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In
Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation
Guide to Polish, German, Latin and Russian
Documents. Volume 1: Polish
by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman
2nd edition -
ISBN 978-0-9631579-6-6
Copyright 2007
This book is softcover, perfect bound, with 388
bindery pages (viii + 380), 8.25 x 11 inches. It includes:
* over 60 Polish-language documents and extracts from American
and European sources, analyzed and translated; they include
extracts from birth, death, and marriage records of various
formats; gazetteer entries; revision lists; obituaries;
population registers; military service records; passports; etc..
* sections on Polish grammar, phonetics, and spelling
* information on how to locate records in America and Europe,
including contact information for various archives in Poland and
neighboring countries
* a chapter on gazetteers and how to use them, with 12 maps
showing Poland's changing borders and administrative
subdivisions
* a vocabulary list with over 2,500 entries, featuring terms
most likely to be found in records, including many overlooked by
most dictionaries
* a 14-page index to facilitate looking up specific items.
To see a sample of
the kind of information this book provides, please click
here.
Can be ordered through
Avotaynu, the
Polish Art Center,
and the
Polish Genealogical Society of America.
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