While these maps provide a good overview of Europe, most Polish genealogists will also want to see higher resolution maps.<\/p>\n
Two of the best, high-resolution historical maps of Poland available on the web are the\u00c2\u00a0Illustrated Geographic Atlas<\/a> from 1907 (on\u00c2\u00a0the website of the Polish Genealogical Society of America) and the Miltary Maps of the Austrian Empire<\/a> from about 1900-1910. The Military Maps of the Austrian Empire cover much of central and eastern Europe, not just Poland.<\/p>\n The Polish village of Pyrzowice\u00c2\u00a0is included on\u00c2\u00a0both maps\u00c2\u00a0but, in the Illustrated Geographic Atlas, the name of the village is spelled Py\u017cowice. In Polish, the letters “rz” and “\u017c” are pronounced identically, so the spelling difference is not unexpected.<\/p>\n Map of the Village of Pyrzowice and Vicinity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SOURCE: 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, Sheet 37-50, Oswiecim. Online http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/37-50.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 27 Jul 2007.<\/p>\n Click on the map above to see a larger and more deailed image.<\/p>\n Not only is Pyrzowice shown on the Military Map of the Austrian Empire, but the parish of S\u0105cz\u00f3w is also shown .\u00a0S\u0105cz\u00f3w is the place where the records for the village of Pyrzowice were maintained. Unfortunately, the Family History Library Catalog does not yet appear to have records from S\u0105cz\u00f3w on microfilm.<\/p>\n I remember that, at a conference of the United Polish Genealogical Societies, a representative of the Family History Library showed\u00c2\u00a0the locations in Poland where\u00c2\u00a0the Library was planning to film records, and western Poland was on their schedule. With luck, S\u0105cz\u00f3w may be one of the parishes to be filmed in the near future.<\/p>\n Tomorrow:<\/strong> How using gazetteers and maps together can help answer genealogical questions.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Historical maps of Poland are easier and easier to come by on the web. Euratlas.com provides\u00c2\u00a0a series of maps\u00c2\u00a0of Europe through the past 2000 years, allowing the viewer to see how the map of Europe changed with time. While these … Continue reading ![\"Map](\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Pyrzowice.jpg\")
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![http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/37-50.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 27 Jul 2007.<\/p>\nClick on the map above to see a larger and more deailed image.<\/p>\nNot only is Pyrzowice shown on the Military Map of the Austrian Empire, but the parish of S\u0105cz\u00f3w is also shown .\u00a0S\u0105cz\u00f3w is the place where the records for the village of Pyrzowice were maintained. Unfortunately, the Family History Library Catalog does not yet appear to have records from S\u0105cz\u00f3w on microfilm.<\/p>\nI remember that, at a conference of the United Polish Genealogical Societies, a representative of the Family History Library showed\u00c2\u00a0the locations in Poland where\u00c2\u00a0the Library was planning to film records, and western Poland was on their schedule. With luck, S\u0105cz\u00f3w may be one of the parishes to be filmed in the near future.<\/p>\nTomorrow:<\/strong> How using gazetteers and maps together can help answer genealogical questions.<\/p>\nCopyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historical maps of Poland are easier and easier to come by on the web. Euratlas.com provides\u00c2\u00a0a series of maps\u00c2\u00a0of Europe through the past 2000 years, allowing the viewer to see how the map of Europe changed with time. While these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-maps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/37-50.jpg\"){kind=link}