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| Go to [[Jewish Genealogy Research|Jewish Genealogy Research Main Pag[[Category:Jewish records]]]<br>Go to [[Poland|Poland Main Pag[[Category:Jewish records]]]
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| === Maps of Poland ===
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| *To view present-day Poland at Google Maps, click [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=poland&hl=en&ll=51.917168,19.160156&spn=12.211657,33.815918&sll=55.166319,23.884277&sspn=5.650241,16.907959&hnear=Poland&t=m&z=6 her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| *For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click [[Jewish Population Maps|her[[Category:Jewish records]]].
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| *For a map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905, click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_percentage_of_Jews_in_the_Pale_of_Settlement_and_Congress_Poland,_c._1905.png her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| *To view an additional historical map showing the historical percentage of Jews in governments, click [http://books.google.com/books?id=sr85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=%22percentage+of+jews+in+governments%22+map&source=bl&ots=BK42kcedcz&sig=Eb1EvyRT9xaaOxNAlNit1-q2_yU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PcwMU5-xMcGBogTyqYKABg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22percentage%20of%20jews%20in%20governments%22%20map&f=false her[[Category:Jewish records]].<br>Definition of "Pale of Settlement" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement Wikipedia.or[[Category:Jewish records]]:<br>"The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта́ осе́длости, chertá osédlosti, Yiddish: דער תּחום-המושבֿ, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv, Hebrew: תְּחוּם הַמּוֹשָב, tḥùm ha-mosháv) was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited. It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line, to the western Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and with Austria-Hungary. The English term 'pale' is derived from the Latin word 'palus,' a stake, extended to mean the area enclosed by a fence or boundary."
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| *To view historical maps of Poland, click [[Poland Maps#Historical_Maps_of_Poland|her[[Category:Jewish records]]].
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| *For a map showing Poland's current voivodeships (provinces), click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland#Administrative_divisions her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| === Gazetteers of Poland ===
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| *Use the JewishGen Communities Database by clicking [http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| *Skorowidz Poland Gazetteer 1934
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| **For the online version, click [http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786 her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| **Also available at the Family History Library, Floor B1, in the reference book area.
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| *Kartenmeister.com
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| **Take the online FamilySearch course '''''Finding Places in the Former German Areas of Poland Using the Online Gazetteer Kartenmeister.com''''' by clicking [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/finding-places-in-the-former-german-areas-of-poland-using-the-online-gazetteer-kartenmeister-com/887 her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| **Go directly to ''Kartenmeister.com'' by clicking [http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| === History of the Jews in Poland ===
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| *To read the Wikipedia.org article ''History of the Jews in Poland'', click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| *Take the [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html Poland Virtual Jewish History Tou[[Category:Jewish records]].<br>"Before the outbreak of World War II, more than 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland, the largest Jewish population of Europe and second largest Jewish community in the world. Poland served as the center for Jewish culture and a diverse population of Jews from all over Europe sought refuge there, contributing to a wide variety of religious and cultural groups. Barely 11% of Poland's Jews - 369,000 people -survived the war. Today, approximately 3,200 Jews remain in Poland."
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| *To visit the Galicia Jewish Museum online click [http://www.en.galiciajewishmuseum.org/ her[[Category:Jewish records]]. The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.
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| === [[Poland Jewish Record[[Category:Jewish records]]] ===
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| *Read a FamilySearch Wiki article describing available Jewish records by clicking [[Poland Jewish Records|her[[Category:Jewish records]]]. Includes great links!
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| === The JewishGen Poland Database ===
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| *More than five million records for Poland, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, business directories, voter lists, passenger manifests, Yizkor books and other Holocaust sources. A joint project of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen. ''Requires free registration.'' To search, click [http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/#Poland her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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| === Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation ===
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| *For ''A Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe'', click [http://www.rtrfoundation.org/ her[[Category:Jewish records]] and '''hover over Poland'''.
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| *See also the book, ''Jewish roots in Poland'' by Miriam Weiner<br>FamilySearch Catalog Number 943.8 F2wm
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| === Help with Poland Jewish Research ===
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| *The following JewishGen Special Interest Groups (SIGs) includes links, helps, and other resources to help with Jewish Research in Poland:
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| **[http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/BialyGen/ Białystok Region SIG]<br>The city of Białystok and nearby towns and villages, currently in Poland, formerly in the Russian Empire's Grodno Gubernia.
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| **[http://www.jewishgen.org/Danzig/ Danzig/Gdańsk SIG]<br>Danzig/Gdańsk, and its precursor communities of Alt Schottland, Langfuhr, Mattenbuden, Weinberg, and Danzig in der Breitgasse, and Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański).
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| **[http://www.geshergalicia.org/ Gesher Galicia SIG]<br>Austrian Poland, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1917, now in southern Poland and western Ukraine.
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| **[http://www.jewishgen.org/GerSIG/ German-Jewish SIG]<br>Germany and German-speaking areas of Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Poland.
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| **[http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/LARG.htm Łódź area SIG]<br>The city of Łódź, Poland, and localities within a 40-mile radius – in Congress Poland's gubernias of Piotrków, Płock, Warszawa, or Kalisz.
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| **[http://www.jewishgen.org/SuwalkLomza/ Suwalk-Łomza SIG]<br>Publisher of Landsmen, covering these two northeastern gubernias of Russian Poland, now in northeast Poland and southwest Lithuania.
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| **[http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/WarszawaGroup.html Warszawa SIG]<br>The capital city of Poland, Warszawa (Warsaw).
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| *Get ideas and help with the Facebook Polish Genealogy Research Community [https://www.facebook.com/PolandGenealogy her[[Category:Jewish records]].
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