Ancestors in Zyrardow - to anyone seeking their fathers

Here  (link) is a blog entry by someone seeking ancestors in Zyrardow and a report from visiting the town. In the beginning of 20th century, emigration from the town was common. There is quite concise summary of the Zyrardow history and its founder, Philippe de Girard.


Pod linkiem znajduje się wpis na blogu emigranta z USA, który odwiedził Żyrardów jako miejsce pochodzenia swoich przodków. Jest tam też krótka historia Żyrardowa i Filipa de Girarda. Jest też wniosek o obywatelstwo z wpisanym miejscem pochodzenia.

RE: To anyone seeking ancestors in Zyrardow

It seems people are interested in their ancestry. In the following forum entry someone asks for translation of a marriage record. The request has been fulfilled only on the same day by a fellow genealogy forum member.

To anyone interested, Zyrardow Marriage Records are available online in a digitized form. Up to 1893, the events were registered only in Wiskitki parish / town - Zyrardow was newly built. You may start seeking here - all scans are grouped by year.

You may be surprised, that the entries can be in variety of languages:  latin (and polish), german, russian and polish - in this order, according to the states to which the town belonged.

After 1893, the municipal records were held in Zyrardow and their dumps can be found here.

If you know the faith of your ancestors, seeking can be narrowed as all books were kept separately for catholics (majority), evangelists, baptists and Jews. This applies to Zyrardow for all time, as well as to Wiskitki, but only after a certain year in the 19th century - according to the denomination / religion.

Digitised Zyrardow record books are avaliable

Someone worked a lot and copied the record books to the computer. Birth, death and marriage dates are available. Books were kept separately by the town hall and by each religion.

Click to search.