FamilyTreeDNA Polish DNA Project

A group for those who have tested their DNA (Y-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, or autosomal) at FamilyTreeDNA and have Polish ancestry.

DNA Painter

A suite of free and subscription-based tools to help you visualize, understand, and use your DNA test results to answer your genealogy research questions. Includes the popular Shared cM tool, which identifies statistical probabilities of relationships based on the...

Old Fulton New York Postcards

Also known as Fulton History, this site offers over 57 million digital images from newspapers across the U.S. and Canada, with an emphasis on papers from New York State.

NYS Historic Newspapers

Includes nearly 15 million digital newspaper pages from New York papers, including our very own PGSNYS contributions: the Dziennik dla Wszystkich, the Polak w Amerykańskich, Polak w Ameryce, Przegląd Tygodniowy, and Warta: the Polish Weekly.

Newspapers.com Free Access for New York State Residents

Any resident of New York State can apply for a virtual library card from the New York Public Library and get at-home access to Newspapers.com, and a variety of other resources. You can apply for a library card online here.

Chronicling America

Hosted by the Library of Congress, this site offers includes more than 23 million digital newspaper pages.

Maps

Annotated list of maps for Polish genealogy, organized by publication date and coverage area.

Gazetteers

Annotated list of gazetteers for Polish genealogy, organized by coverage area, style, publication date, and language, including links to gazetteers available online.

Słownik Nazwisk at Herby.com.pl

This surname database uses PESEL data from the early 1990s, and the geographic surname distributions are depicted according to the administrative divisions of Poland as they existed between 1975 and 1999, when there were 49 provinces instead of the 16 provinces which...

Nazwiska w Polsce

This surname dictionary includes 30,000 of the most popular Polish surnames and provides the number of bearers in Poland, the popularity rank of that surname, geographic distribution, etymology, and more. The database was created from PESEL data from 2014.