Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

These are some of the most recent additions to our website, over 160 new pages in November 2008 and July 2009. Many of the July 2009 additions were further augmentations of material first tackled in Nov. 2008

The most significant group of records substantially changed in July 2009 are: the Death Certificate Database Project (on five pages covering 1893-1943 for those buried in New York City and introducing new material from death certificates and burial registers around the world); the Cemetery Stones Database (on 24 pages including over 1200 photographs of matsevot, an index by surname, Hebrew Name of Decedant, and Hebrew Names generally); the three-fold expansion of the Married Couple Database, see Married Database by Husband's Surname A-B  Married Database by Husband's Surname C-I, and Married Database by Husband's Surname J-Z. The Obituary project changed from a simple description of the project concept to a full page of obit images at Lechovicher Obituaries, p2 and finally the continued remarkable growth of the FaceIndex, a visual index of people who were born or resident in Lyakhovichi.

New Lists Added July 2009

1) Death Certificates/ NY Lechovicher Plots 1933-1944
2) Indices for NYC Death Certificates 1933-1944
3) Extracted Marriage Facts NYC Death Certificates 1933-1944
4)Cemetery Stones,p23 Hebrew Index A-C
same page - index by Decedant's Surname, Index by Decedant's Hebrew Name
5) Cemetery Stones,p24 Hebrew Index D-K
same page - index by Decedant's Surname, Index by Decedant's Hebrew Name
6) Cemetery Stones,p25 Hebrew Index L-R
same page - index by Decedant's Surname, Index by Father's Hebrew Name
7) Cemetery Stones,p26 Hebrew Index S-Z
same page - index by Decedant's Surname, Index by Father's Hebrew Name
8) Cemetery Stones, p12 - Bnai Mordechai Lechovich, NYC New Images, new names
9) Lechovichers buried around the world New Images, new names
10) JCT Bondholders Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi
11) JCT Bondholders with Lyakhovichi Ties +in Gorodische+Kletsk
12) More Lechovicher Obituaries
13) 1874 List of Jewish Males- List of Surnames
14) 1874 List of Jewish Males - Places where Lechovichers had settled
15) 1874 List of Jewish Males - More about The Deputies of 1884 taxlist in the 1874 List
16) 1852-1884 Supplements to Revision Lists - List of Surnames
17) Lyakhovichi Rabbis - Additions
18) Trade Directories - Midwives in Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi in 1938
19) Possessive "Surnames" in Lyakhovichi - part of a new page on Lyakhovichi Names including a table listing the names by which individuals were reported and the surnames under which they were actually registered
20) Primary Records of Lechovichers in USA - State and Municipal Records
21) Primary Records of Lechovichers in USA - Federal and State Censuses

Also see new articles:
such as those on our new Holocaust Page Holocaust Memorials of Lyakhovichi featuring the dedication speech by Moshe Inditzky at the Lyakhovichi memorial dedicated in Lyakhovichi in 1993
and research extracts / book reviews like
Jewish records in Catholic Records in Russian State Archives on our page Church Records

In November 2008 we added new biographies and memoirs including:
Rabbi Pinchas Malowicki - Lechovicher Rebbe of America
The Kann Brothers of Pittsburg
Rubin Kaplan, a Baranovichi pioneer in Israel in 1921
Dinka Feiga Baranek - a Lyakhovichi businesswoman
Lyakhovichi Savants
Elijah Kirzner, Master of Psalms
Our Ancestry Trees of Lyakhovichi also include Biographical details on other Lyakhovichi families including some newly added in July 2009.

Our research community continues to contribute a wide variety of resources. Tina Levine added several hundred more photographs of matsevot for the July update, bringing her total to over a thousand for this update and its predecessor. She continued her project of extracting another another ten years of death certificates for those buried in Lyakhovichi plots and she went and found physical copies of books specified with Lyakhovichi subscribers and authors. The November contributions of Mitch Kotler (Baranovichi Travelogue), Alison Greengard ( Visual Archive, and The Virtual Library and Rubin Kaplan, a Baranovichi pioneer in Israel in 1921) remain incredibly valuable. But July 2009 also sees a new page with your emails about your Lyakhovichi relatives Family Searches of Lyakhovichi Researchers . The current edition shares letters detailing info about relatives named Kuntsevitsky, Postan, Zabelinski, Gelfand, and more.

As noted in the previous update, We have begun exploring the value to Lyakhovichi history of death certificates, marriage certificates, and obituaries that we have not had available previously. Many more US record images are on our pages. North American research has expanded to immigration of the Caribbean and Mexico and we have started our first tentative steps into South America with the 1895 Argentinian census.

New Info Added to Existing Pages in Update
Many pages have been changed, new pictures added, new notes added. On almost every page on our site, you will find notations in red, that there is a new record to examine, or a new discovery about an old one.

New Tools in the July 2009 and November 2008 Updates

We continue to add new comparison tools.
July 2009 Mortality Lists - Deaths in the 1834 and 1850 Revision Lists

Earlier updates provided the following tools:
Using the 1884 Lyakhovichi Tax Lists to connect to the 1850 Lyakhovichi Revision Lists
Searching for Family Data in The Lyakhovichi Tax Lists of 1883-1884

Newborn and Missing of the 1834 and 1850 Revision Lists

Comparing the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1784 Poll Tax to Russian Records of 1805 and the 1816/1819 Revision Lists

New York City Death Certificates with Lyakhovichi Marriage Facts

We have added new navigation tools
We want you to be comfortable exploring this site. We want it to be the place to which you are constantly returning confident that you will find something rewarding to read. So the site has been made easier to move about and every page also now tells you where you are and how to find more in that category of information. The very first Key Page Button is a short-cut to all of the indices on the site!

New Images in the July 2009 Update
The number of images in our FaceIndex (title copyright as well as content) continues to grow. So do the number of images shared by our readers.