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Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]
Yes. The trick will be getting the records of your great-grandfather's birth and marriage from the national archives in Warsaw.
So I've been in contact with the national archives in Warsaw and the first email reply I received said
"Dear Sir, To start genealogical research You should know at last:
- the name or the version of the name of the ancestor;
- the date of the fact (birth, marriage or death);
- the name of the place, when it happened (parish or community, with the administrative location or unit)
- and the denomination The above mentioned information let the archivist to help You.
Therefore we ask you to send us your updated request once more.
Best regards, Sekretariat"
After replying to that with the info they sent me this
"Dear Sir,
Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw would like to inform you, that our archive keeps above all historical records of the central authorities: Crown Archives an Royal chancery registers (from 13th till 18th century) are kept along with the registers of the local tribunals for nobles (from 15th till 18th century) and records of public authorities, offices and institutions from the period of Partitions (1795-1918). We have also public registers only from the four former, before World War II, provinces (województwa) of Eastern Poland - lwowskie, stanisławowskie, tarnopolskie, wołyńskie (today in Ukraine), usually older than 100 years.
So we are not able to help you, but we forwarded your case to the State Archives in Bydgoszcz (mail: dz.info@archiwum.bydgoszcz.pl )."
They sent an email to that address with the info and a copy of it to me. So I guess I'm just waiting for the Bydgoszcz archives to get back to me. Is there anybody else I should contact in the mean time? I have been able to find an index for my great grandfather's and my great great grandfather's and all the way up to my greatx3 grandfathers marriage records on Poznań project but I'm not really understanding where they're located or how I can obtain them any help with that would be amazing.