The Registers of Population in Archival Materials ELA

 

The database named The Registers of Population in Archival Materials ELA comprises data on all registers of population (lists, rolls, card-index records etc.) which could be found in archival materials kept in state archives. Generally, the data base did not include parish and public (civil) registers for which separate data base (PRADZIAD) has been set up. The database neither contains lists of names nor information on specific persons.

The materials in the data base have been arranged in the following way:
- description of archival materials - type (original name) of a register, date,

- classification symbols of registers (the registers were classified by the authors of the data base so the classification does not come from source materials):
areszt    convicts, prisoners, wanted, upon spying, interogated, secret agents, spies, executions, taken to camps
aut         natives
cudz       foreigners
czas       temporary inhabitants
dd          orphans
dow       identity cards, passports
duch      clergy
gosp      households
in           others – e.g. allowed to the civic rights, taken to forced labour, proprietors
jen         prisoners of war
kl           prisoners of concentration camps
lst          permanent inhabitants
meld      registration books
metr      the public register, civil records
mkd       men, women, children, young people
nar        people without defined nationality, e.g. Gipsies, Jews
part       members of parties
pob        conscripts, recruits, reservists, landwerzyści
pod        taxpayers
pos        members of parlament, members of town councils
rep        repatriates
ruch       population’s movements – coming and leaving: emigrants, refugees, setlers
sp          census
skor       indexes to registration books of permanent and temporary inhabitants
ucz         pupils, alumnuses
volk       volkslists
wojsk    military men, insurgents
wyb       electors’ registers
wyzn     religious groups
zaw       occupation groups - clerks, journeyman, craftsmen etc.

- description of the area to which the register refers - geographical name of a town, settlement or administrative unit, name of the area to which the description refers e.g. county, village etc. name of a province in which a particular town or area was located (according to the 1975-1998 administrative division of Poland),

- place of preserving the registers – the name and number of the state archive or its branch, the title and number of the fond, where the registers are from, amount of files and numbers of files.

 

 

The ELA database allows for several data search possibilities. In search fields one may enter full names or any string of characters from the information search for. In order to find registers of population:
- enter the name of the town into the field "town",

- enter the name of the register into the field "Register's title",

- select the kind of registers in the field "symbol".
 

Note: Those having no possibility to use Polish fonts (diacritical marks) may use Latin alphabet, i.e. "Lodz" instead of "Łódź". However, please do not combine these two forms of writing; for example, write "Raciąż" or "Raciaz" but not "Raciąz".

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