Index of Polish marriages until 1899

Let's do this! Let's build the index of all marriages which were taken in Polish lands until 1899. We already have 51628 marriages, the details below.

Why is this so important?

The marriage deeds are the easiest to be gathered (their number is much smaller than births and deaths), but are the most informative.
On the other hand - it is the hardest to be found, because if greatgrandparents lived in the X parish but greatgrandmother came from the Y parish - their marriage was usually taken in the Y parish and not the place they lived later.
If we find the act of birth of death of - let's say - Tomasz Chmieliński - we know little from this because there could be dozens of them. But if we find the marriage of Tomasz Chmieliński and Marianna Kowalczyk we are almost 100% sure that they are the ones in question.

Do something for your cousins - help them in finding that you are relatives

If you live in Poland, the easiest thing is to go to the closest State Archive (the list goes here) and ask for the Books of Marriages of the main parish in the city for the years 1800-1900. In the "deklaracja archiwalna" truly say that you are carrying the scientific research on the history of inhabitants of the city and you are going to publish the results.

The effect counts - gather the largest index in the smallest possible time. Therefore, the most effective is to rewrite the existing indexes (if they exist). For the area of Russian part of Poland (Królestwo Kongresowe) and Rzeczpospolita Krakowska (Wolne Miasto Kraków) it is usual that at the end of each year (of every book of marriages for the given year) there was written the index of all married people (names and surnames and the number of the act). We are writing it down. If the acts are written as table, we are rewriting in order: year, names and surnames of the married.

Area

The present site is devoted to the area of the Russian partition (the Kingdom of Poland, earlier the Duchy of Warsaw) and the Free City of Cracow (as long as the Napoleon's Civil Code was in force here, which was during 1810-1852).
Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie objęte jest projektem Poznan Project.
Grand Duchy of Posen (mostly Wielkopolska) is covered by the Poznan project.
Pomorze (Prusy Królewskie) is the domain of Pomorskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne
The Austrian partition (the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) is represented here by some data, although the civil registers were carried by other regulations and the indexes were rather not created here, so it is difficult to rewrite and publish it.

What do we have so far?

kujawsko-pomorskie - Dobrzejewice acts: 399
kujawsko-pomorskie - Ludzisko acts: 358
kujawsko-pomorskie - Papowo Toruńskie acts: 1762
lubelskie - Bełżyce acts: 204
lubelskie - Czemierniki acts: 161
lubelskie - Gorzków acts: 72
lubelskie - Hrubieszów acts: 1069
lubelskie - Końskowola acts: 1072
lubelskie - Okrzeja acts: 1460
lubelskie - Opole Lubelskie acts: 262
lubelskie - Serokomla acts: 87
lubelskie - Trzebieszów acts: 153
łódzkie - Bełdów acts: 113
łódzkie - Borszewice acts: 23
łódzkie - Borzykowa acts: 1474
łódzkie - Brzeziny acts: 741
łódzkie - Buczek acts: 162
łódzkie - Budziszewice acts: 159
łódzkie - Chabielice acts: 71
łódzkie - Charłupia Mała acts: 31
łódzkie - Dmenin acts: 1315
łódzkie - Gieczno acts: 228
łódzkie - Grocholice acts: 573
łódzkie - Grochów acts: 19
łódzkie - Jeżów acts: 351
łódzkie - Lgota Wielka acts: 987
łódzkie - Mierzyn acts: 181
łódzkie - Mikołajewice acts: 35
łódzkie - Mileszki acts: 873
łódzkie - Pabianice acts: 383
łódzkie - Skórkowice acts: 465
łódzkie - Tubądzin k. Warty acts: 90
łódzkie - Żytno acts: 64
małopolskie - Barcice: wieś Wola Krogulecka acts: 111
małopolskie - Kraków - Boże Ciało acts: 511
małopolskie - Kraków - gmina Starozakonnych acts: 23
małopolskie - Kraków - Katedra acts: 140
małopolskie - Kraków - Mariacka acts: 3483
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Anna acts: 687
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Florian acts: 1185
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Krzyż acts: 447
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Marcin (ewang.) acts: 76
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Mikołaj acts: 1350
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Salwator acts: 1559
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Stanisław na Skałce acts: 107
małopolskie - Kraków - św. Szczepan acts: 2405
małopolskie - Kraków - Wszyscy Święci acts: 1869
małopolskie - Kurdwanów: wieś Wróblowice acts: 154
małopolskie - Mszana Górna w par. Niedźwiedź acts: 413
małopolskie - Poremba: wieś Poremba acts: 31
małopolskie - Siercza, par. Wieliczka acts: 637
małopolskie - Zakliczyn acts: 72
małopolskie - Zielonki acts: 681
mazowieckie - Białobrzegi acts: 316
mazowieckie - Górzno k. Garwolina acts: 4743
mazowieckie - Grudusk acts: 741
mazowieckie - Luszyn acts: 266
mazowieckie - Łomna acts: 537
mazowieckie - Płock acts: 206
mazowieckie - Zbuczyn acts: 28
mazowieckie - Żurominek (Żuromin Kapitulny) acts: 289
podlaskie - Wiżajny acts: 33
pomorskie - Stężyca acts: 1335
śląskie - Irządze acts: 81
świętokrzyskie - Bebelno acts: 1014
świętokrzyskie - Bodzentyn acts: 59
świętokrzyskie - Cisów acts: 647
świętokrzyskie - Kazimierza Mała acts: 167
świętokrzyskie - Kazimierza Wielka acts: 60
świętokrzyskie - Niekrasów Świętokrzyski acts: 711
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Gumienice acts: 360
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Holendry-Huta, Komórki acts: 300
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Osiny acts: 228
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Pierzchnianka acts: 233
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Pierzchnica acts: 654
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Strojnów-Moczydła acts: 423
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Szczecno acts: 491
świętokrzyskie - Pierzchnica: wieś Trzemosna-Ujny acts: 206
świętokrzyskie - Podlesie acts: 646
świętokrzyskie - Połaniec acts: 1152
świętokrzyskie - Sandomierz - katedra (NMP) acts: 130
wielkopolskie - Kazimierz Biskupi acts: 1279
wielkopolskie - Kościelec pow. kaliski acts: 987
wielkopolskie - Malanów pow. turecki (d. wartski) acts: 910
wielkopolskie - Poznań, św. Jan Jerozolimski acts: 60
wielkopolskie - Prażuchy k. Konina (ewang.) acts: 273
wielkopolskie - Turek acts: 600
wielkopolskie - Wąsosze k. Konina acts: 125

Why is participating?

The project is carried under the supervision of Marek Jerzy Minakowski PhD office@przodkowie.com.

The data has been send so far by the following people:

Łukasz Bielecki - acts: 398
Robert Budzynowski - acts: 266
Jarosław Czarkowski - acts: 1931
Leszek Ćwikliński - acts: 647
Krzysztof Artur Dławichowski - acts: 1279
Justyna Dragan - acts: 637
Jacek Drożdżeński - acts: 727
Katarzyna Genderka - acts: 383
FJ Grabowski - acts: 123
F.J. Grabowski - acts: 105
Paweł Gruszczyński - acts: 60
Edward Jabłoński - acts: 2895
Michał Jakubowski - acts: 64
Józef Jamrozik - acts: 1474
Aneta Kaczmarek - acts: 876
Antoni Kaczmarek - acts: 1315
Przemysław Kisielewski - acts: 741
Andrzej Komisarski - acts: 113
Mariusz Koszkul - acts: 111
Małgorzata Kurek - acts: 72
Andrzej Kuziński - acts: 2434
Wojciech Łepkowski - acts: 90
Jacek Łopiński - acts: 573
Gilberto Magroski - acts: 399
Witold Mazuchowski - acts: 741
Krzysztof Menel - acts: 1460
Janusz Mielcarek - acts: 1069
Marek Jerzy Minakowski - acts: 14523
Jacek Młochowski - acts: 316
Justyna Morawicka - acts: 59
Marcin Niewalda - acts: 204
Bogdan Włodzimierz Nowak - acts: 873
Daniel Paczkowski - acts: 465
Michael Paluchowski - acts: 185
Barbara Paterek - acts: 130
Ryszard Pawlikowski - acts: 111
Stanisław Pieniążek - acts: 8368
Elzbieta Psikus - acts: 227
Stanisław Stefańczyk - acts: 72
Dariusz Stolarski - acts: 600
Adam Suliga i Marian Kaczmarek - acts: 1014
Wiktor Sybilski - acts: 358
Piotr Szkutnik - acts: 320
Zbigniew Szybka - acts: 413
Tadeusz Taracha - acts: 1072
Izolda Wysiecka - acts: 1335

How to do this?

The MS Excel file is perfect, but equally good is the usual text file. Please write in columns as follow:

year
number of act (the same that is written in the book)
groom's surname (in the form which would be used in the ID card nowadays)
groom's first name (in the today's standard form)
bride's surname (in the form which would be used in the ID card nowadays)
bride's first name (in the today's standard form)

The most important is the (5) item: when somebody who doesn't know the people from given parish finds the entry "Katarzyna Wenderczanka", he has no idea whether her father had surname "Wenderka", "Wenderek", "Wenderczak" or some other. It is only the person who is working upon the given parish can know.

One more thing - pleas do nat spare your time to be supercorrect. Please assume that 10% of entries must have an error in reading the surname. Such assumption will make you work two times faster and the overall profit will be much bigger (because you will rewrite twice as many entries). When we have all surnames written, we will have time to play with making corrections.

If it is only possible, please rewrite the acts of marriage placed at the end of the book. In such case you don't need even to look into the main part of the book.

The order of columns can vary - it is only important that it is convenient for you (to make you work faster) and to be consequent. Here you have an example of the index:

Kraków, Najświętsza Maria Panna
(...)
1814

1 Gorski Antoni Trukowski Elżbieta
2 Sorczyk Stanisław Kudelski Magdalena
3 Lassota Jacek Lipczyński Tekla
4 Wieczorek Mateusz Siekua Julianna
5 Bartkowski Franciszek Pyziałek Helena
6 Pazdanski Ignacy Bochenek Katarzyna
7 Pirer Stanisław Farapaka Julianna
8 Bobrucki Dominik Panek Katarzyna
9 Złobnicki Józef Dupak Zofia
10 Hendel Piotr Kozłowski Francizka
11 Massalski Filip Jakub Nowakowski Mariana
(...)