Further information is available at the JRI-Poland web site. The second component is the Polish State Archives Project . While the LDS films contain approximately 2 million records, there are an estimated additional five to seven million 19th century records that were not filmed. Only records more than 100 years old are available for the indexing project. He or she appoints Town Leaders to handle fund raising for the records of each town.
Polish professionals do the data entry, from photocopies of index pages.
This applies only to records in the JRI database which state that the source of the records is the Polish State Archives. For further information about these projects, please continue on to the next section or contact Shirley Rotbein Flaum Contribute to the Lodz Polish State Archives Project Many more towns' non-microfilmed records are still available in the Lodz archives. The Polish State Archives Coordinator for Lodz is Shirley Rotbein Flaum , Lodz PSA Assistant Archives Coordinator is Joe Ross , and the Lodz PSA Microfilm Inventory Coordinator is Morris Wirth . They will be coordinating the work of the Town Leaders who will assume responsibility for fund raising for the indexing of their towns' records. Please give what you can so that all current and future generations of researchers of the Lodz region can benefit from this project.