Tips needed on Tracing Polish Relatives please.

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Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 104 Send Message	Louisa	Report	5 Feb 2006 19:45
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 104 Send Message	I am trying to find out if any other GR members have found any useful foreign sites tracing their ancestors from Poland or Germany, any tips greatly appreciated. Many Thanks Louisa x
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 164 Send Message	Spam	Report	5 Feb 2006 19:53
	Googled 'Tracing Polish Relatives' and found that Poland Redcross is helping people
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 104 Send Message	Louisa	Report	5 Feb 2006 19:56
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 104 Send Message	Thank you i will take a look, i did have a go the other day and found it quite difficult to navigate some websites i found, also a few i looked at wanted astronomical amounts of money before i could view anything. Thanks for your help. Louisa
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 4 785 Send Message	Val wish I'd never started	Report	26 Mar 2006 00:43
	nudge for above
Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 2 077 Send Message	Paul Barton, Special Agent	Report	26 Mar 2006 08:09
Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 2 077 Send Message	I've been on the trail of ancestors from Bahn, a little town in Prussia now 20 miles inside the Polish border. It seems that the Nazis took local records back to Berlin to check on peoples Jewish ancestry (charming) so you may be surprised to find what you're looking for there.