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Every Record Counts

Family historians researching the lives of their ancestors in Poland have marveled at what they have learned as a result of the remarkable number of Jewish records of Poland that have survived the upheavals of history and the ravages of war.

And the mission of Jewish Records Indexing – Poland is to safeguard that evidence of the 1000-year-old Jewish presence in current and former territories of Poland.

The JRI-Poland database serves the greater genealogical community, and academics, journalists and novelists have researched the database for major contributions to their articles, stories and books.

And in doing so, they have sought to get the facts right.  JRI-Poland has contributed to their opportunity to do just that. 

In 2016, JRI-Poland provided documents to the Guinness World Records to prove that Yisroel Kristal was the oldest man in the world.  And,