Thanks for all your work on this! I tried to check your list of towns and I would like records from the Przeciszow and Oswiecim area in Malopolskie. Am I out of luck this time around as I could not find them? I am assuming that area is in the Krakow archives.
I checked for Kantreck, which is Łoźnica now and it shows that there are 6 records on film, but there is not any place to click to view them, does that mean they are not available yet?
Thanks for your question. I believe the answer may be it is not actually there. But for me to explore your situation more fully, I would need the name of the Archive or the Archive’s #. If you are the one I am thinking, I did not see that in the NAC’s szukaczwarchiwum.pl database. I went to Suwalki (#63) and when I did the next archive link it went to #72, meaning that all other archives between 63 and 72 are not loaded yet.
I hope that helps you. Please refer to the blog article on Polish Archives & their respective numbers.
How can I find out what regional archive my town is located in?
Hi Carrie! Welcome to the blog.
Your question is an excellent one. Let me answer your question in today’s timeframe first and then we’ll backup in time for a more complete answer.
Wojewodztwo (like a state/province), broken down into Powiaty (like a county), then Gminy (like a district/borough/township).
Can you locate your village/town/city on a map? Then you’re probably good. If not, then you need a Gazetteer. A gazetteer is like a dictionary for placenames. You look up your village and then you look across the page (usually columnar) & find parish, gmina, powiat, & wojewodztwo.
From those you should be able to determine your archive. Although the archives were created under a prior admin hierarchy so some confusion can occur.
Russian-Poland, Austrian-Poland(often seen as Galicia) & Prussian-Poland (aka German-Poland).
So Gazetteers specialize in one of the three partitions until after WWI. Then a Gazetteer will show all of Poland.
If you give me a specific name I can usually help. There are also Facebook Polish genealogy groups that can quickly help you.
Take care that many places have identical names. US Censuses usually indicate what partition your ancestor was from.