A NEW AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE
ROUTES TO ROOTS FOUNDATION
AND

The Routes to Roots Foundation (RTRF) and its president, Miriam Weiner, are very pleased to announce a new partnership with Ancestry.com whereby the Archive Database (currently on the Foundation website at www.rtrfoundation.org) will also be accessible on the Ancestry.com website. The RTRF archive data on Ancestry.com will be accessible via various search criteria and will be updated on a continuing basis.

The Ancestry.com website offers the world's largest collection of Jewish family history records and with the RTRF collection, it expands its geographic coverage even further into records of interest to Jewish genealogists who have roots in Poland and the former Soviet Union. With this new agreement, the RTRF is assured of the preservation of the archive database and a much larger awareness by the public of the valuable data it offers. Millions of people visit Ancestry.com monthly and RTRF is proud to have the Archive Database become a part of the collection of resources for Jewish genealogists on the Ancestry.com website.

The Archive Database is an on-going project dating back twenty years ago in Poland and then continuing into Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania. The database includes a town-by-town listing of surviving documents in the archives of the foregoing five countries (and some entries from Romania and Russia). The database information was collected by Miriam Weiner, president of the Foundation, pursuant to contracts with head archivists in all five countries. Each database entry includes:

• Town name
• District, region and country where town is currently located
• Type of documents available for that town (more than 20 different types of record groups)
• Name and location of repository with the data
• Years available for each record group
• Archive file numbers for each entry
• Link to the repository that has the data

The Routes to Roots Foundation will continue to exist as an independent organization and website. Enhancements and updates continue to be added.

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