Regional Special Interest Groups

JewishGen hosts web pages for several "Special Interest Groups" (SIGs), whose interest is a geographic region of origin, or special topic.

  • Austria-Czech SIG
    Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), plus parts of Austria, especially Vienna.

  • Belarus SIG
    The former Russian Empire gubernii of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk, and southern Vilna, now in Belarus.

  • Białystok Region
    The city of Białystok and nearby towns and villages, currently in Poland, formerly in the Russian Empire's Grodno Gubernia.

  • Courland SIG
    Kurland gubernia, now southern Latvia.

  • Danzig/Gdańsk SIG
    Danzig/Gdańsk, and its precursor communities of Alt Schottland, Langfuhr, Mattenbuden, Weinberg, and Danzig in der Breitgasse, and Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański).

  • Early American SIG
    Jewish families who came to the United States before the larger immigration waves of the 1880s and later.

  • French SIG
    France and French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

  • Galicia SIG
    Austrian Poland, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1917, now in southern Poland and western Ukraine.

  • German-Jewish SIG
    Germany and German-speaking areas of Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Poland.

  • Hungary SIG
    "Greater Hungary" or pre-Trianon Hungary, includes areas that at one time were predominantly Hungarian speaking.  This includes parts of present-day Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, and Romania.

  • Latvia SIG
    The former Russian Empire gubernias of Courland, southern Livonia (Livland), and western Vitebsk.

  • Łódź area
    The city of Łódź, Poland, and localities within a 40 mile radius – in Congress Poland's gubernias of Piotrków, Płock, Warszawa, or Kalisz.

  • Romania SIG
    Romania (including Moldova, Bessarabia and Bukovina).

  • Scandinavia SIG
    Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark - including the former Danish colonies and protectorates.

  • Sephardic SIG
    For all researchers of Sephardic genealogy and history.

  • Southern Africa SIG
    Including South Africa, Lesotho (Basutoland), Botswana (Bechuanaland), Zimbabwe (S. Rhodesia), Zambia (N. Rhodesia), Swaziland, Mozambique and the former Belgian Congo.

  • Ukraine SIG
    The former Russian Empire gubernias now in the Ukraine: Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav.

  • United Kingdom - Jewish Communities and Records
    JCR-UK is a project to record genealogical and historical information about the Jewish communities of the United Kingdom.  A joint project of JewishGen and JGS Great Britain.

  • Warszawa
    The capital city of Poland, Warszawa (Warsaw).

Topical SIGs:

  • Rabbinic Genealogy SIG
    A forum for those interested in Rabbinic genealogy or researching rabbinic ancestry within any geographic area or time period.


JewishGen also hosts Discussion Group Mailing Lists for several of these SIGs, and others.


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