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

HUNGARY: leader - Natalie Hamburg
Area - All of the old Hungarian territory and the Transylvania that has Hungarian culture in its heart. 

ROMANIA/MOLDOVA: leader — Marilyn Newman
Area: Romania, which includes Moldova, Bessarabia and Transylvania in Western Romania.

LITHUANIA: 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

UKRAINE: leader –Mona Morris
Area: Ukraine