-justice
General Register Office UK (GRO)
https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate
London Metropolitan Archives
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/history-and-heritage/london-metropolitan-archives
Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK), London
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
20 Princes Gate, LONDON, SW7
Phone: 0044 (0) 20 7589 9249
Ministry of Defence (Polish Section)
For MOD Polish records, please contact:
Margaret Goddard or Barbara Kroll
APC Polish Enquiries
Building 60
RAF Northolt,
West End Road
Ruislip,
Middlesex HA4 6NG
Phone: 0044 (0) 208 833 8603
Email: margaret.goddard135@mod.uk
Polish Forces in Britain (with a focus on Scotland)
http://www.polishforcesinbritain.info/
Polonica and the Polish Armed Forces in Scotland
http://www.ostrycharz.free-online.co.uk/
Polish Combatants Memorial
https://polishcombatantsmemorial.org.uk/
SPK: Polish Ex-Combatants Memorial Association in Great Britain Trust Fund
http://www.spk-wb.com/broszury/ex-combatants-association-in-great-britain-1946-2003/
AGAD- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
Central Archives of Historical Records
Długa 7 Street, PL 00-263 Warsaw
phone (+ 48) (22) 831-54-91
e-mail: sekretariat@agad.gov.pl
Polish Military Archives
Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe
ul. Czerwonych Beretów bl. 124
00-910 WARSZAWA
http://www.caw.wp.mil.pl
Email: caw@wp.mil.pl
Informacja Archiwalna tel. (22) 681-45-84
Email: informacja.caw@wp.mil.pl
Polish Ancestors (The Polish genealogy team who discovered many records for me)
https://www.polishancestors.com/
Polish Roots (Polish Genealogy Records)
Kresy Siberia Museum
(An excellent website documenting Poles deported and enslaved in Siberia
with many links to resources)
https://kresy-siberia.org/museum/
Polin Museum, Warsaw
Museum of the history of Polish Jews