Welcome to our Archives

A handful of information prepared
for you

Visiting our website you can acquire information on our Archives’ history, find out how to locate us,
and get to know what archival materials are being stored within our resources (Local files & Factual files data bases),
how to use the files (read Byelaw & Rules section first).

For people searching for their ancestors
(creating genealogy trees) or legal land and building owners
there is a separate section called SEARCH QUERIES.
After having chosen the right location and parish from the map you will receive information
on the books in our possession and on years
they had been dated on.

Please read the genealogic search query know-hows.
In case of any questions do not hesitate to send us a message.

The Archives' staff

News from the Archives

An editorial novelty in the Archives (02 grudzień 2013 r.)

     Position number 3 in the series: Sources for history of  Catholic Church in Upper Silesia has been issued, it contains full information on metrics books of baptisms,...
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Digitalized metrics books record (06 wrzesień 2011 r.)

     We have created two computer sites within our collection sharing room which enable the users to browse through our Archive's digitalized metrics books. You can access them...
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Download forms (29 wrzesień 2009 r.)

Under the picture of an angel you can find downloads (empty forms are marked as “print forms”) and samples of ready-made genealogic, proprietary, and inheritance query search...
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