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Month: February 2012

  • How to order and interpret records from Polish repositories for the illiterate in Polish

    Polish Alphabet-gray letters are historical characters (source: Wikimedia Commons, User: Faxe)

    Usually when I send an e-mail to the Polish archives or other authorities in English, they will reply to it and include payment instructions and/or the results of their research. In other cases they will just reply that they do not understand the English language and require another e-mail written in the Polish language. These replies from the Polish archives or authorities will sometimes be in English and sometimes in Polish.

    On 6 December 2011 I received an interesting reply from the Registry Office in Tarnow (UrzÄ™du Stanu Cywilnego w Tarnowie) in which they stated that by law the Polish language is the (more…)