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1943
Minsk Ghetto List, by Vitaly Charny
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The All
Belarus Database has been updated with records from the 1850 Vileika
district revision list for the following towns
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Budslav (200)
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Gorodok (414)
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Kraisk (155)
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Krasnoselje (227)
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Krivichi (318)
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Kurenets (976)
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Lebedev (399)
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Miadel (410)
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Rechki (141)
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Newsletter: Lazar Lagin (1903 - 1979), by Vitaly Charny (15/2004)
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Newsletter: Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg (1903-1965), by Vitaly Charny (14/2004)
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Byten 1806 Revision List
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Byten 1850 Revision List
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Byten 1858 Revision List
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Newsletter: A Belorussian Border Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s: The Case of
Turov, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (13/2004)
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Newsletter: Origin
of Jewish Last Names in Turov , by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D., Diaspora
Research Center (12/2004)
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Newsletter: Vladimir
Vysotsky, Russian actor, poet and folksinger (1938-1980), by Vitaly Charny
(11/2004)
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Newsletter: Abram
Brazer, 1892-1942, by Vitaly Charny (10/2004)
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Independent Brisk Delito Lodge #565,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
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1923 Business Directory for Nowy Myadel,
contributed by Nancy Holden
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1850 Radoshkovich Revision List
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Mirrer
[Mirer] Young Mens Benevolent And Educational Society 1983-1987 Dues Book,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
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Newsletter: Revisiting Belarus in Quest of the Late Pnina Modlin's Family Roots, by Kelly Modlin
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Deaths in Myadel 1941 -
1944, compiled by Chaya Lupinsky, prepared for the Internet by Anne Selicov
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Minsker Ladies Benevolent Society Burials,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
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1907 Igumen Uyezd Duma List, 3rd
Duma, 1st Congress, by the Belarus SIG, translated by Irene Kudish
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Minsker Ladies Benevolent Society circa 1960-70,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
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1850 Vileika Revision List
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1850 Dolginovo Revision List
1837 list of voters for Rabbi: Brest,
Kobrin, Slonim, Novogrudok, Pruzhany, Volkovysk, Slonim, and Grodno uyezds 1880 Russian Army Deserters,
contributed by Jenni Buch Newsletter:
Irving Berlin: He is American Music!,
by Vitaly Charny Newsletter:
Borisov:
A Mirror of the Holocaust in Belorussia, by Leonid Smilovitsky,
Ph.D. Newsletter:
Archival Holdings in Belarus: Regional and District Holdings According to Chronological Period, by Dr. Oleg Perzashkevich 1907 Bobruisk Duma List,
translated by David Price 1850, 1854, and 1864 Pavlovo Farmers
Colony Revision Lists Belarus
Static Index - An improved version of the old Belarus Surname
Index.
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The Holocaust in
Belarus, by Leonid Smilovitsky Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1944,
by Leonid Smilovitsky, Preface by Daniel Romanovsky Holocaust in
Belorussia: Author’s Foreword, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky -
The Holocaust in Belarus: Baranovichi,
by Leonid Smilovitsky, translated by Michael Ryabinky
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The Holocaust in Belarus:
Dyatlavo, by Leonid Smilovitsky,
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The Holocaust in Belarus:
Ivye, by Leonid Smilovitsky, translation donated by Peter Duffy
- The Holocaust in Belarus:
Lida, by Leonid Smilovitsky, translation donated by Peter Duffy
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The Holocaust in Belarus:
Vasilishki, by Leonid Smilovitsky, translation donated by Peter Duffy
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The Holocaust in Belarus:
Voronovo, by Leonid Smilovitsky, translation donated by Peter Duffy
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The Holocaust in Belarus:
Zheludok, by Leonid Smilovitsky, translation donated by Peter Duffy
Independent Horodoker Benevolent Aid Association,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn Newsletter:
Social History and Genealogy, by Naomi Fatouros, Michelle Frager, Susan Rosenthall, Bill Schechter
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- 1883-1889 Usvyaty Birth
records, extracted and translated by David R. Brill
- Drissa Uezd Duma Voter Lists, 3rd
Duma, 1907, by Michael Steinore
- Narovler Aid Society Board of
Directors, contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
- List of Holocaust Victims and Survivors from the Village of Kobylnik (today Narocz or
Narach) Belarus, compiled by Meyer Swirsky
- A list of vital records microfilmed and cataloged by the Family History Library in Salt Lake
City, by Nancy Holden
- Outline of Archival Resources in the Repositories of
Belarus, by Nancy Holden
- Timeline Consequences of Border Changes - The History of the Administrative-Territorial Division of
Belarus, by Nancy Holden
- 1930's Minsk Chronicle Publication Committee
(Minsker Pincos), contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
- Members of the Volpa community on the eve of World War
II, by Mr. Menachem Goldin and Mrs. Miriam Ludzin, contributed by Avi Ariav
- Homler Brothers Society,
contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
- Volkovysk District
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- The
Belarus
Surname Index has been updated so that links to surnames with
the same Daitch-Mokotoff soundex are provided.
- United
Brisk Relief Committee (Brest), by Jerry Seligsohn
- Lahishiner Social
Benevolent Society (Logishin), by Jerry Seligsohn
- Jews killed in Kholmech
in August 1941, contributed by Bill Schechter and Albert
Kagnovitch, has been updated.
- Independent
Orler Benevolent Society, by Jerry Seligsohn and Rhoda Miller
- The
LAWS section of the Belarus SIG
Resource page has been updated to include Michael Steinore's
excellent index to all Czarist decrees concerning Jews up to 1873.
- Membership
of the Lepel prayer house and synagogue - 1841-1846 - Lepel, Vitebsk
Gubernia, by Irene Kudish
- Marriages
in Minsk in 1912, registered by Rabbi Khanelis
- Divorces
in Minsk in 1912, registered by Rabbi Khanelis
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Archival
records page has been updated to have additional information for
the Grodno gubernia.
- A
Belarus travelogue, by David Gordon
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| December
2001 |
- The
Belarus
Surname Database has increased to 53728 names, searchable by
surname or town.
- The Jews of
Zakharino, Chislavichi District of Smolensk Region, Russia shot by the Nazis on May 9, 1942,
by Shlomo Gurevich
- Krivichi
and Kurenitz benevolent societies, submitted by Eilat Gordin
Levitan, The Dinerstein Family, and Jerome Seligsohn
- Belarus
Given Names Database, by Professor Gerry Esterson.
- The
Sample
Belarus Documents page has been completely revised by Neville
Lamdan and Leonid Zeliger.
- Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei
Rozenoy: A New York metropolitan landsmannschaften for Ruzhany,
Belarus, contributed
by Ann Rabinowitz
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| September
2001 |
- Lachowiczers
in the Ellis Island Database, contributed by the Lachowicze
research group, with special thanks to Eilat Gordon, commentary by
Neville Lamdan.
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gubernia pages for Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev,
Vilna, and Vitebsk
have been updated to show internet links for the gubernia, the uyezd
within the gubernia, internet links for each uyezd, and the shtetls
within each uyezd.
- Independent Zetler's Young Mens
Benevolent Association, contributed by Jerry Seligsohn.
Updated to include 6 missing pages of names (pages 10-15).
- Hlusker
Benevolent Society Plot, Baron Hirsch cemetery, Staten Island, New
York, contributed by Michelle Frager
- Belarus
Records in Various Archives, by David Fox. Many people
ask are there any surviving records for my shtetl in Belarus and
where can I find them...
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Detailed Inventory of 13 Microfilms of Belarus Records at the Family History Center,
by Vitaly Charny
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National
Historical Archive of the Belarus Republic, Minsk, a detailed
inventory of what was found in this archive.
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Jewish
Holdings at the Grodno Archives, contributed by David Fox
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Belarus
Records Inventory, contributed by David Fox
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2001 |
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The
Baltic Republics of Russia: portions of a 1915 map by G. Peltier,
contributed by Michael Steinore. Most of Belarus is in lower
right quadrant.
Give or take, it covers the following gubernias: Grodno, Kovno,
Lomza, Lublin (in part), Minsk (except Rechitsa uezd), Piotrkow
(in part), Plock, Radom (in part), Suwalki, Svedlitz, Vilna,
Vitebsk (west of city of Vitebsk), Volhynia (upper third),
Warsaw. I'd estimate the map shows about 2000 towns.
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Early 19th Century Map of Properties in Lechovich and Vicinity, located by Henryk Limon, translated by Vitaly Charny,
formatted by Gary Palgon, introduction by Neville Lamdan.
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1971
Delatizer Aid Benevolent Society, by Jerry Seligsohn
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1951
Delatizer Aid Benevolent Society, by Jerry Seligsohn
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1804 Russian set of laws concerning
Jews, by Vitaly Charny. I would like people to change
their impression that in Russia everything was the same all
of the time. The truth is that Russian laws were less
constant than in the United States.
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Names in the Lechowitz section of Mt
Judah cemetery, contributed by Stephen Warshall
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Independent Zetler's Young Mens
Benevolent Association, contributed by Jerry Seligsohn
- The
1905 List of Real Estate Possessors of the District Town of Slutsk,
Minsk Province, by Oleg Perzashkevich,
forward by Harry Boonin
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2001 |
- Mogilev,
an article from The Jewish Encyclopedia
- Grodno,
an article from The Jewish Encyclopedia
- 1906 Lida voter
list; appendix to #90 Vilna Gubernia Vedemosti, by Irene
Newhouse
- Brest-Litovsk,
an article from The Jewish Encyclopedia
- Pinsk,
an article from The Jewish Encyclopedia
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| January
2001 |
- Jewish
Tavern Keepers Registering in Lyakhovichi (1805),
contributed by the Lachowicze
research group,
Foreword by Neville Lamdan
- Lyakhovichi
1880 draft list, by Gary Palgon
- Lyakhovichi 1889 draft list,
by Gary Palgon
- Lists
of donors to the United Grodner Relief of New York. March
1940, September 1944, March
1948, and 1949, by Edward
Rosenbaum
- Bragin region Nazi victims,
by A.L. Bell
- Vitebsk
Cemetery, by Eliyahu Tavger
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| December
2000 |
- Brisker and Grodner Benevolent Society - 1987, 1989 - Cleveland, Ohio,
by Eileen Price
- 1907 Mozyr Uyezd Duma List
- The inhabitants of
Zhuravichi, killed during the Nazi occupation, by Alex Friedman
- 1906 Novogrudok Uyezd
Duma List
- 1912
Lida voter lists for city assemblies - part
'e' - part
'zh'
- 1875 list of Jews called to the draft office to figure out the age by appearance, communities of
Pinsk, Karolin, and Kozhan Gorodok, by Edward Rosenbaum
- Slonim
Business Directory - 1918
- 1906
Borisov uyezd duma list
- 1906
Pinsk Uyezd Duma List
- 1906
Pinsk City Duma List
- Records
of Real Estate Possessors, 1905-6, Nesvizh, Slutsk Uezd, Minsk
Gubernia, Belarus
- 1906
Brobruisk ueyzd duma list
- Antopoler Young Men's Benevolent Association,
by Jerry Seligsohn
- 1874
Borisov revision list, by Mike Levine.
- 1834
Borisov revision list, by Mike Levine
- Grodno
Organizations, by Jerry Seligsohn
- United
Brisker Benevolent Society - 1949, by Jerry Seligsohn
- Part of conscripts list 1879 for 1st conscription office of Kobrin uyezd (district),
by Vitaly Charny
- Shchedrin
- Russian laws and Jewish farming, by Vitaly Charny
- The
Rogachev cemetery, by David Fox
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2000 |
- Ostrowshitskiy
Gorodok revision list, by Vitaly Charny
- Lachowicze
revision list of 1816
- Lachowicze
revision list of 1819
- The
Grodno
cemetery, by Eric Adler. Listed below are 1,829 names
extracted from the "Nemenskaya" cemetery in Grodno,
Belarus. Of these entries, 903 have surnames. The
burials occurred from 1784 to 1968.
- The
Borisov
cemetery, by Eliyahu Tavger
- The
1911 Vitebsk Vsia
Rossiia has been added to the All
Belarus database.
- Rechitsa
Jews who perished in 1941, by Albert Kaganovitch
- The
bibliography section of the
Belarus Resources has been updated to
include Jews
in Belarus: A select bibliography of works in the British Library
- Jewish
surnames from the Minsk Gubernia - by Vitaly Charny. A
list of over 5500 surnames that have appeared in various 1900-1914
records.
- The
1842 Creation of Kovno Guberniya Changed the Borders of the Vilna
Guberniya and Grodno Guberniya - by Ellen Sadove Renck
- MultiMap.com
- A clickable map of Belarus
- List
of tavern, etc. owners in Minsk and their taxation (in Rubles per
year) - 1880 Minsk Gubernia Vedomosti #1, by Larissa Charny
- The
Transliteration
and Translation Aids section of the
Belarus Resources page
has been enhanced to have information on Cyrillic and Yiddish
transliteration, and Cyrillic script.
- The
Shtetls
of Belarus has been updated to include the shtetl Opita.
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2000 |
- The Shtetls
of Belarus has been updated to include information on the
shtetls of the Vileika uyezd, Vilna gubernia (thanks to Stephen
Cohen).
- The
Brisker Unterstuestzungs Verein
- by Arn Burkhoff. Welcome to the Brisker
Unterstuestzungs Verein webpage. My great grandfather, Michael
Berezofsky from Brest-Litovsk was a founding member of this
landsmanshaften
- September
20, 1880 list of Mozyr draft evaders
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
- September
27, 1880 list of Glutsk draft evaders
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
- October
25, 1880 list of Bobuisk draft evaders
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
- May
10, 1880 list of Novogrudok draft evaders
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
- June
28, 1880 list of Minsk draft evaders
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
- December
27, 1880 list of draft evaders, Borisov uyezd, Minsk Gubernia
- by Edward L. Rosenbaum
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Brest-Litovsk
burial plot in Mt. Hebron Cemetery
- by Marc Weiss. Here is a listing of the text (translated from the
Hebrew) on the gates of the burial plot in Mt. Hebron Cemetery,
block 3, path 20.
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Lachowicze
Voter List (1905-1907)
- contributed by the Lachowicze reserach group
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Lachowicze
1883 and 1884 Deputy and Electors Tax Lists
- contributed by the Lachowicze research group
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Notice
to Creditors in the Insolvency of Gustav Anton Yazvinsky
- by A.L. Bell. Notice to Creditors in the Insolvency of
Gustav Anton Yazvinsky to appear at a court hearing to be held on 15
November 1870. Printed in Issue 41 of the 1870 Minsk Vedomosti,
which was a newspaper published by the Russian Empire.
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Jews
from Bobruisk in the 1816 Revision List -
by A.L. Bell
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July
1853 list from the Minsk Gubernya
- by A.L. Bell. List of persons subject to service to the Minsk
guberniya corporation department at the Ministry of Internal
Affairs.
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February
1860 Minsk Guberniya Fines List
- by A.L. Bell
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1860
Minsk Vedomosti Foreign Travel Notices
- by A.L. Bell. Here are some samples of "Departing for the
Border" (foreign travel) notices.
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Additions
to the Bragin, Rechitsa uyezd, Call-up list - August 1888
- by A.L. Bell
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Additions
to five Minsk Gubernya comminities' conscription lists, October 1888
- by A.L. Bell. Stolpetz, Khojniki, Yurevichi, Kholmech, and Nesvizh
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A
June 1893 debtors list from the Minsk Gubernya
- by A.L. Bell.
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An
1893 call-up notice for Jews in the Minsk district
- by A.L. Bell
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August
1876 Minsk Gubernya Draft Notice
- by A.L. Bell
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A
List of 337 Jewish draft evaders from Nesvizh
- by A.L. Bell
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Minsk
Vedomosti notices concerning the Shneersons of Lubavitch
- by A.L. Bell
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Selected
records for people who might be A.L. Bell's relatives
- by A.L. Bell
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Polish
Priest Protecting Memorial On Murdered Jews' Mass Grave -
There is a story behind these pages presenting the picture of a
priest, his restored church and a memorial marking the common grave
of 10,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis in a forest of Nowojelnia, 5328
2535, (Dyatlovo district) in Belarus.
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Jewish
History of Belarus - by Daniel
Romanowski
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Victims
of Stalin - By A.L. Bell and
Vitaly Charny. This file lists some of the many Jewish people from
Belarus and regions near Belarus who were executed from the 1930s to
the early 1950s in Moscow, during Stalin's reign of terror. Keep in
mind that this is just a small portion of a long, sad list of
victims.
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Minsk
history - From
"Minsk: a Historical Guide" by Guy Picarda
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Vsia
Rossiia - 1903 Minsk Gubernia, 1911 Mogilev Gubernia-
Over 4,000 Jewish businesses, from 1903 and 1911 Russian business
directories.
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Mir,
Novogrudok uyezd, Minsk Gubernia 1816 Revision List
- by Vitaly Charny
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History
of Grodno - by Ellen Sadove
Renck
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Information
about Mstislavl, Mogilev Gubernia
- compiled by Graham Zeitlin
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Selected
Records from the Grodno Oblast Archive (mss.) [Manuscript
RG-53.004M] in USHMM -
This collection is on seven reels of microfilm, containing seventeen
fonds (or record groups), compiled by Tilford Bartman
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Jews
from Rechitsa and Bobruisk in the 1816 Revision List - From
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Minsk Gubernya
Revison List Microfilm Number 2010469 - Including: The 826 Polish
records in the middle of Microfilm 2010469. Compiled by A.L.
Bell, Kansas City, Missouri, Jan. 1, 2000
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"Hebrew"
Korobochniks in the Minsk Gubernya in the Late 1839s - businessmen
who had successfully bid for the right to collect the "Box
tax," or taxes on the sale of kosher meat , by A.L. Bell
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