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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

SIG meetings are for JGSPBCI members interested in researching a particular geographic region or place of origin.

SIGs currently meeting are:

BELARUS: leader – Marvin Lopatin
Area: Former Russian Empire guberniyas of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk

GALICIA: leaders – Mark Jacobson
Area: Austrian Poland, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1772 until 1917 – now in southern Poland and Western Ukraine

ROMANIA/HUNGARY: leader — Natalie Hamburg
Area: All of present-day Hungary and Slovakia and territory now within Romania, the Ukraine, Austria (including present-day Burgenland), Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia.

LITVAK: leader – Sylvia Furshman Nusinov
Area: 18th Century Vilna and Kovno Guberniyas, to present day Lithuania.

POLAND: leader — Paul Baranik
Area: JRI-Poland; Birth, Marriage, Death Records (AKT's); Napolianic Form