Polonika w zbiorach państw nadbałtyckich na stronie internetowej Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych

In the holdings of AGAD are gathered and made available microfilms and photocopies of Polonica which originals are in foreign institutions. A database containing information about the content of this collection is available on the archives’ website. Data on over 4,750 documents of Polish provenance are gathered. Polonica’s originals that are available on microfilm and in photocopies are preserved in the collection of 107 institutions from 23 countries in Europe, Asia and North America, including archives and libraries of all the Baltic Sea countries, with the exception of Estonia. 2009 AGAD took up an initiative to systematize information about Polonica that are preserved in the collections of countries around the Baltic Sea, especially in the collections of the Swedish archives. It is a well-known fact that important part of the Polish archives were robbed and deported to Sweden during the Polish-Swedish wars. Only some of the archival materials were restored. Thanks to the openness of Swedish institutions it is possible to copy Polonica, and in this way to fill in the gaps in the holdings of Polish archives. Descriptions of archival digital copies of Polonica from archives, libraries and museums of the Baltic States will be collected in frame of a project implemented by AGAD The Electronic Repository of Polonica in the collections of the Baltic states. Its repository is available at the AGAD’s website. Currently the database contains information on Polonica and scans of documents from Riksarkivet in Stockholm and the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga.