JewishGen is very pleased to announce that we are now hosting a French SIG
whose prime objective will be to provide a forum for questions, discussion
and lots of information about doing Jewish genealogical research in France,
French colonies and French-speaking areas such as Belgium, Luxembourg and
Switzerland.

Thanks to the efforts of Pierre Hahn and Rosanne Leeson who will coordinate
the activities of the SIG and Carol Monahan who already has the web page
online at <http://www.jewishgen.org/french>

we are ready to accept subscribers to this new group.

There are two ways you can subscribe....online or through e-mail

If you plan to do it online, go to JewishGen's home page,
<http://www.jewishgen.org> and scroll down to the Discussion Category.
Click on Special Interest Groups and you'll be taken to the subscription
page, click on Subscribe and the webform will take you through the process.

If you decide to subscribe via e-mail just send a message addressed to:

listserve@... and say

subscribe frenchsig (type your first name) (type your last name)

JewishGen guidelines require that full names be registered along with
e-mail addresses.

***You must confirm your subscription***

Whether your subscribe via the WebForm online or via e-mail you will
receive a message asking that you confirm the request to subscribe. All
you need to do is hit the reply button and a properly addressed e-mail
should result. Send it back to the listserve robot and you'll know you've
done it all correctly if you get a Welcome message telling you all about
the group, how to manage your subscription and the address to use in order
to post messages.

If you need any help with the process, please write to
<support@...> and not to me.

We wish all 'genners very good fortune in researching in the French
speaking countries on which this SIG will focus.

Carol Skydell
JewishGen Vice President, Operations