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 === [http://jri-poland.org/kr-sig/krsig_town_records_in_all_issues.htm Kielce-Radom SIG Journal]  ===
 A link to a list of indexed towns from the Kielce-Radom area. For many years, the Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group has been indexed Jewish vital records from that area of Poland, publishing the data in their printed Journal. These indexes have been now merged into the [http://jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm JRI Poland database].
-===Jewish Records [''Akta żydowskie'']===
-Research Use: Primary source.
-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.
-Time Period: 1600s to 1945. There is no clear date for the beginning of Jewish books.
-Contents: Civil transcripts and/or civil registration [ksigi metrykalne wyznania mojeszowego]: 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.
-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.
-Population Coverage: No statistics are available for Jews because of the sporadic nature of their record keeping.
-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>
-[[Image:Rozan town square.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rozan town square.jpg]]
-Historians estimate that during the 19th century more than 85 percent of the world’s Jews lived in Europe.
-Most of these lived in Poland and Russia. Many books have been written about Jews in Poland. You can often find these in a public or university library.
-The Family History Library has microfilmed many Jewish records in Poland and is continually adding to the collection. There are extensive records from the former Russian and German areas of Poland, but fewer for the Austrian areas of Poland. For those areas not yet microfilmed, you may write to the local civil registration office.
-At first Jews were included in Catholic civil registers. The earliest civil registration of Polish Jews was in the former Austrian territory of Galicia in 1787, but it was not enforced until the mid-19th century. The Duchy of Warsaw, which later constituted the Russian territory of Poland, began civil registration in 1808. In areas of Prussian rule, Jews were required to prepare transcripts of vital records beginning in the early 1800s. Microfilmed civil records are usually available to 1875. You may obtain information regarding records not filmed&nbsp;that are still in Poland by writing to the headquarters of the Polish State Archives (see [[Poland Archives and Libraries]]). Here is a fast link to [http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.php?l=en&search=1&wyznanie_id=19&f=0 all Jewish records] found in Polish State Archives.
-For further information about Jewish research see the Internet site:
-[http://www.jewishgen.org/ www.JewishGen.org]
-Also see [[Jewish Genealogy Research]].
-For information regarding locations of Polish Jewish records, see:
-Weiner, Miriam. ''Jewish Roots in Poland, Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories.'' New York, New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1997. (FHL book 943.8 F2wm.)
 == Jewish Vital Records in Russian Poland (Congress Poland, Kingdom of Poland)  ==