 | This page contains an interface to our Database of
Volhynian Towns. We have a database of over 10,000 town names, covering
Volhynia and some of the surrounding areas now in the Ukraine (including the
area around Lviv). Search the database for your town, then view a map that
shows all the surrounding towns.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Enter a town name into the table
interface. You may enter either the entire town name, or just a
prefix if you are not sure of the spelling.
Hint: If looking for a town whose name
has two parts (e.g., Glusha Wielke), try also reversing the parts when
searching for the town (e.g., Wielke Glusha).
Note that names like "Volina" and "Gobanye" probably refer to the entire
Volhynia Gubernia, and not to a specific town.
- When the list of matching town names appears, click on the
map button opposite a town name
to see a map showing all of the towns and villages in the
surrounding area.
If you cannot find the town, possibly
the town is in our list of "lost
towns".
If you still cannot find the town,
possibly the town was not in Volhynia. Try using the JewishGen
ShtetlSeeker (JGSS) to search for the town.
Once you have found the town in the
table and saved your map (use your browser's "print" feature),
check the JewishGen Family
Finder (JGFF) to find other researchers who are researching
the same town.
Search methods:
- Plain text method: This method searches using the exact text that
you type in. For example, entering BERDICHEV will return just the
information for the town (or towns) named "BERDICHEV" and not all the other
names that the Soundex method finds.
- Daitch-Mokotoff
Soundex method: This method searches for towns with names that might
sound like what you type in (given the different languages spoken
in the area and how they might be transliterated into english) and is very
useful when you don't know exactly how the town name is spelled. For
example, a search for the name BERDICHEV will also find
BERDICHIV, BERDYCIV, BERDYKHOV, and even
BORTKUV.
You may search using an entire town name or a prefix
(the first few letters) of a town name. For example, entering the prefix
BE using the plaintext method will return all town names that begin
with "BE". Using the soundex method, that prefix will also return all town
names that begin with "BE", but will also return town names that begin with
"BA", "BI", "BO", and so on. If you enter just a prefix when using the soundex
search method, we recommend that you enter three letters or more.
Note: There is a 500 town name limit on the search. Searches can typically
exceed 500 searches when you use the soundex search mode and enter a short
prefix. If your search exceeds 500 matches, the program will print the first
500 and ask you to try again with a longer search string.
Each row of the table contains the the following information:
 | A town name. The list of names includes approximately 10,000
town names from the United States National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) database. The towns in the list were
either located within or not far from Volhynia.
| The location of the town in latitude and longitude coordinates.
| The country in which the town is now located.
| Whether the name shown is the modern town name ("N") or a variant
of the name ("V"). The variants are typically historical names, names
in other languages, or alternative spellings due to transliteration of
names from a non-roman alphabet.
| A link to the automatic map generator that will create a map of
the region around the town. |
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If you are researching a settlement that was in Volhynia but is not in
our database, check our list of "Lost
Towns".
If you know the location of a town that is not in our database, send us a
message that includes the name and latitude/longitude of the town as it
appears in the JewishGen
ShtetlSeeker.
Volhynia database created and programmed by Mark Heckman
Last update 13 Jun 2000 |