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JewishGen
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
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BELARUS
SIG
A forum for researchers with Jewish family roots in
country now known as Belarus and more specifically
from the former Russian Gubernii (provinces) of Grodno,
Minsk, Mogilev, and Vitebsk.
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LITVAK SIG*
Encourages preservation and computerization of primary
sources of genealogical data, for the descendants of the
Lithuanian Jewish community. |
BOHEMIA-MORAVIA
SIG
A forum for those researching Jewish genealogy in the
areas formerly known as Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech
Republic), plus parts of Austria, especially Vienna, but
not Galicia. |
RABBINIC
GENEALOGY SIG
A forum for those interested in Rabbinic genealogy or
researching rabbinic ancestry within any geographic area
or time period. |
DENMARK
SIG
A forum for researchers with Jewish roots in Denmark,
the Danish West Indies, and other Scandinavian countries.
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ROMANIA
SIG
A forum for those with Jewish roots in The Banat, Bessarabia,
Bukovina, Dobruja, The Maramures, Moldavia, Transylvania
and Wallachia (all within the modern nations of Romania,
Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine). |
EARLY
AMERICAN SIG
A forum for those researching Jewish immigrants to the
United States before 1880. |
SEFARD
FORUM
A forum for researchers of Sephardic genealogies.
English is the preferred language. |
FRENCH
SIG
A forum for Jewish genealogical research in France and
French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas
such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. |
SOUTHERN
AFRICA SIG
A forum to discuss the genealogy and family history of
Jewish communities of South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana,
Zimbabwe and Zambia (Rhodesia), Swaziland, Mozambique
and the former Belgian Congo. |
GALICIA
SIG
A forum for those interested in researching their Jewish
roots in the former Austrian province of Galicia (now
southern Poland, western Ukraine). |
UKRAINE
SIG
A forum for researchers with family origins in the former
Russian Empire gubernias now in the Ukraine: Podolia,
Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson,
Taurida and Ekaterinoslav. |
GERMAN-JEWISH
SIG
A forum that focuses on Jewish genealogy in German-speaking
regions, which include not only Germany itself, but other
areas such as Austria, parts of Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine,
Bohemia and Moravia. |
SHTETLINKS
Participants create a genealogy web page of their own,
devoted to a Jewish community (shtetl). It is then uploaded
to the JewishGen website. |
HUNGARIAN
SIG
Hungarian Jewish Special Interest Group is for those with
Jewish roots in the area known as "greater Hungary" or
pre-Trianon Hungary and includes areas that at one time
were predominantly Hungarian speaking. |
YIZKOR
BOOK
The memorial books, assembled by survivors of communities
liquidated by the Nazis, give a full account of the employment,
customs, and lifestyles of people in a world that is no
more. The forum works to faciliate access to those books.
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| LATIN
AMERICA SIG* A forum
for researchers with Jewish family roots in all countries
of Latin America. |
GENEALOGY
BY GENETICS Scientific questions that go to
the core of DNA technology, and its reliability. Discussions
encompass all areas relating to when and how to best utilize
DNA testing for your personal genealogical pursuits. |
LATVIA
SIG
A forum for researchers of Jewish families of Latvian
descent. |
JRI-POLAND*
Jewish Records Indexing Poland. A project to create a
searchable database containing all available vital record
indexes for Jews of Poland. |
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