Poland’s public archives portal provides descriptions and digitised records. Its specialist vital-record search uses locality, denomination and dates to choose creating parishes, communities or offices.
Visit the official resource ↗Coverage and access
- Resource type
- Catalogue and guidance
- Filter by territory
- Poland
- External link review
- — Official page consulted
Collections to search
Categories include textual records, maps, photographs and other materials. A register description may lead to scans; use vital-record search or browse the relevant repository’s collections.
A workflow for this portal
Establish locality, denomination, event and date interval. Select creator, check title and years, then open available images. Seek the volume’s internal index and check the full record before accepting identity.
Access and copies
Portal filters distinguish descriptions and scans. Follow unit and repository guidance for records without images; record collection, unit and image number separately.
Institutional reference page
Archiwa Państwowe — Szukaj w Archiwach ↗The review covers the guidance page, not every image or ordering service.
What you can research here
Name known, place missing: first seek a family or migration record giving the locality. Place-based vital-record search cannot alone resolve a common surname.
Prepare a focused search
Place and denomination known: identify office or parish and check each unit’s years. Record “description found”, “images available” and “record read” separately; they are different results.
Institutional reference page ↗ ·
Official guidance consulted; individual records and full collection coverage have not been verified.
Sources & references
- Archiwa Państwowe — Szukaj w Archiwach ↗ (Resource review date : )
- Archiwa Państwowe — Wyszukiwarka akt metrykalnych ↗ (Resource review date : )