Szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl is a free, online database for the various National and State Archives of Poland as well as a few other institutions (listed below). It was created by the National Digital Archive. You can search for civil registrations and parish records/registers throughout Poland and the database specifies the archive, the collection name & dates, and images for all records in that collection. (No index.)

Material on Szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl is free to download, copy, and distribute.

They have a published guide called, “How to use digitized records on the Polish State Archives’ website.”

These are the archives with Polish parish records or civil registrations at Szukajwarchiwach.pl:

• Central Archives of Historical Records
• Central Archives of Modern Records
• National Digital Archive
• State Archives in Bialystok
• State Archives in Bydgoszcz
• State Archives in Czestochowa
• State Archive in Elblag
• State Archives in Gdansk
• State Archive in Gorzów Wielkopolski
• National Archive in Krakow
• State Archives in Kalisz
• State Archives in Katowice
• State Archives in Kielce
• State Archives in Koszalin
• State Archives in Leszno
• State Archives in Lublin
• State Archives in Łódź
• State Archives in Olsztyn
• State Archives in Opole
• State Archives in Poznan
• State Archives in Piotrków Trybunalski
• State Archives in Płock
• State Archives in Przemysl
• State Archives in Radom
• State Archives in Rzeszow
• State Archives in Siedlce
• State Archive in Suwałki
• State Archives in Szczecin
• State Archives in Warsaw
• State Archives in Wroclaw
• State Archive in Zamość
• State Archives in Zielona Góra
• Hoover Institute Archives
• Archives of the Zamoyski Museum in Kozłówka
• Archive of the National Museum in Krakow
• Archive of the Polish Library. Ignacy Domeykis
• Archive of the Foundation of Culture and Heritage of the Polish Armenians
• Central Museum of Prisoners of War in Lambinowice-Opole
• Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra