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Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Update and More by Stanley Diamond with JGSI

Sunday, January 24, 2021 11 Shevat 5781

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Stanley M. Diamond is the founder and executive director of Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI). He is founding president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal and the winner of the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada for his work in establishing and directing JRI–Poland.

Diamond will present an update on JRI-Poland’s revolutionary next-generation website and data management project and the current status of various records-indexing and extraction projects, the latest news on scanning of Jewish records in the Polish State Archives, and an overview of not-yet-announced projects for which hundreds of thousands of records have already been indexed.

This is a rare opportunity to get deep inside the story of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (JRI-Poland), an award-winning international project to create Internet-searchable access to the Jewish vital records of Poland.

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