Baptist Records in Russian Poland
NOTE: If you find films for the Lutheran Church in Poland that are not listed here or if you find any errors in the listing, please let us know by contacting us at databases@sggee.org
Baptist Church Records in Poland
Included with all of the people who lived in Poland, a significant number were of German ancestry, some of whom were of the Baptist faith. These people moved into Poland from the German states and Prussia at least as early as the late 18th century, and somewhat continuously in large numbers until at least the 1870s. By about 1900, many of these people had left this area to move to present-day eastern Poland, Volhynia, or other places. It appears that a significant number never left Poland until at least World War II.
Poland, as used here, will be the all of present-day Poland. We do not presently have a list of all Baptist churches in Poland, but we have found the following church records in the LDS Church Family History Library (FHL) Catalog
Family History Library filming generally ends with about the 1880s records, because the remaining records were not yet 100 years old at the time of filming. Because records after about 1869 are in the more difficult (to us) Russian Cyrillic, the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe will, at this time, limit the tranlation of Baptist parish indexes to about 1869 (except for those cases where the film continues in German or Polish) and earlier. We will also include later indices where our volunteers have undertaken the translation of the later indices that are avaialble.
Handwritten records were kept for all births, marriages and deaths that were reported to the Baptist Church. If an event occurred before the establishment of a Baptist Church, or if the event occurred in a village that was some distance away from the Baptist Church, the record may be recorded in the nearest Catholic or Lutheran Church. This process was mandated by civil authorities.
The names of the Baptist churches listed below are from the FHL Catalog. Provinces are from the same 1938 Breyer map noted on the Lutheran Church archives web page. Our comments on the status of scans of indexes is noted in the Status column below.
Notes for the list that follows:
1. Since we have no data yet on the date of establishment of Baptist churches, the date of establishment listed below is listed with a question mark. The date following the question mark is the first date listed for the church records in the FHL Catalog
2. Click on the parish below to view the listing of films for that parish. If we are translating the indices for that parish, the Status column will indicate the person doing the translations.
| Church | Province | Year Established | Status |
| Plock/ Schrottersburg | Warschau | ?? (1874-1875) | |
| Sierpc/ Sichelberg | Warschau | ??(1870-1880) | |
| Szydlow | Piotrkow Trybunalski | ?? (1874-1877) | |
| Tuszyn | Lodz | 1874-1880 |