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Your family left Poland. Their story can bring you back.

Answer three quick questions to see which path may be worth investigating — Karta Polaka, citizenship confirmation, or family research — then get a plan for the records to check.

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Independent guidance for Polish descendants — not affiliated with the Polish government.

Archival portrait of a Polish ancestor couple — Przodkowie · ancestors

Bundle of historic Polish family documents — Family documents

31hand-verified archives & indexes

51guided interview coaching questions

28in-depth guides in three languages

3languages — EN, RU, UK

The records that hold your family's story

Parish registers Birth, marriage & death acts Military muster lists Ship manifests Consular records Census lists Cemetery inscriptions Land & court records Population registers

Why this site exists

One family, many names — a history quietly disappearing

This site began with a real research problem: an ancestor recorded under three different names across three empires. The founder story walks through the exact records that put the family back together — the same method the Research Hub teaches.

StryszawaA family village in the foothills, recorded under shifting borders
1905–1909The records that survive — and the gaps that don't
1911Minneapolis: a new country, a new spelling, same family
TodayThree records, one life — and a method you can reuse

Read the family story behind KartaPolaka

Archival family portrait — The story starts with people, not paperwork.

Your family story may point to more than one path

Before collecting documents, understand which route your evidence may support. The 60-second check maps you to one of the three below.

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 eligibility

Historical map of the partitions of Poland

Possible Polish citizenship

If 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 branch

Close-up of a historic Polish birth record

Family research

Trace names, places, parishes, migrations, and surviving records — even when an application is not yet the immediate goal.

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Turn 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.

Build Your Research Plan See Required Documents

Close view of a historic Polish record used in family research

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.

01Check eligibility

02Gather documents

03Plan the application

04Find your consulate

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A new site — so here is the proof instead of promises

No invented success rates, no stock-photo testimonials. Three things you can actually verify:

Case Study 001 — our own family. The method on this site was built on the hardest case we had: an ancestor recorded under three different names across three empires. Every step — the parish, the archive, the border changes — is documented in the founder's story.

Built on the real archives. Every guide cites the institutions that actually hold the records:

Independent, and honest about it. Not affiliated with any government or consulate. Nothing here promises an outcome — we explain requirements, show the records, and help you prepare truthfully.

When the first real community stories arrive — via the moderated Community wall and early course members — they replace these cards one at a time. Until then, everything above is verifiable. That's the point.

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