Poland / Polska » Societies & Groups

Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group (CRARG)

Research to find, type, and index Holocaust survivor lists and death lists from around Poland (about 50,000 records so far). Research to find, type, and index lists of Jewish residents of Czestochowa, Radomsko, and a growing list of nearby towns (about 200,000 records so far). Research in Poland, the group is based in Springfield, Ohio.

East European Genealogical Society

Winnipeg, Canada.

Federation of East European Family History Societies - FEEFHS

Institute of National Remembrance: Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation

Poland. Preserving the memory of the losses suffered by the Polish Nation as the result of World War 2 and the post-war period.

Jewish Family History Foundation

Works to preserve, acquire, translate and disseminate Jewish records from the archives and other repositories in eastern Europe. The major ongoing project is putting the 18th Century censuses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania/Kingdom of Poland into an online database. Translating early 19th Century Russian revision lists on which Jewish families first had surnames, to serve as bridge records to the 18th Century lists where families did not have them. Provides support to family history researchers who establish groups to study the history of their ancestral towns and family origins.

Kashubian Association of North America

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kielce-Radom SIG

Jewish genealogy special interest group researching the southern Russian Polish regions of the Kielce and Radom gubernias.

Kindertransport Association

Organization of child holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

Polish Falcons

A fraternal benefits society.

Polish Genealogical Society of America

Chicago, Illinois.

Polish Genealogical Society of California - PGSCA

Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast

Includes searchable database of over 100,000 names transcribed from Polish (and some non-Polish) cemeteries from across New England and the Northeast U.S.

Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts

Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan

Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota

Polish Genealogical Society of New York State

Polish Genealogical Society of Texas

Organized in 1982 to promote genealogical research among individuals of Polish heritage. Goals of the society are to unite Polish researchers, share information, publish Texas research for previously undocumented and unexplored areas, educate others on Polish-Texan history, sponsor trips to Polish Settlements in Texas, sponsor workshops on historical and genealogical topics relevant to Poles in Texas.

Polskiego Towarzystwa Genealogicznego / Polish Genealogical Society

Silesian Genealogical Society

Wroclaw.

Society of German Genealogy in Eastern Europe

Devoted to the study of those people with German ancestry (generally of the Lutheran, Baptist, or Catholic faiths) who lived in present-day Poland (including those lands known previously as West and East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania), and also those people who lived in the western part of present-day Ukraine, in the old pre-World War II province of Volhynia (generally from the city of Kiev on the east to the present-day Polish border on the west, and from the city of Zhitomir on the south to the city of Kowel on the north).