Cities in Belarus?

Miriam Kirshner

2018-12-20 04:33:38 UTC

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In the message regarding towns in Belarus, there was mention of a
Lechavitch, Russia. The writer of the comment found only one match for
Lechowitz, being Lyakhavichy in Belarus. There was another Lechowitz,
which now goes by the name of Bilohirya, located in the Ukraine. Our
ancestors knew the town as Lechowitz or Lechevitz. The re-naming
happened after World War II. Emigrants from Lechowitz Ukraine often
migrated to the American Midwest, especially St. Louis and Omaha. For
more information on Lechowitz, visit this website:
https://sites.google.com/view/lechowitz/home

Miriam Kirshner
Researching Novoselsky in Shepetovka and CHEICHENITZ in Lechowitz,
both in Ukraine

From: "Sheri F. Ross" <***@icloud.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018

Post by Sheri Fay Ross
In researching my great-grandparents, I found my great-grandfather's
naturalization card & petition. Until now, the only information I had about
that part of my family was the last name, LEVINE, and the generic Russia as
the country of origin.
Jacob LEVINE, my g-grandfather, born around 1883, arrived in the US in 1903.
His naturalization card & petition show that he was born in Sthlevitch or
Stahlevitch Russia; spelled one way in one section of the document, spelled
the other way in a different section.
It also shows that his wife, Esther (some confusion as to her maiden name;
shown in various documents as RIEMER, REIMER, SORKIN, RAEMER, and more) was
born in Lechavitch Russia around 1878.
Using the JewishGen Communities Database, there weren't any matches for
Stolovichi, Belarus
Lyakhavichy, Belarus
A couple questions about those results: does anyone who is familiar w/that
part of the world know if those results are reasonable? One city is listed as
79 miles SW of Minsk, the other 80 miles SW of Minsk, so it appears
geographically they are very close.
My other questions show my lack of knowledge of geography and history. I know
the various areas in that part of the world changed names frequently during
the late 1800s and early 1900s but I find it difficult to compare the current
name of a country w/what it might have been called during those years. Does
anyone have any good resources to recommend: websites, books, maps, etc., that
would allow me to look at a map of that area during the late 19th century/early
20th century alongside of a current map? I'm really trying to relate what was
where in the past with what is where today and all I get is confusion. And to
confuse things even further, many of the older maps I find are not in English
so even if they were to be a good depiction, they don't help someone who speaks
only English (and a modicum of Spanish.)

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