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Austria-Czech
Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), plus parts
of Austria, especially Vienna.
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Belarus
The former Russian Empire gubernii of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev,
Vitebsk, and southern Vilna, now in Belarus.
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Bessarabia
The former Russian gubernia of Bessarabia, which is now in Moldova,
with parts in Ukraine. Also covers Transnistria (Pridnestrovie),
a small region on a left bank of the Dniester.
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Białystok
The city of Białystok and nearby towns and villages,
currently in Poland, formerly in the Russian Empire's
Grodno Gubernia.
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Courland
Kurland gubernia, now southern Latvia.
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Danzig/Gdańsk
Danzig/Gdańsk, and its precursor communities of
Alt Schottland, Langfuhr, Mattenbuden, Weinberg, and
Danzig in der Breitgasse, and Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański).
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France
France and French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas
such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
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Germany
Germany and German-speaking areas of Alsace, Lorraine,
Switzerland, and Poland.
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Hungary
"Greater Hungary" or pre-Trianon Hungary, includes areas
that at one time were predominantly Hungarian speaking.
This includes all of present-day Hungary and Slovakia, and territory
now within Ukraine, Austria, Romania, Croatia and Serbia.
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Latvia
The former Russian Empire gubernias of Courland,
southern Livonia (Livland), and western Vitebsk.
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Lithuania *
Kovno and Vilna guberniyas of the Russian Empire,
which includes most of present-day Lithuania. *LitvakSIG is a hosted organization, which works in partnership with JewishGen. LitvakSIG data is added to JewishGen's Lithuania collection every 18 months.
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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.
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Romania
Romania (including Bukovina).
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Scandinavia
Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark - including the former
Danish colonies and protectorates.
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Sephardic
For all researchers of Sephardic genealogy and history.
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Southern Africa
Including South Africa, Lesotho (Basutoland), Botswana (Bechuanaland),
Zimbabwe (S. Rhodesia), Zambia (N. Rhodesia), Swaziland, Mozambique
and the former Belgian Congo.
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Sub-Carpathia
Sub-Carpathian Ukraine – parts of the pre-WWI Hungarian megyék
of Bereg, Máramaros, Ugocsa and Ung – today Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
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Suwalk-Lomza *
Publisher of Landsmen, covering these two northeastern gubernias
of Russian Poland, now in northeast Poland and southwest Lithuania.
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Ukraine
The former Russian Empire gubernias now in the Ukraine:
Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov,
Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav.
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United States
Jewish families who came to the United States both before/during/after the
larger immigration waves of the 1880s.
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Warszawa
The capital city of Poland, Warszawa (Warsaw).
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