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Locating the grave of a family member may at times bring a breakthrough in the research. The most comprehensive database for Poland is www.grobonet.com. At present it has more than 6 million records from Polish cemeteries and graveyards. Although there is no English version of the website, it is very intuitive and easy to use.
There are four fields to enter research criteria. Enter the surname of the person in the second field. Optionally, in the first field you may enter their name. Please note that both name and surname may have a different spelling to what you think it should be. You may wish to check here for the correct spelling of Polish male and female given names.
The third field is a drop down list of Polish provinces, so if you know where the tombstone you are looking for is located you may choose one of them.
In the last field you may enter the name of the place where the graveyard or cemetery is located.
The results will be displayed on a map of Poland with number of matching records in each province. After clicking on a selected province, a list of cemeteries with their location and the number of matching results will be presented. And finally, click on a selected cemetery to view the graves that match your searching criteria. Besides names, surnames and dates of birth and death, each entry also has the information on the graves&#; location on the given cemetery. Most often the pictures of the tombstone are also available.
Out of the global databases there are two major ones that need to be mentioned here: www.findagrave.com and www.billiongraves.com &#; each of them having nearly 1. million records from Polish cemeteries. Both databases are in English and easy to use.
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The above databases give us many opportunities for searching, but we must remember that not all the graves of our ancestors survived to this day. Many factors could have influenced this situation. Whether there is still someone who looks after this particular grave, whether the cemetery site has been paid for a sufficiently long time, and even if the cemetery is still located at the burial site.
The cemetery is a limited space, if the grave in which our ancestor was buried was neglected, the time for which it was paid has long passed (usually the fee is paid for 25 years) it is highly probable that such grave was liquidated, and the remains of our relatives were transferred to mass grave located at this particular cemetery. It could also happen that subsequent generations of the family were buried at the burial place of our ancestors, but no one noted this procedure and the grave plate does not contain information about all the people buried in the place.
When looking for the graves of our relatives, we must also remember that most parish cemeteries did not keep registers of people buried there, or these registers have not survived to our times. The graves indexed and placed in the above mentioned databases do not contain all the burials that took place in the developed cemeteries, but only all of those that survived until the creation of the modern register. Therefore, on the one hand, the older the grave we are looking for, the less likely we will succeed. On the other hand, in many cemeteries the oldest graves are a kind of monuments, because of their artistic values, or because the person buried in it is considered important for local history and culture or in the nationwide dimension. Such graves are usually covered by conservation, and one of the ways to take care of these monuments is annual fundraising organized on our cemeteries.
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