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| Go to [[Jewish Genealogy Research|Jewish Genealogy Research Main Page]]<br>Go to [[Poland|Poland Main Page]]
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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 here].
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| *For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click [[Jewish Population Maps|here]].
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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 here].
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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 here].<br>Definition of "Pale of Settlement" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement Wikipedia.org]:<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|here]].
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| *For a map showing Poland's current voivodeships (provinces), click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland#Administrative_divisions here].
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| === Gazetteers of Poland ===
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| *[http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp The JewishGen Communities Database]<br>The most comprehensive online database of historical Jewish communities.
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| *[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786 Skorowidz Poland Gazetteer 1934 - Online]<br>Also available at the Family History Library, Floor B1, in the reference book area.
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| *[http://kami.net.pl/kresy/ Poland's Eastern Borderlands Places]<br>An online gazeteer.
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| *[http://www.meyersgaz.org/ Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire]<br>An online gazetteer with excellent map links and identification of Jewish congregations (under "Ecclesiastical").
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| *[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp Kartenmeister.com]<br>Take an online FamilySearch course: [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/finding-places-in-the-former-german-areas-of-poland-using-the-online-gazetteer-kartenmeister-com/887 Finding Places in the Former German Areas of Poland Using the Online Gazetteer Kartenmeister.com]
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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 here].
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| *Take the [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html Poland Virtual Jewish History Tour].<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/ here]. 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 Records]] ===
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| *Read a FamilySearch Wiki article describing available Jewish records by clicking [[Poland Jewish Records|here]]. 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 here].
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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/ here] 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 here].
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| ===Jewish Records [''Akta żydowskie'']===
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| Research Use: Primary source.
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| Record Type: Records of vital events pertaining to the Jewish community. Chiefly these consist of transcript records created in accordance with the laws of each of the governments that controlled Poland after the partitioning. Prior to the introduction of civil transcript laws (and occasionally after), Jews were sometimes included in Christian church books. By the 1820s and 1830s many Jewish congregations were keeping their own distinct civil transcript records. In the former Russian territory, rabbis were designated as official registrars of Jewish civil transcripts after 1826. Austrian laws allowed Jews to maintain registers under Catholic supervision from 1789, but most Jewish registers date from the 1830s or later. Jewish records were not given the status of official legal documents in Austria until 1868. Other types of Jewish records include circumcision records, marriage contracts, as well as holocaust memorial records, There was little consistency to the keeping of birth, marriage, and death records which was by the whim of the local religious Jewish leaders until the introduction of civil transcript laws.
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| Time Period: 1600s to 1945. There is no clear date for the beginning of Jewish books.
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| Contents: Civil transcripts and/or civil registration [ksigi metrykalne wyznania mojeszowego]: record contents are similar to Christian civil transcripts described in the previous 3 sections: 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5. Circumcision records (mohalim books): given Hebrew male names of children, circumcision date (Hebrew calendar), father’s given Hebrew name, sometimes surname. Marriage contracts (Ketubbot): marriage date, names of groom and bride, contractual agreements. Death memorial records: names of deceased individuals and death date in Hebrew calendar with month and day but sometimes not year. Kahal records: Records of the Jewish governing bodies, including lists of those who voted for the head rabbi, lists of community inhabitants, etc.
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| Location: Most Jewish records are in Polish state archives; some are in various archives and libraries, city archives, museums and libraries. Many Jewish congregational records have been destroyed in the course of Jewish persecutions. Some may also be in Jewish libraries and archives in the United States and Israel.
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| Population Coverage: No statistics are available for Jews because of the sporadic nature of their record keeping.
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| Reliability: Very good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Poland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref>
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Jewish Records]]
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| [[Category:Jewish Research by Country, Region, and City]]
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