[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Odp: AGAD

[Anna Zglińska]

If you want to visit AGAD (or any archive in Poland):

Don't take any laptop with you It's forbidden to use electricity in 
reading room in AGAD- remember archives usually have small budgets. 
Learn at least few words and sentences in Polish! Most people working in 
AGAD speak English wery well :P you must do something wrong if they 
didn't wont to. Find someone in Poland to help you, don't risk.

Every archive has its card catalog, but now internet databases are in 
common use.
Younger church books from Wolhynia are in Urzad Stanu Cywilnego 
Warszawa-Śródmieście- after 100 years this office send church books to 
AGAD. It would be interesting to look trough complex "Centralne Władze 
Wyznaniowe" especially "Zarząd Obcych Wyznań w Królestwie Polskim". 
Those are connected especially to lutheran church in Poland in XIX 
century.

AGAD records are not very useful for research on XIX- century, 
nevertheless those records are the only that survived II World War.  The 
XIX century records were in Archive of Treasure (Archiwum Skarbowe) and 
in Archiwum Akt Dawnych. Most records burnt down in 1944.


If you going to Poland just remember: Poland is not wild area without 
civilisation :P and we do not steal cars standing just in front of 
archive!

Have a nice time in Poland
Anna Zglinska