Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

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This page is more of a concept than a completed presentation. It is a landing page for the documents that you can submit related to your Lechovicher relatives as they were documented in the US. Few of these records name Lyakhovichi in any context - the documents do not ask for a specific town of birth and it was rarely volunteered. But this page has a value that we have described elsewhere. It allows us to see what people who were born in Lyakhovichi put on their American records for the names of people who may have never left Lyakhovichi. The documents they filled in small towns and cities across the US, may describe relatives still resident in Lyakhovichi, as living or dead on a specific date. They may give other valuable clues for that particular family, and as part of a broad documentation of every former Jewish resident of Lyakhovichi, they bring value to all researchers of our town.

There are a variety of records available in the state and municipal jurisdictions. Please send us any that you have uncovered on your research of Lechovichers in your family. We begin on this page with marriage records, name change records, and birth records, each created under the authority of a municipality. We also include details from State Censuses, though we expect such an influx of marriage city-generated documents as to require an additional page for State records in the next update.