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1 Apr 2002 Film list updated (batch 6 - 2896 records submitted to JRI Poland) Sue Fifer
27 Jan 2002 Film list updated  Sue Fifer
13 Jan 2002 Surname list updated Sue Fifer
13 Jan 2002 Film list updated (batch 5 - 2442 records submitted to JRI Poland) Sue Fifer
16 Sep 2001 Film list  Sue Fifer
24 Feb 2001 Film list updated Sue Fifer
2 Dec 2000 Stawiszyn page added Sue Fifer
2 Dec 2000 Surname list and film list updated Sue Fifer
27 Nov 2000 First batch of Stawiszyn records accepted and searchable on JRI site Sue Fifer
27 Nov 2000 Third batch of records accepted and searchable on JRI site Sue Fifer
18 Aug 2000 Second batch of records accepted and searchable on JRI site Sue Fifer
11 Jun 2000 Information for film research: Record order in film 743142 Year 1821 for marriages/deaths (no index) 
Death records start at AKT 81; continue to AKT 106 
Death records continue AKT 64-80 
Marriage records follow (AKT 1-25 including one divorce) 
Death records AKT 1-63 follow marriages
Sue Fifer
11 June2000 Cyrillic indexes from films 2041958, 2041959 and 2041960 were photocopied and sent to me by Jan Engel. These cover the years 1878 to 1892. I am now looking for a small group of people with experience of transliterating handwritten 19th century Cyrillic script to help make these indexes readable and available on line. Offers of help welcome. 
Jan also supplied the Cyrillic indexes from the small town of Stawiszyn which is some 20km north of Kalisz and which had a significant Jewish population relative to its size. These films are numbered 2092166 and 2092177 and cover the years 1866-1879 (births) and 1862-1894 (BMD). A third film exists, 764034,covering the period 1826-1865 (non-Cyrillic script). In checking on this film in the FHC in London yesterday I was delighted to find the marriage record of my 3x great grandparents which then gave me the names of four of my 4 x great grandparents - a bonus I hadn't been looking for. Many thanks to Jan for leading me to this film. 
Jan Engel
26 May 2000 Information on Dr Michael Morgenstern (1780-1849) Irene Newhouse
10 May 2000 First batch of records accepted and searchable on JRI site  Sue Fifer
1 May 2000 Filmlist updated to show latest transcription figures Sue Fifer
1 May 2000 Booklist page set up Sue Fifer
30 April 2000 References and namelist updated in June Troy's research into the BETTE and OSIAKOWSKI families Sue Fifer
24 Apr 2000 A thought: The 1865 birth index (film 743148) contains 528 names. This compares with 150-240 for other years. Was there was an "amnesty" of some sort for non-registered births? A change of clerk? Change of regulation? Political change? This might be a good place to look for births which should logically have been recorded in earlier years but which can't be located.(In my own FAIFER research so far, the oldest birth registration was at age 24 in 1846) Sue Fifer
24 Apr 2000 Film index updated with more unindexed records from first film (743141) transcribed by Madeleine Okladek Madeleine Okladek