Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

Given Names Reported in Lyakhovichi Records:
Given Names beginning with S
by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2008.

All indices on this page are ©Deborah Glassman 2008 and may not be reproduced in whole or part or included in another database, without her written permission.

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Repeated Introduction Across All Pages of the Given Name Index
This index includes all of the original records on the Lyakhovichi website as of May 2008. It does not include other finding tools like the patronymic index, the immigration index, or the internal indices of the different census enumerations and revision lists. It also does not yet include the new collaborative databases added in May 2008, nor the Face Index - all of which will be included in the next update.

The Given Name Index is not a reworking of the Patronym tables nor of the Surname Index. It gives us access to many more people over a greater period of time, beginning with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Census of 1784 and continuing into documents created by the governments of the twentieth century nations of the United States, Soviet Union, and Israel.

Tens of thousands of individual recordings of people born in, or resident of, Lyakhovichi are reported in the Given Name Index. The webmaster has utilized some standard practices to make tracking people from one record to its predecessor, an easier process.

Names have been gathered together in groups by a standardized spelling, though the individual records have not been changed. So Abram, Abraham, Avrom, Avrum,. Avram, Awrum, Avraham, and every other possible variant, have been brought together. They then were alphabetized by surname when one existed and then ordered by date within those surnames.

We have introduced co-names (such as Judah and Leib), linked names (like Yehiel and Michael), and translated names (such as Zvi, Hirsch, and Girsh), on other pages of our website (See the Surname Index). In this index we have only brought together the translations, not the co-names or the links. So you will see Asher and Osher all indexed together as spelling variants, but Zelig, a linked name to Asher, is indexed separately. The Hirsch of Yiddish, the Hyrsz of Polish, and the Girsh of Russian, are all indexed together, but Naftali, a co-name to all of them is posted separately. Let the webmaster know if you think this is a good solution or whether you would find it helpful to have the names in both places or think they should be brought together or you have another solution that has not yet been considered.

Notes on the Tables
The webmaster is working her way through the lists combing them for multiple iterations in the same record. This is a work in progress but you will now see the term "multiple" in many of the lists below. It means that the name appears in that record multiple times with that same spelling. A different spelling is indexed separately. Our Holocaust Records include three lists drawn from Yad Vashem and "multiple" is only noted if a name appears repeatedly in the same list with the same spelling. The Imperial Russian Lists that include Lyakhovichi extracted voters of Slutsk uyezd, will have the word "multiple" reported, if the person appears on that page more than once and many people appear in voters lists of different years. The 1883-1884 Tax Lists combine three lists: taxpayers; electors who choose representative deputies; and the deputies. "Multiple" means that the same name appears more than once in the list, possibly as a taxpayer and a deputy or some other combination. The Tax List will show in the Given Name Index, as multiples regardless of patronyms, if the first-name/ surname combination is repeated in the list. Immigration records may show as multiple if the person appears repeatedly in the records of another - i.e. three children going to the same father. It is a good reminder that when you use these indices to arrive at a target page, and have found your person of interest, you should then use the "find" command on your internet browser, to look for that same name variation, to repeat the search on that same page.