Kinga Urbańska

A genealogist, historian, archivist, together with the team working with any kind of documentation (metrical and non-metrical) from all over Poland and former Polish provinces, such as Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus.
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About Me

A genealogist, historian, archivist and most importantly a founder of Your Roots in Poland and Twoje Korzenie w Polsce Foundation. My main goal is to help all those who are looking for their roots in Poland - both regions within the present geographic borders of Poland or in the areas that used to be Polish soil. Together with a team I search for any kind of documentation all over Poland and former Polish provinces, such as Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus. I read Old Polish, Latin, Old German and Old Russian. I am a true fan of non – metrical records resources such as: military, land and school records, censuses, court and tax documentation, etc. I am also experienced in heir research

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Locations Researched

Time Periods

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Specialties

Emigration & Immigration

Historical Sites

Polish Americans

Archives & Location

Nearby Archives

Archiwum akt Nowych (Poland)

The Central Archives of Modern Records was created through a decree issued by chief of state Józef Piłsudski on 7 February 1919. The archive quickly became one of the largest archives, which, in 1939 was a possession of 35 kilometers of records of central state institutions

State Archive in Torun (Poland)

The State Archives in Toruń has thousands of digitized collections, including vital records, and these are at Szukajwarchiwach.pl. You can see all online collections from the State Archives in Toruń and its branch in Wloclawek by searching at Szukajwarchiwach.pl and filtering results by these archives.

Diocesan Archives in Włocławek (Poland)

The Diocesan Archives in Włocławek have been operating under this name since 1953. Before World War II, it was called the Archives of the Włocławek Chapter, which was a legacy from earlier centuries, when bishops resided little in Włocławek, and care for the entire diocese files was entrusted to the chapter whose members permanently resided at the cathedral.

State Archive in Poznań (Poland)

The State Archive in Poznan, which preserves more than 14.5 kilometers of current records (collected in about 1.2 million archival units), stores exceptionally valuable and unique historical sources depicting both the history of Poland and the development of European civilisation.

Archdiocesan Archives in Gniezno (Poland)

The Archdiocesan Archive of Gniezno was erected in 1960 by the Primate of Poland, card. Stefan Wyszyński. Its original stock had belonged earlier to the Metropolitan Cathedral Chapter in Gniezno. It is an archive of historical significance and its present collection is one of the largest and most valuable in Poland.

Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny) (Poland)

The Jewish Historical Institute, also known as the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, is a research foundation in Warsaw, Poland, chiefly dealing with the history of Jews in Poland and Jewish culture.

Central Archives of Historical Records (Warsaw) (Poland)

Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw is one of four Polish national archives. The archive was founded in 1808 and holds records ranging from 12th century until World War I. A large portion of the archive was destroyed during World War II in 1939 and in 1944.

State Archives in Bydgoszcz (Archiwum Państwowe w Bydgoszczy) (Poland)

The archive in Bydgoszcz was created in 1906 and stored the documentation of the liquidated Prussian General Commission for the Provinces of Posen and West Prussia.

Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej) (Poland)

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives with investigative and lustration powers.

Archdiocesan Archives in Poznań (Poland)

The main Archive for Poznań Archdiocese was found in 1925 as a self-dependent diocesan institution. It was the very first institution of that kind in Poland. From the very beginning, seat of the new Record Archives became the former building of Lubranski Academy.

Diocesan Archives in Toruń (Poland)

The Archives of Historical Records of the Toruń Diocese was established by the decree of the Bishop of Toruń, Andrzej Suski, on June 24, 2001. The basis for the erection of the central historical archive for the Toruń Diocese, established in 1992, were the provisions of the Code of Canon Law. The basic functions of the Toruń diocesan archive were collecting, storing and making available the archives. The bishop decree obligated the Archives to issue a statute and regulations, which were to define the rules of its operation and the use of archival materials.

Kraków National Archives (Poland)

The Archiwum narodowy w Krakowie / The National Archives in Krakow, together with its branches outside the city, is one of the main archives in Poland. It is located in the second largest and one of the oldest Polish cities; in the Middle Ages it also used to be the Polish capital. The Archiwum narodowy w Krakowie / The National Archives in Krakow supervises the handling of documents in nearly seven hundred institutions active in all spheres of social life: from the offices of public administration through to cultural, scholarly, educational and legal institutions, firms, state and local government organisational units, environmental institutions, health care and social service institutions.

Warsaw State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives is a network consisting of 3 archives of a central nature based in Warsaw (the Central Archives of Historical Records, the Archives of New Records and the National Digital Archives) and 30 archives with 39 subordinate branches and 3 branches located throughout Poland.

Kraków Curia Archives (Poland)

The Archdiocese of Krakow is one of the 14 Latin-rite archdioceses in the Polish Catholic Church, established in 1925.

Przemyśl Archdiocesan Archives (Poland)

The Przemyśl diocese of the Latin rite was erected around 1340. Pope Gregory XI, by bull Debitum pastoralis officii of February 13, 1375, he included it in the newly created metropolis of Halych. Pope John Paul II, in the bull Totus Tuus Poloniae populus of March 25, 1992, established it as a metropolis for the Przemyśl archdiocese and the diocese of Rzeszów and Zamość-Lubaczów.

Białystok State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Białystok, in addition to the tasks focused on collecting, storing and securing archival materials, also conducts extensive publishing, educational, popularization and promotion, digitization (aimed at making resources available online) and research. Organizes, in consultation with academic centers, apprenticeships for students, stores and secures non-archival documentation left over from liquidated workplaces, and from 2018 - also election files.

Katowice State Archives (Poland)

The history of the historical archive in Katowice dates back to November 1932, when the Silesian Voivode, Dr. Michał Grażyński signed the "Temporary Regulations of the Archives of Historical Records of the Silesian Voivodeship". The organization of this institution was entrusted to a historian and archivist from Lviv, Dr. Michał Antonow (in 2012, the Scientific Center of the Head Office in Katowice was named after him). The Archives of Historical Records of the Silesian Voivodeship, the first Polish historical archive in Silesia, until 1939 operated due to the autonomous status of the Silesian Voivodeship, as an internal unit of the Silesian Voivodeship Office. Dr. M. Antonów was in charge of the Archive until 1969 with a break during the war.

Gdańsk State Archives (Poland)

State Archives in Gdańsk is one of Poland's regional state archives. The archive in the city of Gdańsk was founded under Prussian jurisdiction in 1901.

Gdynia State Archives (Poland)

The beginning of the archive in Gdynia was the establishment in 1950 of the County Branch of the State Archives in Gdańsk.

Płock State Archives (Poland)

Płock has great archival traditions dating back to the 13th century. At that time, the Archive of the Płock Castle was established - one of the oldest archives in Poland. It collected files created by the chancellor and the starost. The staroste supervised the castle, managed the prince's estates and exercised judicial power over the castle. With time, he handed over his powers to municipal courts, and then to the land courts. As a result of their activity, town and land books were created. The Castle Archives functioned until the mid-17th century.

Rzeszów State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Rzeszów was established on November 10, 1950 by the order of the then Minister of Education.

Tarnów State Archives (Poland)

The resource includes archives created by church institutions in the Tarnów diocese (Bishops Consistory, Diocesan Curia, curial agendas and parishes). The archive has a reference collection, including Currendy (official journal of the Tarnów diocese), Schematicisms of the Tarnów Diocese (from 1827), as well as studies on the history of the Church and archives. The Diocesan Archives in Tarnów has a research studio (reading room) and a computer room. The research lab accepts applicants where they make a research query.

Zamość State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Zamość was established in August 1950 on the basis of the order of the Minister of Education of July 21, 1950 as a district branch of the State Archives in Lublin.

Lublin State Archives (Poland)

The State Archive in Lublin was established in the present form in 1918. Already the Archive's beginnings continue the archival traditions of Lublin, which go back to the 16th century, when offices and courts kept systematic archives, where were held documents and municipal registers, sąd grodzki [castle court, iudicium castrensis] records and registers of Crown Tribunal sessions in Lublin, Lublin's sąd ziemski [nobles' district court] registers and chamberlain records.

Zielona Góra State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Zielona Góra were established relatively late, only in 1953. Until then, that is in the years 1945-1953, the areas of the Lubuskie Region were served by the Provincial State Archives in Poznań and Wrocław.

Wrocław State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Wrocław was established on the ruins of the Staatsarchiv zu Breslau operating in pre-war Wrocław. In 1811, in connection with the secularization of Silesian monasteries, the Archives of the Silesian Province in Wrocław (Das Schlesische Provinzialarchiv) were established, whose task was to secure a huge number of books, works of art and archives accumulated by monasteries in Lower and Upper Silesia over the past centuries.

Opole State Archives (Poland)

The archive in Opole in its earliest period has not been fully known so far. We can guess that in the Middle Ages there was a file repository in the Opole town hall, which stored documents containing rights and privileges important to the city, as well as documentation created as a result of the activities of the magistrate.

Olsztyn State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Olsztyn was founded November 15, 1948, originally operating as the Provincial State Archives in Olsztyn.

Kielce State Archives (Poland)

The resources of the State Archives in Kielce are files of cities, communes and guilds, general and special administration, the judiciary, enterprises and economic institutions, as well as schools of social institutions, associations, estates, individuals and families. The chronological range of the resource is mainly the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although the oldest documents date back to the fifteenth century.

Radom State Archives (Poland)

The history of the State Archives in Radom is closely related to the history of the archives existing in the city in the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century. In Old Polish sources there is an archive of the town, located in the restored part of the castle in Radom.

Gorzów Wielkopolski State Archives (Poland)

The State Archives in Gorzów was established on August 1, 1950 as a branch of the Provincial State Archives in Poznań.

Lviv State Archives (Ukraine)

The archives was created in November, 1939, as the Central Archives of Ancient Deeds in Lviv. It consolidated three major archives that existed in Lviv up until the Second World War,- the Archives of old deeds of the city of Lviv, the Zemsky archives, and the State archives, as well as a number of well-known corporate and private collections.

Kyiv State Archives (Ukraine)

State archive of Kyiv oblast was founded on 29th of May in 1922 and as the Kyiv Central Historical Archives. In 1932, since Kyiv oblast was formed, Kyiv Central Historical Archives was transformed to Kyiv Oblast Historical Archives (the funds of Kyiv Central Historical Archives and Kyiv District Archive Administration were joined).

Lithuanian State Historical Archives (Lithuania)

Lithuanian State Historical Archives is the main repository of records for the Lithuanian history from the 13th century up to the declaration of the Independence of Lithuania in 1918. The records of state institutions, religious communities, popular organizations and families that are maintained in this Archives also reflect the history of Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and other countries.

Grodno State Archives (Belarus)

The Archives was established as the State Archives of Bialystok Region in 1944. In September 1944, following the cession of the major part of Bialystok Region to Poland and the establishment of Grodno Region as part of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), the Archives was reorganized as the State Archives of Grodno Region under the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (from March 1946, Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Academics & Certifications

Academics
An education or degree conferred by a 4 year institution or other educational body
Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland, Master Degree, History and Archivistics
Academics
An education or degree conferred by a 4 year institution or other educational body
Academics
An education or degree conferred by a 4 year institution or other educational body
Certification
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