Reconnect with Your Polish Ancestry
Uncover your family history, retrieve lost citizenship documents, and bridge the gap between past and present.
Your family’s story is still in Poland — but it’s slipping away.
Every year, more of it fades. Archives that hold your ancestors’ records aren’t online, the older relatives who remember the names are passing, and the documents that survive are written in languages almost no one reads anymore. The sooner you start, the more of your story you can still recover.
Whoever you’re searching for, the wall feels the same.
Maybe you’re building a family tree and the trail goes cold the moment it crosses into Poland.
Maybe you’re applying for Polish citizenship by descent and need the exact birth and marriage records the process demands.
Or maybe you’ve been stuck for years on one stubborn “brick wall” ancestor.
Most of my clients are Polish-Americans and citizenship applicants who’ve already tried the online databases and hit the same dead end — and that’s exactly where my work begins.
The records you need are usually the ones that were never scanned
Sites like Ancestry, FamilySearch, and Geneteka are a great place to start — but they hold less than 30% of Polish historical records, mostly from larger cities and a handful of digitised regions.
The rest are still on paper: in parish basements, the reading rooms of regional State Archives (Archiwum Państwowe), and civil registry offices (USC) that have never put a scanner near their books.
Building a real family tree almost always means someone has to reach those books — through the right archive, the right request, and sometimes a visit in person. That’s the part I do.
You get more than a list of names — you get your family’s story, stitched back together.
Bridge the gap between past and present
Genealogical Research in Poland
Discover your ancestors, locate archival records, and receive a detailed report.
Citizenship Documents Retrieval
Get official Polish documents for your citizenship application directly from Polish archives and registry offices.
Translations
Translate old family records from Polish, Russian, German, or Latin. Professional genealogical translations with context and clarity.
Simple Steps to Discovery
You focus on your family’s story. I’ll handle the archives.
Tell me what you know
A name, a date, a region. Even a single surname is enough to start.
Get a free assessment
Within a few days you’ll have a personalized research plan and a clear quote — no obligation.
Receive your family’s records
Original documents, translations, and analysis, delivered in one comprehensive report.
Deep roots in the regions where Polish-American families actually come from
Poland’s borders moved for two centuries, so where your ancestors lived determines which archive, which language, and which records survive. I work across all of them:
Congress Poland & central Poland (Russian partition)
Civil records in Polish before 1868 and Russian up to 1918, including the Łódź region where I’m based.
Galicia (Austrian partition)
Catholic and Jewish parish records, often in Latin and Polish.
The Prussian partition
German-language civil and church records in Kurrent script.
The Eastern Borderlands
Eastern Galicia and present-day western Ukraine, where records are scattered and hard to trace without local knowledge.
If you only know “my family was from Galicia” or a half-remembered village name, that’s enough for me to work out where to look.
About Me
Hi, I’m Martyna — and if you’re staring at a blank family tree wondering where to even begin, you’re exactly who I work with.
Most of my clients are Polish-Americans and families applying for Polish citizenship by descent — people who need more than a name on a document. They need context, clarity, and someone who treats their family’s history with care.
That’s the work I’ve spent the last several years doing: hands-on in Polish State Archives and civil registry offices, across the regions where most Polish-American families have roots — Galicia, central Poland, Congress Poland, and the Prussian partition. I know which records survive, where they’re held, and how to read them. Every case is handled personally — no outsourcing, no shortcuts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost?
Packages start at $80 USD for a preliminary check; most full projects run between $400 and $800.
How long does it take?
Usually 4–8 weeks, depending on the archives involved.
What if the records don’t exist?
You still get a full report of everything checked — no effort wasted.
Explore My Genealogy Articles
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Ancestors from the Russian Partition: Which Records Survive and Where to Find Them
Most people tracing ancestors from the Russian partition hit the same wall at the same point. They find the parish,…
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Ancestors from Galicia: Which Records Survive and Where to Find Them
Tracing ancestors from Galicia? Austrian record-keeping was thorough, so more survives than you expect. Here is what, and where. First,…
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The 100-Year Rule: Why Your Polish Birth Record Might Not Be Where You Expect
People come to me convinced they’ve done something wrong. They’ve searched Geneteka, searched Szukajwarchiwach, searched FamilySearch — and the record…
Connect with Your Past
Your family’s story is waiting in Poland.
Every family has a thread worth following. Tell me what you know — even just a surname and a region — and I’ll show you what’s possible. No commitment, just a clear sense of what’s still out there.