Jewish Records Indexing Poland - Geographical Regions

Geographic Regions

Narrowing Your Geographic Search

Searching by a geographical region is one way to focus your search in the general area where your ancestors lived. (Or you can use geographical coordinates.)

It is important to note that there is some data in the JRI-Poland database that is not referenced to any geographical area (the data in these collections comprise a broad area that covers many Gubernia/Wojewodztwa). For these collections, such as the Monitor Polski data and Polish Aliyah Passports, you must search the entire database – do not narrow your search by geographic region or coordinates.

Looking up your town in JRI-Poland’s Your Town section will provide you with the name of the Gubernia where your town was located during the period when most of the records in the database were recorded. For Galician researchers, there is currently no master list of Wojewodztwa where your towns were located. JRI-Poland’s Your Town section will be updated to capture this information.

Below is a list of the Gubernia and Wojewodztwa where entries in the JRI-Poland database can be found:

Country/Region	Gubernia/ Wojewodztwa	Main Towns
Congress Poland	Kalisz	Kalisz, Kolo, Piatek, Wieruszow
	Kielce	Checiny, Kielce, Stopnica
	Lomza	Grajewo, Lomza, Ostrow Mazowiecka, Szczuczyn, Tykocin
	Lublin	Chelm, Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Zamosc
	Piotrkow	Czestochowa, Lodz, Piotrkow, Tomaszow Mazowiecka
	Plock	Ciechanow, Mlawa, Plock, Plonsk, Przasnysz
	Radom	Ilza, Opatow, Radom
	Siedlce	Biala Podlaski, Siedlce, Sokolow Podlaski
	Suwalki	Augustow, Mariampol, Sejny, Suwalki
	Warszawa	Gora Kalwaria, Pultusk, Radzymin, Warszawa
Russian Pale of Settlement	Grodno	Bialystok
Russian Pale of Settlement	Volhynia	Kremenets
Austrian Galicia	Krakow	Krakow, Tarnow
	Lwow	Drohobycz, Lwow, Przemysl, Rzeszow, Sambor
	Stanislawow	Horodenka, Kolomyja, Stanislawow, Stryj
	Tarnopol	Brzezany, Jagielnica, Skalat, Tarnopol, Zloczow
Prussia		Bytom, Gliwice, Wroclaw, Torun

Surviving records less than 100 years old are held in the Civil Records Offices (Urzad Stanu Cywilnego) of each town.

For information on the 20th century records available for your town, visit the Routes to Roots Foundation website, click on the 'SEARCH DATABASE' button (on the right side) and enter the town name. Look for the town name in the Repository/City column of the search results. There are typically links to lists of available births, marriage and death records for the town.

Note, however, the Routes to Roots Foundation database may indicate turn of the century records that have already been transferred to the appropriate branch of the Polish State Archives where they can be indexed for the JRI-Poland database.

JRI-Poland is an independent non-profit tax-exempt Organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.

For all general inquiries about JRI-Poland activities and indexing, address email to: questions@JRI-Poland.org
For specific town information, write to [TownName]@jri-poland.org
For information about towns in close proximity, write to MultipleTowns@JRI-Poland.org
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