Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
and the
Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
at Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv

Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People 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 boasts over millions of names organized in tens of thousands of family trees. These will be searchable online by the end of 2016. 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

Beit Hatfutsot is the only institution in Israel with a major collection of LDS microfilms. Volunteers at the Genealogy Center have already extracted more than 250,000 of these records and all entries are or will be available on the JRI-Poland database. The list of the microfilms available in Beit Hatfutsot may now be consulted on the museum's website in English and Hebrew. Researchers who know the year and exact Akt 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. Many thousands of vital records from Bedzin, Bialystok, Kraków, Tarnów, Warsaw, Siedlce, Rawa Mazowiecka, Sandomierz, Gora Kalwaria, Kozienice, Plonsk, Szrensk, Sobkow, Golub Dobrzyn, Ciepelow, Gniewoszow, Wolborz, Lowicz Sulmierzyce, Wloszczowa, Zakroczym, Radom, are now available on-line.

Data from the extracting project

Search results based on extracts from this project provide detailed information. Birth extracts include parents' ages, father's name and patronymic, mother's given name, mother's patronymic and/or maiden name. Death records 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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Visitors searching the Beit Hatfutsot database at the Study Area on the second floor of the Core Exhibition, Beit Hatfutsot

Visitors searching the Beit Hatfutsot database at the Study Area on the main lobby, Beit Hatfutsot