Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
and the
Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
at Beth Hatefutsoth - The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv

Beth Hatefutsoth - The Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, is actively documenting Jewish communities, past and present. The Museum's goal is to gather and create visual and written documentation to preserve Jewish heritage. Within this larger program, the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center provides genealogists with the opportunity to record their life's work for safekeeping, and to make it available to future generations. Jewish genealogy is not just a hobby, but also the means to an end - the preservation of Jewish family heritage for posterity

The database of the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center is currently approaching 2,000,000 names organized in more than 6,000 family trees. Search orders of the genealogy database may be sent by filling out a "Search Order Online" linked from the home page.   In addition to the database of family trees, the Genealogy Center has a reference library and an extensive collection of LDS microfilms of birth, marriage and death records from Poland.

LDS (Mormon) Microfilms

Beth Hatefutsoth is the only institution in Israel and the only Jewish institution in the world with a major collection of LDS microfilms. Volunteers at the Genealogy Center have already extracted more than 150,000 of these records and all entries are or will be available on the JRI-Poland database. The list of the microfilms available in Beth Hatefutsoth may now be consulted on the museum's website in English and Hebrew along with the list of microfilms that have already been translated into English. All microfilms may be examined during the open hours of the museum (by appointment only). Researchers who know the year and exact act number of the document may order a photocopy by filling out a separate order form online - Order LDS Records

Realizing the enormous value of these records to family historians, the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center initiated a project to create extracts of the information for a number of towns in the collection. In the spirit of goodwill that characterizes the world of Jewish genealogy and family history research, the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center has shared this data with JRI-Poland. Copies of the large hand-written ledger sheets have been sent to JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OPs for data entry and information from thousands of vital records from Bedzin, Bialystok, Kraków, Tarnów, and Warsaw is now available on line.

The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center - Beth Hatefutsoth

Data from the extracting project

Search results based on extracts from this project provide considerably more information than that included in other JRI - Poland searches. In addition to the usual fields, the birth extracts often include other facts available in the records such as parents' ages, father's name and patronymic, mother's given name, mother's patronymic and/or maiden name. Death records will have the age at death as well as parents' names, the name of the surviving spouse and sometimes the names of children 'left behind.' Marriages include the ages of the couple, place of residence, parents' names, etc. For Warsaw, the city district will also be noted.

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