Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
	The searchable database of indices to 19th century Jewish vital records from current and former territories of Poland. More thanrecords fromPolish towns now indexed and available. More added every month.

JRI - Poland Krakow Shtetl Co-op Project

The Krakow Shtetl Co-op project is well underway. Now over 64,000 entries of Krakow birth, marriage and death records from LDS microfilms are included in the JRI-Poland's on-line searchable database.

The following records have been indexed:

Film No. 0718920  1830-1839 marriages
Film No. 0718917  1850-1854 births
Film No. 1895664  1879 births, marriages & deaths
Film No. 1895665  1880 births, marriages & deaths
                  1881 marriages
                  1882 marriages & deaths
Film No. 1895666  1883 - 1885 marriages
Film No. 1895667  1887, 1889 births

The JRI-Poland Krakow Shtetl CO-OP initiative thanks Howard Fink, Sid Gelb, Shala Rossheim and Itzik Shulder without whom this submission wouldn't have been possible.

Databases have been created for records pre-dating surnames. They are as follows:

1795 Census, 1798-1805 Births, 1798-1805 Marriages, 1802 List of Homeowners

The databases were created to facilitate identification of family surnames. One week ago the databases were distributed to a small number of Krakow researchers. The response has been tremendous. You can see the results for yourselves. But, most importantly, this is a research project and we want your input.

Dan Hirschberg was kind enough to post the files at the following web site:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Krakow

Please visit the web site and download the files and then send whatever surnames you have managed to identify, along with how you identified these surnames, to Judie Goldstein. She is the coordinator for the project. Once a month this information will be sent to Dan in order to up-date the web site.

This site is not in competition to JRI-Poland, nor is it meant to be a searchable database. This site is to enable us to research pre-surname data and put surnames to our Krakow families. Once we have enough names identified, these databases will be sent to JRI-Poland. At this time, we need information to add to the census, birth and marriage data.

Another area you are encouraged to visit is the Shtetlinks Krakow site !

We are looking for surname input - any clues you can find - any bits or pieces - any pointers for making this easier.

Please send in your family surnames or any other surnames that you can identify. If you have any questions, please send them to Judie.

Judie Goldstein
Coordinator Krakow Shtetl CO-OP initiative
JRI-Poland