ZOLYNIA VITAL RECORDS

Envelope from Zolynia's vital records office, 2000. It contained two abstracts from 1930s death registrations.

Every town in Poland has a civil records office which hold record births, deaths, marriages and divorces in registers known as "ksiegi metrykalne." After one hundred years, the registers are transferred to the nearest Polish National Archives' branch offices, which for Zolynia are located in Rzeszow.

Although in the course of two world wars, many of Zolynia's civil records have been lost and destroyed, some pre-war records have survived and can be accessed in person or by mail. The civil records office in Zolynia has at least some Jewish civil records from the following years (death registration records and other post-World War I records are the most complete):

The address of Zolynia's civil records office is:

In addition, the Przemysl Branch of the Polish National Archives has copies of Zolynia marriage records for 1916-1922. This office can be contacted at:

Ideally, letters should be written in Polish. The Polish Genealogical Society of America has an excellent web page with sample letters and specific phrases in Polish, which can be copied and pasted into any popular word processing program and printed out with proper Polish characters.

The Rzeszow Branch of the Polish National Archives holds some general administrative records of the Zolynia community for the years 1945 to 1954 (Fond No. 356/0), but it is not clear if these records will be of interest to many researchers and genealogists.

More information about accessing Polish civil records can be found in a JewishGen.org Information File.