Many of you who research in the BIALYGen area also are researching in
the area of Grodno Gubernia now in Belarus. You have probably seen that
the originator of the Belarus SIG and its leader since its inception in
1998, Dave Fox, has decided to retire >from his leadership role.

If you just surf through the Belarus SIG website
< http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/ >, you will see the results of Dave's
leadership. In the short history of BIALYGen (about 19 months), the
Belarus SIG and Dave Fox has been great friends to BIALYGen. Dave
invited us to cooperate on a few Grodno Gubernia projects for which we
are grateful.

On behalf of BIALYGen, we wish Dave much success and happiness in his
future personal and genealogical pursuits. Hopefully a new leader of the
Belarus SIG will step forward and BIALYGen can continue our cooperative
work together.

Mark Halpern
BIALYGen Coordinator