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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 |
| 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 |