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1914 German Topographical Map of Lyakhovichi and surrounds was supplied by the generosity of Tomek Wisniewski and more details on this image and his other contributions to historical research are listed with the map.

1929 aerial view of Lyakhovichi is courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration from the Records of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Record Group 733, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.

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Belarus
Map of Belarus

Lyakhovichi Road Map
Lyakhovichi Road Map in 2000

1940 Jurisdictional Map
1940 Jurisdictional Map


1929 Aerial Map
1929 Aerial Map of Lyakhovichi


Street Map Lyakhovichi from Yizkor Book
Street Map from Lyakhovichi Yizkor Book

Detail from Lyakhovichi Street Map in  Yizkor Book
Detail from Lyakhovichi Street Map in Yizkor Book


Brest Region with Districts from 1939
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1923 Map from Poland-Danzig Directory
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Automobile Map of the Polish Period

Polish Road Map of Lachowicze area from 1920s
1928 Polish Road Map for Novogrodek region
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Three Maps from 1914

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1915 Polessie

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1914 Atlas

Lyakhovichi is circled in red near the Grodno border.

 


1914 Topographical Map of Lyakhovichi area in German

This map was supplied by the generosity of Tomek Wisniewski who has brought together a superb historical and cultural gallery of Polish materials. See Mr. Wisniewski's materials listed under important links on our pages at Research Tools.

 

Twentieth Century Maps

This page is a key page for our entire Map section but concentrates on Maps of the Twentieth Century. We would like more maps from all periods but there are several documents that would work well on this page. Soviet military maps, World War II maps, surveys of many types. Please contact us if you know of any that we could include. Send an email by clicking Contact Be sure to include Lyakhovichi in your subject area and let us know about resources that will make this page better.


You can get to any page on this website using the links on the right hand side of the page, but because of the intimate connection between this page and other parts of our Geography section, we also include a link here to Early Maps of Lyakhovichi



Maps created in the investigation of Lyakhovichi property records in the Minsk Archives. These property records covered from 1878-1912 and it is not immediately clear if they represent any single year of that period.


















TABLE OF CONTENTS
All Titles are links.

Indexing this Website
Finding People
SURNAME INDEX A-E
SURNAME INDEX F-Kam
SURNAME INDEX Kan-Lam
SURNAME INDEX Lam thru M
SURNAME INDEX N-R
SURNAME INDEX S
SURNAME INDEX T-Z
ALL NEW GIVEN NAME INDEX
Given Name Index - A,B
Given Name Index - C and K
Given Name Index - D, E
Given Name Index - I,J,Y
Given Name Index - L,M
Given Name Index - N,O,P,R
Given Name Index - S
Given Name Index - T-Z
Patronymics A-B
Patronymics C and K
Patronymics D-F
Patronymics G-H
Patronymics I,J,Y
Patronymics L-R

Patronymics S-Z
Immigration Index
Tracing Women in the Revision Lists
Face Index - A-K
Face Index - L-R
Face Index - S-Z

Finding Content
Detailed Table of Contents
Article Index
Map and Image Index

Lyakhovichi Home
Photo Headlines
History of the Lyakhovichi Website
New Additions to Our Site
Invitation to Collaborative Research
Obituaries of Lyakhovichi-born
Death Certificate Project
Married Couples Database

Documents
20th Cent. Documents
Holocaust Records
Holocaust Records Page Two
Holocaust Records Page 3
Soviet Records
Polish Records (1919-1939)
Imperial Russian Records 1900-1918
Imperial Russian Business Directories
Business Directories 1919-1939
Property Records of Imperial Russia Emigrant Association Records
Primary Records of other Nations
More Primary Records of USA
Primary Records of Eretz Israel
Death Register 1893-1933 NYC

Readers' Visual Archive -Documents

Migration Documents
NYC Port Records
Third Parties in NYC Im Records
1892-1906 Not as Hebrews
Other US Port Records
European Emigration Documents More European Em Documents
Images of Transit
19th Century Documents
Military Records
Lyakhovichi Civil Docs (Voters, Petitions)
A Tool to Use 1883-1884 Tax Lists 1883 and 1884 Tax Lists A-E
1883 and 1884 Tax Lists F-Le
1883 and 1884 Tax Lists Le-Z
Property Owners c.1870-c.1900
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics A-B
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics C and K
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics D-F
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics G-H
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics I,J,Y
18th/19th Cent. Patronymics L-R

18th/19th Cent. Patronymics S-Z
Slutsk Chevra Kadisha
In records of Russian Towns
Info about Russian RevisionLists
1850-1852 Revision + Supplements
1850 Surname Index
1834 Revision List
1850 Revision List
1819 Revision List
1816 Revision List
Tracing Women in Revision Lists
Women in Revisions of 1834-1850

1805 List of Jewish Taverners
15-18th Cent. Documents
Grand-Duchy-Lithuania Census 1784
GDL Census 1784 Index and Tables
GDL Images

Images of Lyakhovichi Photos -Lyakhovichi Families
Photos - Lechovichers Abroad
The Rachil Sztejn Palgon Collection
Historic Sites of Lyakhovichi
Workman's Circle NYC 1923
Face Index A- K
Face Index - L-R
Face Index - S-Z
Photos in Lyakhovichi Cemeteries
Readers' Visual Archive -Documents


Biographies
Joshua Meir Mandel (c.1832-1923)
Aaron David Kamm Kaplan
Rabbi Azriel Gavza (1710-1773)
Deportation to Siberia, 1941
Rabbi Mordechai (1742-1810)
NEW: A Memoir of Lyakhovichi, pre-1914 on 6 pgs:
My Devastated Shtetl, Part1
and My Devastated Shtetl, Part2
and My Devastated Shtetl, Part3
and My Devastated Shtetl, Part4
and My Devastated Shtetl, Part5
and Surname, Nickname, and Residence Index
Lyakhovichi on the Wiedzma River
Dr.A.Mukdony by David Mazower
Over 100 Rabbis from Lyakhovichi

Specialized Record Jurisdictions
Inventory of Files in the NHAB
Church Records in Lyakhovichi
Jewish Records &Jurisdictions
Manorial Jurisdictions
Newspapers as Research Tools including an Intro to the Minsk Gazette
Local Jurisdictions

CONTEXT
As of May 2008 we have 15 WebPages of Background Information on Geography and History. Go to Geography and  History to see the current list including an Analysis of an 1805 Map by Dr. Neville Lamdan
; Maps showing Lyakhovichi from the 1500s to the 1900s including topos; Stagecoaches and Mail in Lyakhovichi; Title Chain -Lyakhovichi

Key Events- Jewish Life
Overview -Lyakhovichi in GDL
Lyakhovichi in various Publications

These next three listings are not on our site. Yizkor Book Project-Lyakhovichi AND On-line Digitized (untranslated) Yizkor Book for Lyakhovichi
Searching Ellis Island in One Step

 Compiled by Deborah G. Glassman
First Posting by DGG Dec 2004, Updates July 2005, Nov 2007, Winter 2008. Most Recent Update May 2008. There are around 130 separate pages on this site in 2008, All copyright of each page (unless designated elsewhere on the specific page) is retained to Deborah G. Glassman.
Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Deborah G. Glassman

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