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The Order of Saint Stanislaus (Polish: Order św. Stanisława Biskupa Męczennika, Russian: Орден Святого Станислава), also spelled Stanislas, was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It remained under the Kingdom of Poland between 1765 and 1831, and was incorporated under the Russian Empire from 1831 to 1917, unti...
The Military Order of Virtuti Militari (War Order of Virtuti Militari) (Latin for "For Military Valour") is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war. It was created in 1792 by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski and is one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use. The Virtuti Militari Order (Latin: To military coura...
Poland / Polska Poland - Locations project is a networking forum for families researching their roots in Poland or the historical lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The project is growing, and we are inviting collaboration partners. It is easy to find more detailed projects from here, such as regional and "Locality" projects. Many locality projects also include links to town- or settl...
This umbrella project aims to collect all other GENI projects, which are collections of profiles based on professions, achievements, ethnic groups, or affiliations to schools and various organizations and all prominent people associated with Poland. Additionally, there is a listing of awards and honors, some issued by institutions of Poland, some are foreign, but often given to people of Poland...
This umbrella project lists all GENI projects related to the History of Poland. Here, you can learn significant Polish historical facts, specifically related to genealogy, and other helpful information. If you have Polish ancestry, please follow this project. Please join and contribute to this project by adding ongoing historical GENI projects, specifying this project under documents, images, ...
1863 January Uprising - Lithuanian and Polish revolt against Imperial Russia. Started in 1862, suppressed by the Russian Imperial Army in 1864. Uprising participants were harshly punished: nobility titles were removed, property confiscated, and people executed, imprisoned, or sent to exile. Some escaped and lived their remaining years in foreign countries. Please add profiles of participants ...
Polish soldiers of World War One. Polscy żołnierze w Pierwszej Wojnie Światowej. 1914-1918= Zaangażowanie Polaków na frontach I wojny światowej jest jedną z najczęściej pomijanych kart naszej historii. Powodem jest zapewne fakt nieistnienia polskiej, niepodległej państwowości w okresie, w którym toczyły się walki. Takie podejście jednak powoduje, że nie uwzględnia się ani wzmożonych wysiłków p...
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon join...
Polish Brazilians (Portuguese: polono-brasileiros, Polish: Polonia brazylijska) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Polish ancestry who are aware of such ancestry and remain connected, to some degree, to Polish culture, or Polish-born people permanently residing in Brazil. Also, a Polish Brazilian may have one Polish parent. Polish immigrants began arriving in Brazil in the late 19th centu...
— Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — A. Old dynasties (holding princes' status before 1569, approved by the Union of Lublin) A.1. Existing to this day, which after the partitions were recognized in the partitioning states (Austria or Prussia) as families equal to the ruling ones (the title Durchlaucht , i.e. Brightly Enlightened , traditionally reserved for ruling dynasties, and the title Fürst f...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; Polish: powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka. After the Grossaktion Warsaw of s...
This project deals with the family stories of the many Poles who emigrated from their homeland to the USA. The task of this project will be to try to give the people who are on the passenger lists a family history and perhaps even a link to the world family tree. It's also about filling out existing stories and expanding them further. We hope that this project will serve its purpose and that Ge...
Of Major Significance ===== The Polish resistance movement in World War II, with the Polish Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance in all of Nazi-occupied Europe. === The Polish Underground State comprises the underground resistance organisations in Poland during WWII, military and civilian. It was one of the largest in the world andinxlided structures such as educat...
In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...
Kashubian History and Culture This project is to focus on the history of the Kashubian people and their unique culture, traditions and language. Kashubians are not German nor Polish. Since 2005, the Kashubian language enjoys legal protection by the Polish government as a minority language. Kashubian is taught in Polish schools and is found on many street signs in the region. Historians and li...
Prezydenci II Rzeczpospolitej / Presidents of the Second Polish Republic 1. Gabriel Narutowicz 14 grudnia 1922–16 grudnia 1922- Maciej Rataj 16 grudnia 1922–20 grudnia 1922 (zastępował Prezydenta RP po opróżnieniu urzędu jako marszałek Sejmu)2. Stanisław Wojciechowski 20 grudnia 1922–14 maja 1926- Maciej Rataj 15 maja 1926–4 czerwca 1926 (zastępował Prezydenta RP po opróżnieniu urzędu j...
Ten projekt ma na celu zbierać profile osób, które mieszkały na terenie dzisiejszego Zawiercia, w historycznych parafiach, znajdujących się w miejscowościach Kromołów (św. Mikołaja) i Skarżyce (św. Trójcy i św. Floriana). This project aims to collect profiles of people who have lived in the area of present-day Zawiercie, in the historical parishes of Kromołów (St Nicholas) and Skarżyce (Holy T...
This project aims to identify founders, notable teachers, and students of Warsaw University from 1816 to the present day. If you have an individual in your family tree who was a notable professor, administrator, or student of high professional achievement (later in life) whose education was associated with Warsaw University, please add them to this project. It would be great if there was a br...
Zapraszamy do uczestniczenia w projekcie Geni Polska - który ma na celu skupienie jak największej liczby polskich użytkowników Geni w celu lepszej i wydajniejszej współpracy! W przypadku jakichkolwiek pytań kliknij tutaj . Członków prosimy o zapraszanie współpracowników z Polski do tego projektu (Opcje > Add Collaborators). Witamy w Geni Polska! ...w miejscu, gdzie powinieneś skierować sw...
The citizens of Poland have the world's highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem of Jerusalem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There are 7,112 (as of 1 January 2020) Polish men and women recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, over a quarter of the 27,712 recognized by Yad Vashem in ...
For basic profile naming principles on the GENI network, please refer to Geni Naming Conventions page . Area-specific rules are also listed under Geni Naming Conventions page under the Area Specific Rules sub-heading. The first written Polish consists of a list of names in the Papal Bull issued in 1136 by Pope Innocent II to the archbishop of Gniezno; the oldest recorded sentence is a gl...
Please add public profiles of those who served in the Polish Customs Guard and Border Guard between 1922 and 1939. Customs Guard – a border formation of the Second Polish Republic serving on the border with Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Romania in the years 1922–1928. The Customs Guard was established at the request of the Ministry of Finance by a resolution of March 10, 1920, and was officia...
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This project focuses only on Polish pioneers who were born in Poland (Prussian Poland, Austrian Poland and Russian Poland) and settled in Michigan in 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. If you would like to connect your ancestors who came in America at a later time and settled in Michigan, please refer to a different project titled: Polish Americans in Michigan, United States of America . The first lasting...
Jagiellonian Dynasty The Jagiellonian (Lithuanian: Jogailaičių dinastija; Polish: dynastia jagiellońska), otherwise the Jagiellon dynasty (Polish: dynastia Jagiellonów), the House of Jagiellon (Polish: Dom Jagiellonów), or simply the Jagiellons (Lithuanian: Jogailaičiai; Polish: Jagiellonowie; Latin: Iagellonidae), was the name assumed by a cadet branch of the Lithuanian ducal dynasty of Gedimi...