Szukaj w Archiwach specialist search locates creators and registers. Guidance uses locality, denomination and dates without personal names. Turn a family lead into place, event and interval before choosing a volume.
The method, step by step
- Transcribe place exactly from a starting record. Keep documented variants with sources. Resolve uncertainty before selecting records: similarly named places may lead to different holdings. A country in a migration story alone does not identify a parish.
- Choose locality, known denomination and period. Examine the proposed parish, community or office. Residence municipality does not prove the record’s creator. Keep separate justified leads for multiple possible creators; do not automatically choose the first result.
- Read unit title and dates before images. Distinguish a located collection, identified volume and record read. Scan filters indicate remote availability; descriptions without images still support requests. Record holder, reference and exact year without confusing no digitisation with no record.
- If the volume has an index note its pointer and read the full record. Transcribe names, date, place and explicit relationships; compare starting evidence. Separate reference, record number, page and image. Accept a same-name match only with multiple agreements; log conflicts and next checks.
Record in your research log
- Original place and identification
- known or uncertain denomination
- creator
- event
- dates
- collection and unit
- scans
- record and image numbers
- identity comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Why does Polish vital-record search ask for a locality?
Szukaj w Archiwach specialist search selects parishes, communities and offices by place, denomination and dates. It is not a personal-name index. After selecting a register consult images and its internal index where available.
Sources & references
- Archiwa Państwowe — Wyszukiwarka akt metrykalnych ↗ (Resource review date : )
- Archiwa Państwowe — Szukaj w Archiwach ↗ (Resource review date : )