Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

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Second Method -Do the same search from any google search bar by typing in the search subject immediately before the phrase    site:http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/
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Tip - Use less of the name if it has variant spellings. "Gold" rather than Goldin, Golden; "Piln" rather than Pilnik, Pilnick. You may also have to search multiple times. In the search page results above only Olcha was used, not Olkha, Olha, or Olekh.

There are other search engines. Go to their instructions page for how to do a whole-domain search. The domain for the Lyakhovichi shtetl website is http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/

The Website Indexes Key Page

The Lyakhovichi shtetl website continues to grow and so does the concern that its sheer size may make finding information difficult.

Indices created in 2005 were first augmented and then superseded in many cases by new indexing done in 2007 and 2008. So for the Fall 2008 update, we have tried to speak with a single voice. We have some distance still to go. A reluctance to stop adding new data to concentrate on indexing, has left some indexing projects a full update behind. People for whom we have pictures of their gravestones, for example, will be listed on the page New Names Indexed but they are not yet incorporated into the main indices for surnames, given names, and patronyms.

What do these Indices do well?
They suggest other records, other spellings, other sources. They bring together items you would not expect. Did you know that Govsey and Ovsey are two nicknames for the name Yehoshua (Joshua) and that while they are interchangeable and may be written one way in one document and another in a second, they are never interchangeable with a third nickname for Joshua - Heshel. Heshel however may also be written as Geshel or Gessel. These indices for given names, surnames, and patronyms (father's names) will make a significant difference in your research progress.



The Immigration Indices have been totally redone. They now are a single set of Migration Tables in alphabetical order. The Patronym Tables have been completed for all of the eighteenth and nineteenth century records currently on our pages. The Given Name Index has been expanded so that it includes all Jewish men and women named in all eighteenth and nineteenth century records. The Surname Index now includes every surname on every page of our site. Individual indices for particular censuses, burials, death certificates, appear on our Surname Index pages both in the body and as separate addenda. Special comparison pages - like Searching for Women in the Revision Lists have been relocated to the articles on the Key page for Documents that discuss comarison tools and ho-to methodologies. You can use the instructions at the site map to refresh you on how to navigate the site and that same page holds an article index and a table index. You can now look for tables, articles, photos, and captions, with the index appropriate to each. You can move across this website with both traditional and new media methodologies. You can start at one end and progress to the other as in a book, or you can link from article to article in the wonderful sensation of reading random Wikipedia pieces, going where the whim of the day takes you. But most importantly for both styles, you can get from any page on this site to any other page on this site, by clicking on the Key Page links in the left-hand column.

July 2009 New indices added this update include the Cemetery Hebrew Name Index. There are a number of new lists not yet separately indexed - bondholders of the Jewish Colonial Trust, marriage facts found in New York City Death records, and more of the indices that we had in the pipeline have also been completed. See our page New on the Lyakhovichi Shtetl Website for more lists added for this update but not yet indexed. And on this page in July 2009, we have posted Info on Lyakhovichi Names a new set of tables, indices, and articles relating to Surnames, Double Names, and Possessive Names among Lyakhovichi Jews. Remember to search for specific names with the whole-domain search of Google proposed above.