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Starting a Shtetl CO-OP to index the records for other
towns:
JewishGenners wanting easy access to the indices of vital
records for their towns are being urged to form their own Shtetl CO-OPs.
JRI-Poland will provide the procedures for photocopying, transliteration
where necessary, and data entry. Here's how to get your Shtetl CO-OP
underway:
Start by identifying other researchers with a common interest in the
town (the JewishGen Family Finder lists these researchers), agree on a
project leader or - better still - don't wait for someone else to accept
the responsibility, you take the initiative (sound familiar!) and get your
Shtetl CO-OP going.... this week!
JRI-Poland is extending a special incentive to those who accept the
responsibility of becoming Shtetl CO-OP project leaders. By agreeing to
coordinate the entire effort to index all their town's records in the LDS
microfilms, these volunteers will be granted official access to the
resulting database of indices to these records. This offer will be
extended to towns which have only been partially indexed. To view a list
of the towns/records already on the JRI-Poland database, click the
"database contents" button on the JRI-Poland website.
To register your interest in being a Shtetl CO-OP project leader for
your town, contact: Hadassah
Lipsius
For more information on JRI-Poland, please see the website Home Page.
Other major initiatives underway
Zareby Koscielne (Zaromb) Initiative
Through unusual circumstances, the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw,
has come into possession of the Jewish birth, marriage and death registers
for Zareby Koscielne for the years 1808 - 1809 and 1840 to 1939! Using
these and other years in the LDS microfilms (1810 - 1839), JRI-Poland has
created a complete searchable index of the vital records from 1808 to
1939. This is unparalled in Jewish vital records research for any Polish
town. Almost 10,000 records for this town are now available through the
JRI-Poland search engine.
Because of marriages between families in surrounding towns and shtetels, the Zareby Koscielne vital records will have references to SURNAMES from Zambrow, Ostrow Maz., Nur, Brok, Kosov, Czyzew, Ciechanowiec, Przasnysz, and other former Lomza Gubernia locations.
The Zareby Koscielne Shtetl CO-OP project was led by Morris Spector of
Hamden, For further information, contact Morris:
Morris Spector
Zareby Koscielne
Project Coordinator
P.O. Box 6132
Hamden, CT
06517
203-288-2816
203-281-0316 (fax)
For further information see
the website.
Wyszków Jewish Vital Records and Cemetery Monument Project
For further information on this initiative, click here.
Kielce-Radom Project:
Volunteers in the Kielce-Radom SIG are working on extracts of records of additional towns; a list may be viewed on the K-R SIG website. When completed, the indices to these extracts will be added to JRI-Poland database.
For more information on becoming a Shtetl CO-OP leader, please contact Shtetl CO-OP and Transliteration Co-ordinator, Hadassah Lipsius.
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