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Lyakhovichi Families
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
Lyakhovichi Cemeteries
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A Visual Archive of Documents Held by Lyakhovichi Families
by Deborah G. Glassman, copyright 2008
Copyrights of images retained by their owners, this is a protected publication not a release to the public domain. The Webmaster takes this opportunity to thank again all of the generous members of the Lyakhovichi Research Community who shared these valuable treasures!

The visual resources that the descendants of several thousand emigrants from Lyakhovichi still possess in 2008 has not yet been effectively assessed. In 2004 as I prepared the first version of this website I came across on EBay, with no resources to pursue it, a letter archive from Lyakhovichi to Eretz Israel in the 1930s that numbered in the hundreds of pages. What other collections of letters exist from our town? In publishing the website, readers have generously shared time and again, everything from marriage records to images of matsevas. On this page, you will also find personal documentation that entered the public sphere. The US government restricted casual passage to Poland in 1921 in the wake of the bloody battles that had ensued between the "new nations" of Poland and the Soviet Union. Anyone wishing to travel to assist family in that area had to prove that they were doing so at the request of those close relatives. The letter from the family, the translation of that document, and other relevant documentation was attached to the passport application. The flip side, documentation accompanying a visa request, also provided unique views of personal life. On this page, newly offered May 2008, we begin the process of gathering these records together. We need your help to make this a real research tool - please share the family letters, the receipts and visual ephemera related to travel, work, and your family's lives!

 

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Szymon Rabinowicz of Lachowicze
to son David Robinson of Detroit

1921


Translation, notarized 1921


Seal of the Mayor of Lachowicze 1921
On David Robinson Letter, reverse side


Marriage between Isaac Goldberg (ne Wolochwiansky) of Lyakhovichi and Fanny Evenstone.
If her family's original name was Himmelstein, her father may also be a Lyakhovichi native. One of at least a dozen Lyakhovichi families in Leeds England in the 1890s. Thanks to Rachel Turner for this record and sharing her family investigations. On the larger page, hover your cursor in the lower right hand corner for the expansion icon

 

 


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)
A Memoir of Lyakhovichi, pre-1914 NEW: My Devastated Shtetl, Part1 and
My Devastated Shtetl, Part2 and
My Devastated Shtetl, Part3 and
My Devastated Shtetl, Part4 and
My Devastated Shtetl, Part5and
Surname, Nickname, and Residents by Locale 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


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 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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