Editor: Dr Saul Issroff
Copyright © 2012 Saul Issroff, Roy Ogus, SAfrica SIG
and Jewishgen Inc.
URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/goals.htm
Revised: 21 October 2012

The goals of the Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy
Special Interest Group (SA-SIG) are:

1. to bring together Jewish genealogy researchers with a common interest in Southern Africa,
2. to provide a forum (through a JewishGen listserv) for the dissemination of information about research methods, records, etc. in Southern Africa,
3. to develop a searchable database of names from data extracted from microfilms located in the LDS Family History Library and/or other areas,
4. to encourage SIG members to establish SA town Resource Networking Groups,
5. to encourage SIG members to establish SA town WebPages for their Southern African towns,
6. to encourage SIG members to submit their family trees to The Family Tree of the Jewish People at http://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/,
7. to encourage SIG members to translate parts of Yizkor books and submit the translations to the Yizkor Book Project http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html,
8. to raise money through donations to complete projects of interest to our members. These could include:
   
   1. Shipping Records,
   2. Obtaining and translating business directories for areas of interest with the intention of placing the information into searchable databases.

Dues and Membership

In our relationship with JewishGen, we have extended to our members and participants the opportunity to make generous U.S.A. tax deductible donations to JewishGen and to specify on the donation form that this money is earmarked for the use by Southern Africa SIG for its research projects. Money can be earmarked for specific projects or for a general SA-SIG fund to be utilised as needed and wherever designated by the SIG.
 
 
B. UNDESIGNATED CONTRIBUTIONS TO JEWISHGEN
 
Because of a generous grant from an anonymous donor, JewishGen is able to provide administrative assistance, as well as a home for the Southern Africa SIG listserver (online discussion group), our Southern Africa web site, and for our future searchable databases.
 
We all benefit from the efforts of the JewishGen organisation and the services it provides. Therefore, we strongly encourage each and every one of our members and participants to make undesignated donations to JewishGen in addition to the donations to Southern Africa as mentioned above.
 
JewishGen is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to JewishGen are tax-deductible in the U.S.A. according to law for both designated (Southern Africa) and undesignated (JewishGen) donations.
 
We look forward to your participation in our on-line discussion group, and hope that our co-operative and reciprocal communication will benefit all who are researching their Jewish roots in Southern Africa
 
For further information, please contact: Dr Saul Issroff or Roy Ogus