A new 8-year agreement on promoting research and education between Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc. and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has been co-signed at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ottawa on April 10, 2014.

The new agreement between JRI-Poland and the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews expands the relationship of the two organizations to promote research and to educate those interested in their family history and the rich and historic culture of Polish Jewry, which dates back almost 1000 years.

The April 10 signing by JRI-Poland Executive Director, Stanley Diamond,of Montreal follows the initial signing of the agreement by Acting Director of the Museum in Warsaw, Andrzej Cudak several weeks ago.

Under the new agreement, the Resource Center at the Museum will have special access to the JRI-Poland database and website. Museum staff will educate visitors and respond to their questions regarding the database and provide guidance to Museum visitors on the next steps they can take in their research of family roots in Poland. In 2010, the two organizations signed a cooperation agreement linking their websites.

The Museum's "Virtual shtetl" portal commemorates and includes research resources for more than 1880 Polish towns. JRI-Poland has Jewish record indices from the birth, marriage, death and census records for the Jewish families that lived in many of these same towns. By using the two websites together, researchers are able to not only obtain names, dates and sources of family records from JRI-Poland, but are also be able to learn about town histories from the Museum's web pages.