What is a Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator ?
Each city or town in Poland represented in the JRI-Poland database will have an official “Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator.” This person has volunteered to coordinate the effort to enter all the Jewish records for the city or town that are held in the LDS microfilm collection. In addition to the Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator, there may be a group of volunteers offering to key the actual data into the JRI-Poland database. In some cases, particularly for smaller towns for which there are only a few microfilms. Shtetl CO-OP Coordinators may choose to work entirely alone on the project. While JRI-Poland welcomes volunteers who prefer to work on their own, we encourage group participation because the networking always makes the job easier and more fun.
