Vital records less than 100 years old are most often still in each town's town hall, and records more than 100 years old are at one of the Polish State Archives regional branches. After 100 years, the records are supposed to be transferred to one of the branches of the Polish State Archives. You can also visit the town hall in person. Records older than 100 years are held at the various branches of the Polish State Archives, but all correspondence should go through the main archive in Warsaw, which will forward your request to the respective regional archive where the records for each particular town are held. Dluga 6 Skr.
Responses usually take about six months.
There are no nation-wide indexes. See tips on Writing to Poland . However, this list is now out of date, since hundreds of new microfilms have been acquired since 1985. Here is a table of new microfilms filmed since 1985 to supplement the above-mentioned published list. Mormon microfilming at the Polish State Archives stopped in 1992.