Welcome to the Belarus SIG!

The Belarus SIG website has a new look. To help you navigate, here are some guides:

If you are new to the site, begin at Navigation to find out about how the website is organized or learn more about us. If you are new to genealogy, start with our Get Started section. If you want to search for your ancestors, check the SIG Search. Looking for your ancestor’s shtetl? The Communities section is where to begin.

Open the Record Sources section to learn about the 2016 SIG Projects, District Research Groups, and to search the Belarus Records Inventory.

Any Genealogical Questions? Use our simple online form to contact us or just email the Help Desk directly.

The dotted line is the modern boundaries. Note that Grodno, Vilno and Vitebsk and a small part of Polesie in Minsk are now in other countries.

Grodno Minsk Mogilev Vilna Vitebsk

Search for Your Ancestors

Partnership

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the Miriam Weiner Archive Database search engine for Belarus. It can search for the names and/or towns appearing in the summary translations of documents researched by Miriam in her 25+ years of research in Belarus. Read the Introduction for more details on this database.

We are very grateful to receive this unique and historic material and share it with researchers. Learn more about Miriam and get more details about the entire collection donated by Miriam.

What’s New on the SIG

2020

February We have added another new newsletter article courtesy of J.R. Rothstein, a biography of Jacob Rutstein from Tolochin.
January To start the new year, we have added two new newsletter articles courtesy of J.R. Rothstein, detailing his research into the history of Jews in Tolochin and the family of Nachum Rutstein in Tolochin.