Finding your Eastern European Family on JRI-Poland.org

Come learn to use the JRI-Poland.org database effectively to find data about your family. See it within the context of the town and Jewish community in which your family lived if they lived in the current or former territories of Poland. These include over 1900 towns represented on the JRI-Poland website for places once in Poland and possibly in Ukraine, Germany, Belarus, or Lithuania today. If your family said they were from “Russia” or “Galicia” or “Austria-Hungary” or “Prussia”, chances are that there is something in the JRI-Poland database waiting for you to discover!

Robinn Magid is the assistant director of JRI-Poland.org and the project manager of the NextGen project to rebuild their website and database of more than 6 million records. She has been volunteering for JRI-Poland for almost 30 years and speaks about Polish Jewish research frequently. Robinn has chaired two landmark International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) conferences: the 2018 Warsaw Conference and the 2020 Virtual Conference. She is a recipient of the IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award and received a medal from the mayor of her grandmother’s birthplace (Lublin, Poland) for her contributions to furthering culture in this city of 340,000 people on the occasion of the town’s 700th birthday.