Dear fellow researchers:

In case you missed the recent announcement the Jewish Records Indexing -
Poland project is happy to announce that the indices to all the Jewish vital
records of Kielce - not filmed by the LDS (Mormons)-have been
indexed by the JRI-Poland team in Warsaw as part of the Kielce Polish State
Archives (PSA) Project.

There were many responses and already there have been success stories.
Researchers are invited to post their successes on the mailing list.

Kielce is located 101 kilometers NNE of Krakow in the Kielce area.
Neighboring towns within 20 miles include Daleszyce, Checiny, Sobkow,
Chmielnik, Bodzentyn, Malogoszcz, Jedrzejow, Pinczow and Szydlow.

*Summary of Kielce records being indexed*
Births: 4530
Marriages: 721
Deaths: 1647

*Surnames found in the new indices*
The most common surnames found in the Kielce indices. (Number of
entries follows the name)

ZYLBERSZTAJN (149), MANEL (93), GARFINKEL (92), GOLDBERG (92), KUPERBERG
(84), MOSKOWICZ (70), GOLDFARB (60), KOCHEN (56), CUKER (53), RAJZMAN (49),
GUTMAN (48), ROZENBERG (48), TENENBAUM (48), URBAJTEL (48), MACHTYNGER (47),
WAJNSZTOK (45), GOTFRYD (44), BEKERMAN (43), JAKUBOWICZ (42), JOSKOWICZ
(41), LEWKOWICZ (41), EJZENBERG (40), FEDERMAN (40), PASTERNAK (35),
WAJSBROT (35)

A list of all surnames appearing in the Kielce indices is now online at:
< http://www.jri-poland.org/psa/status.htm#Kielce >

or direct to each town at
< http://www.jri-poland.org/psa/Kielce.surn.htm > and

If you would like to know the number of times any surname appears in the new
indices or more about the Kielce Town project, please contact me at:
dprice@...

Best wishes,
David Price, Toronto, Ont./Canada
Kielce Town Leader
Kielce PSA Project,
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
dprice@...