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SUMMARY:Finding the Original Source Documents - A How To Guide
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn the in’s and out’s of how to find your document of interest on the Internet (if it is there). JRI-Poland veteran researchers\, Hadassah Lipsius and Robinn Magid team up for this special Members Only event to show you what to do to search for and hopefully locate images of your family’s original source document once you’ve found it in the JRI-Poland search results. Topics covered will include what to do if it is NOT clickable from the JRI-Poland database including how to find records on the Polish State Archives publicly accessible website\, and additional websites that may be available. We will also cover your available options if you discover that your precious document is not available online. The 90 minute session will include approximately 50% presentation time and ample Question & Answer Time and will be recorded for addition to our JRI-Poland Video Library for the exclusive use of our members. \n(A JRI-Poland member is someone who donates $54 US specifically for the purpose of Membership and is necessary to support our General Fund. It is separate and distinct from a gift to our specific projects such as our Town Funds or NextGen Fund. All are necessary to our success helping you – but Membership is a relatively new way to support us.) \nThis session will be presented two times to accommodate our viewers around the globe since we expect a lot of questions. Each session has a separate sign up\, yet it is possible to sign up for more than one. If you have any problems or questions\, please use the Tawk.to Chat Widget for quick response. (It resembles a cartoon chat bubble with a smile and is located at the bottom right of most screens of our website.) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/finding-the-original-source-documents-a-how-to-guide/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241208T130000
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SUMMARY:Finding the Original Source Documents - A How To Guide
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn the in’s and out’s of how to find your document of interest on the Internet (if it is there). This will be the second of two identical sessions\, planned separately to accommodate our members around the globe… JRI-Poland veteran researchers\, Hadassah Lipsius and Robinn Magid team up for this special Members Only event to show you what to do to search for and hopefully locate images of your family’s original source document once you’ve found it in the JRI-Poland search results. Topics covered will include what to do if it is NOT clickable from the JRI-Poland database including how to find records on the Polish State Archives publicly accessible website\, and additional websites that may be available. We will also cover your available options if you discover that your precious document is not available online. The 90 minute session will include approximately 50% presentation time and ample Question & Answer Time and will be recorded for addition to our JRI-Poland Video Library for the exclusive use of our members. \n(A JRI-Poland member is someone who donates $54 US specifically for the purpose of Membership and is necessary to support our General Fund. It is separate and distinct from a gift to our specific projects such as our Town Funds or NextGen Fund. All are necessary to our success helping you – but Membership is a relatively new way to support us.) \nThis session will be presented two times to accommodate our viewers around the globe since we expect a lot of questions. Each session has a separate sign up\, yet it is possible to sign up for more than one. If you have any problems or questions\, please use the Tawk.to Chat Widget for quick response. (It resembles a cartoon chat bubble with a smile and is located at the bottom right of most screens of our website.) \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/finding-the-original-source-documents-a-how-to-guide-2/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T143000
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SUMMARY:Discovering & Understanding Family Registration Cards
DESCRIPTION:In 1928\, each Polish town was obliged by law to register all domiciles. This was done using Family Registration Cards (FRCs). These cards were later used by the Germans and then by the new administration in the first years after World War ll. Many cards survived in state archives and local museums. To study their value\, Dr. Klauzinska extracted and analyzed more than 6\,500 FRCs of Jews from her hometown of Zduńska Wola. She will share her analysis and findings such as the community’s pre-war size\, range of professions\, population structure and dynamics. \nKnowing the German occupation forces used these cards\, Dr. Klauzinska was also able to examine them for what they reveal about Jewish life during the war in the ghetto. Based on her research\, Dr. Klauzinska will provide recommendations for JRI-Poland’s members wishing to study FRC data from ancestral towns throughout Poland. \nThis is a members only event\, for JRI-Poland users who have contributed $54 annually for this specific purpose. Please join us as a JRI-Poland member by using the MY PROFILE option on the drop down menu when hovering over the “HELLO” blurb on any JRI-Poland webpage. \nKamila Klauzinska has a PhD from the Department of Jewish Studies\, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow\, Poland. Her PhD dissertation focused on Modern Jewish genealogy for which she was awarded a research prize from the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy. Her M.A. thesis focused on the Jewish cemetery in Zdunska Wola. Dr. Klauzinska was a Visiting Scholar in a number of prominent institutions\, including the Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, USA (2011).  In 2010 she was awarded the Bronze Medal For Merits to Culture “Gloria Artis” by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/discovering-understanding-family-registration-cards/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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SUMMARY:JRI-Poland Book Club with Daniel Mendelsohn - Author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million"
DESCRIPTION:Join JRI-Poland’s new Book Club for a discussion with the author\, Daniel Mendelsohn! \nThere’s still plenty of time to read “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million”\, the story of Mendelsohn’s amazing search for information about his great-uncle Samuel (Shmiel) Jäger. \nThe Lost has won the National Jewish Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States and the Prix Medicis in France. Mendelsohn teaches Literature at Bard College and is Editor-at-Large of the New York Review of Books. \nJRI-Poland Book Club Meetings are open to JRI-Poland members only. A JRI-Poland member is someone who donates $54 annually for that specific purpose. It is not a part of a donation to a town specific project. To become a JRI-Poland member or to check your membership status\, log into the JRI-Poland.org website\, hover over the HELLO blurb at the top of any of our website’s pages\, and you will see a drop down menu. Choose the MY PROFILE option to update your membership. \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/jri-poland-book-club-with-daniel-mendelson-author-of-the-lost-a-search-for-six-of-the-six-million/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T213000
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CREATED:20250320T205755Z
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SUMMARY:The Basics of Using the JRI-Poland Website
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a detailed tour of the essential features and the latest additions to the JRI-Poland website. This 90 minute session is designed for the new or casual user who craves an introduction to using the JRI-Poland website to its highest potential – quickly and easily. \nEven experienced JRI-Poland users can benefit from this session on how to use the newer features of our system and what our next new additions of features and data will be. \n\nSpecial emphasis will be placed on how best to communicate with our volunteers.\nThis session is open to any JRI-Poland registered user.\n\nCome get oriented. Come get your questions answered. We’d love to have you join us in what is sure to be a lively and friendly session. \nLed by Robinn Magid\, JRI-Poland president and NextGen Project Manager. \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/the-basics-of-using-the-jri-poland-website/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T213000
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SUMMARY:JRI-Poland Book Club Meeting #2 - "The Keeper of Hidden Books" by Madeline Martin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next JRI-Poland Book Club Meeting! \nLed by JRI-Poland board members Hadassah Lipsius and Judy Baston\, the book club’s next Zoom meeting will be held on Monday\, November 3rd at 8 pm Eastern. It will feature special guest\, Madeline Martin\, award-winning author of the book we are reading\, “The Keeper of Hidden Books”. \nPublished in 2023\, this work of historical fiction reveals the real-life perils faced by Warsaw’s heroic librarians during World War II. Booklovers will savor this story focusing on one librarian and the people and books that she works to save. A highly relatable book for genealogists\, The Keeper of Hidden Books was nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Award and is a national and international bestseller. \nThe book can be found here: \nThe Keeper of Hidden Books \n \nPlease note that participants in the Book Group must be dues-paying members of JRI-Poland. You can check your membership status by logging into the JRI-Poland.org website and checking the status bubble just under the “HELLO” message at the top of your screen. Hovering over the “HELLO” message will invoke a drop-down menu with the option called “MY PROFILE” where you can join if you have not yet by paying $54 annual dues. \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/jri-poland-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T123322
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Family's Hometown: A Guide for the Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:We realize that our website supposes that you have a good idea of the town(s) that your family came from – but what if you don’t? \nJoin us either Thursday\, November 13th at 8 pm Eastern or Sunday\, November 16th at 12 pm Eastern for a 90-minute interactive discussion with JRI-Poland president\, Robinn Magid\, focusing on Finding Your Family’s Hometown. The two sessions have different sign ups. You are welcome to attend either or both. \nThis is the signup for the THURSDAY\, November 13th event. \nWe receive a fair number of questions from people who: \n\nOnly know that their family came from “Russia”\, “Austria” or “Russian Poland”;\nCannot find “their town” on a map;\nThink that the town “no longer exists”;\nAre unsure why they cannot find their family name in the town they expect;\nHave never found a family document in the JRI-Poland database.\n\nIf any of these cases describe you\, please join us and we’ll do our best to help each other! \nPlease note that participants in this session must be dues-paying members of JRI-Poland. You can check your membership status by logging into the JRI-Poland.org website and checking the status bubble just under the “HELLO” message at the top of your screen. Hovering over the “HELLO” message will invoke a drop-down menu with the option called “MY PROFILE” where you can join if you have not yet by paying $54 annual dues. \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/finding-your-familys-hometown-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T123322
CREATED:20250917T022117Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Family's Hometown: A Guide for the Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:We realize that our website supposes that you have a good idea of the town(s) that your family came from – but what if you don’t? \nJoin us either Thursday\, November 13th at 8 pm Eastern or Sunday\, November 16th at 12 pm Eastern for a 90-minute interactive discussion with JRI-Poland president\, Robinn Magid\, focusing on Finding Your Family’s Hometown. The two sessions have different sign ups. You are welcome to attend either or both. \nThis is the signup for the Sunday\, November 16th event. \nWe receive a fair number of questions from people who: \n\nOnly know that their family came from “Russia”\, “Austria” or “Russian Poland”;\nCannot find “their town” on a map;\nThink that the town “no longer exists”;\nAre unsure why they cannot find their family name in the town they expect;\nHave never found a family document in the JRI-Poland database.\n\nIf any of these cases describe you\, please join us and we’ll do our best to help each other! \nPlease note that participants in this session must be dues-paying members of JRI-Poland. You can check your membership status by logging into the JRI-Poland.org website and checking the status bubble just under the “HELLO” message at the top of your screen. Hovering over the “HELLO” message will invoke a drop-down menu with the option called “MY PROFILE” where you can join if you have not yet by paying $54 annual dues. \n  \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/5664/
CATEGORIES:Members Only
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T123322
CREATED:20260118T222023Z
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SUMMARY:Lublin-Zamość Area Town Hall Meeting
DESCRIPTION:If you are researching the towns and villages of the Lublin-Zamość Area\, you are cordially invited to attend a 90-minute Town Hall style meeting on Sunday\, February 8\, 2026 beginning at 1 pm Eastern. You must have a JRI-Poland NextGen account to attend\, but for this particular session\, you do not need to be a JRI-Poland annual member. \nThe Lublin-Zamość area was the most densely\, Jewishly populated area in Poland and comprised some of the oldest Jewish communities there. The JRI-Poland database includes data from more than 100 towns and villages where Jews lived. The descendents of the Jews of this area include family traditions of descending from both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish families\, including Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to Italy\, and then were invited in to the area by Count Jan Zamoyski around 1535. \nThis session will be led by Robinn Magid\, Lublin Area Coordinator\, and Shelley Pollero\, Zamość Area Coordinator. Robinn and Shelley have led joint Lublin-Zamość area meetings at more than 20 of the annual IAJGS conferences. Together they bring decades of experience with the Jewish records of the local towns and they have each visited many of them in person. \nThe session will include a presentation about the region and the research opportunities in the Lublin-Zamość area. We will include a breakout session into smaller groups by towns of interest\, and then will regroup for a Q&A session to develop an understand of what your priorities seem to be as we plan for the next projects that JRI-Poland will address in this document-rich area. \nJoin us! \nImage Attribution: By SANtosito – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95970545 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jri-poland.org/event/lublin-zamosc-area-town-hall-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Public
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