Karta Polaka
For qualifying descendants who can document Polish nationality or community involvement and demonstrate a living connection to Polish language and culture.
Check Karta Polaka eligibilityTrace your Polish roots. Find your path forward.
Understand what your family history may mean, find the records that support it, and move from ancestry research to a confident application.
Independent guidance for Polish descendants — not affiliated with the Polish government.
Your family story may point to more than one path
Before collecting documents, understand which route your evidence may support.
Possible Polish citizenship
If Polish citizenship passed through each generation of your family, you may need to confirm an existing status rather than apply for a Karta Polaka.
Check the citizenship branchFamily research
Trace names, places, parishes, migrations, and surviving records even when an application is not yet the immediate goal.
Open the Research HubTurn fragments into a research plan
Begin with what your family already knows, then work outward toward records and archives.
Start with relatives
Capture names, dates, places, spellings, and family stories.
Identify the place
Connect historical villages and border changes to the right archive or parish.
Search the records
Use civil, church, immigration, military, cemetery, and archive sources.
Track the evidence
Save relatives, document notes, and source links in one private workspace.
From family evidence to a prepared application
Research is only useful when you can understand what a record shows, how it connects one generation to the next, and what your next step should be.
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