Launched in early 1995, JRI - Poland is the largest fully searchable database of indexes to Jewish vital records accessible online.

4.5 million records from more than 500 Polish towns are now indexed. More are being added every few months.

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Jewish Records Indexing - Poland today announced the "Surname Distribution Mapper" - a tool designed to help genealogy researchers graphically understand where their family names first appeared in the 19th century records and visualize how the family spread throughout Poland by decades from the early 1800s into the first part of the 20th century.

Stanley Diamond, JRI-Poland executive director, described the new feature as follows: Using modern mapping technology, the Surname Distribution Mapper allows users to graphically display their search results using a tree icon to indicate the number of entries found for a surname in a town's vital and other records. By running the cursor over each tree icon, a user can view a popup window displaying the number of vital record entries found in various towns in the JRI-Poland database. Clicking on the balloon brings the user to the familiar JRI-Poland search results for detailed viewing of a town's entries. [read more]

Previous Announcements:

	JRI-Poland adopts Log-In system for database searches
	JRI-Poland / Who Do You Think You Are? TV Series

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