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JRI-Poland Project Volunteer Guides

• JRI-Poland Transliteration Standards
• JRI-Poland Indexing Techniques
• JRI-Poland’s Guide to Adding Image Links to the Polish AGAD Digital Archives (.PDF)
• JRI-Poland’s Guide to Adding Image Links to the Polish National Digital Archives (.PDF)

Language Resources

• A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents
• In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Russian Documents
• Polish Words and Terms Found in Documents
• A Guide to Headings of 19th Century Galician Jewish Vital Record Forms (.PDF)
• Polish Family Relationship Terms
• Composing Letters to Polish Repositories (Polish Genealogical Society of America)
• Polish Letter Writing Guide (Family Search)
• Guide to Reading Letters from the Archives in Poland
• Burt’s Polish-English Dictionary, 1900 and click the “Read online” button
• Chodzko’s Polish-English Dictionary, 1910
• English-Polish Medical Dictionary
• Pronouncing names of Polish towns
• DeepL – Alternate Polish-English Online Translation Tool

Geography Resources

• Polish Distance Calculator with map
• Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries (Scanned pages in Polish)
• Polish Geographical Dictionary: Translated descriptions of Polish villages and provinces
• Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries
• Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe
• FamilySearch Microfilm Master: find the nearest town to your small shtetl that has Jewish records
• 1820-1827 Map of Kingdom of Poland
• Gesher Galicia Map Room – Historic maps of Poland and Galicia

Academic Papers Utilizing Polish Records and JRI-Poland Data

• Reading Between The Lines: Mining Jewish History Through Extraction of Polish Archive Data (Judy Golan)
• Family and Kinship in the Jewish City of Piotrków Trybunalski in the 19th Century (Tomasz Jankowski)
• A Genealogical History of the Jews of Pinczow (Poland) in the 18th & 19th centuries (Heshel Teitelbaum)

Other Reference Resources

• Find a FamilySearch Center
• FamilySearch Polish Jewish Microfilm List
• Vital Records in Poland
• Polish-Jewish Genealogy – Questions and Answers
• JRI-Poland’s Guide to Using the Polish National Digital Archives (.PDF)
• Viewing Original Documents Posted on the Polish State Archives Web Site (.PDF)
• The Slownik Nazwisk is Online (Dictionary of Surnames Currently Used in Poland)
• Search historical directories on “Genealogy Indexer” site
• The Polish Postal Service (a brief history)
• Polish Notary Records (.PDF)
• Sources on the Holocaust in Occupied Poland (.PDF)
• Identifying Gravestones with only Patronymics (.PDF)