How to find graves in Poland

Some grave finders online for Polish cemeteries:

• Warsaw
• Krakow
• Łódź - still looking for one
• Wroclaw
• Poznan
• Gdansk
• Szczecin
• Bydgoszcz - still looking for one
• Lublin - still looking for one
• Katowice
• Białystok - still looking for one
• Gdynia
• Częstochowa - still looking for one
• Radom - still looking for one
• Sosnowiec - still looking for one
• Toruń - still looking for one
• Kielce

If any of these links fail to take you to an online search form, let me know. Things change.

Also try this page and select a city from the right column. It is very hit and miss from what I've seen. For one city it gave great results, but for another city it turned up nothing.

To Google for other sites like this, try searching for something like:
wyszukiwarka nagrobków cityname

Tips:

• Szukaj = Search (the button to start the search)
• Nazwisko = last name
• Imię = first name
• Data urodzenia = date of birth
  Most full dates are entered in rrrr-mm-dd format ("r" = "rok" = "y" = "year")
• Data lub rok urodzenia = date (full) or year of birth
• Data zgonu = date of death
• Data lub rok zgonu = date (full) or year of death
• Data pochowania = date of burial
• Zaznacz jeśli wprowadziłeś całe nazwisko = Select the check box if you have entered the entire name. If you clear this check box, you can enter a partial name such as "Kowal" to match "Kowal" and "Kowalski" and "Kowalczyk" and so on. Use "Kowalsk" to match "Kowalski" (male form of the name) and "Kowalska" (female form of the name).
• Zaznacz by wprowadzić datę urodzenia = Select the check box to enter the date of birth
• Data urodzenia OD [date] DO date = Date of birth FROM [date] TO [date] (so you can specify a date range for birth date)
• Data zgonu OD [date] DO date = Date of death FROM [date] TO [date] (so you can specify a date range for death date)
• Zaznacz by wprowadzić datę zgonu = Select the check box to enter the date of death
• Rok zgonu (przedział maks. 20 lat) = Year of death (range up to 20 years)
• Cmentarz = Cemetery
• Nr kwatery = Number of the quarter (section) of the cemetery
• Rząd = Row
• Nr grobu: = Number of the grave
• Data urodzenia = Date of birth
• Data zgonu = Date of death
• Data pochówku = Date of burial

What you won't find (in Gdansk, anyway): many Germans or Jews. After the war, their graves were allowed to disintegrate or were actively destroyed. Many entire cemeteries are now just parks with no markers other than a single stone explaining that this park used to be a cemetery.