Announcing: Newly Extracted Jędrzejów Source Documentation 1886-1933

JRI-Poland is pleased to announce the completion of the full extraction of all data from Jewish pages in all seven surviving volumes of the Jędrzejów Books of Permanent Residents (BoPR). 

Books of Permanent Residents (BoPR) are population registers that provide a “text snapshot” of individuals affiliated with the town, by household, alive at the time the data were collected, regardless of in which town the individual physically lived. Permanent residency was inherited through the father (or single mother) and typically a wife assumed her husband’s permanent residency (if different from hers) when she married.

Professionally extracted details include name (male or female designation), date and town of birth, parentage, occupation, prior town of birth, religion and the translation of all notes. With over 860 Jewish households, Jędrzejów is listed in 57% of the entries as town-of-birth, with more than 300 different villages and towns comprising the balance. Unlike other town BoPRs, different households were entered on the same page, including of different religion.

Spanning 1886-1933, the books are organized by house number which do not correlate to street addresses. The earliest year-of-birth for a resident was for a butcher named Aron KOZUBSKI, born in Wodzisław in 1806. He was married and moved to Jędrzejów with his wife and daughter. His death in 1886 was recorded, so he made it into the book just in time. The Polish index book for the BoPR survived, but Aron does not appear: the only names included in the Index were those permanent residents alive at the time of indexing, underscoring the value of fully extracting each volume page-by-page.

Jędrzejów residents registered events from 1826 in the town of Wodzisław until 1875 when the town started to maintain its own civil register books so there is a close connection between the two towns. All records from both towns have been extracted by JRI-Poland, and complement the data found in the Jędrzejów BoPR. The project’s goal is to raise $2,690 and to-date we have raised $ 460. Your help would be greatly appreciated!

To make a donation to the Jedrzejow BoPR project, please use this donation form on the Jedrzejow Town page on the JRI-Poland website: https://www.jri-poland.org/town/jedrzejow/

Judy Golan

JRI-Poland Jedrzejow Town Leader

JRI-Poland Kielce-Radom-Sandomierz-Grojec Area Coordinator