Historical Jewish Lida District (Uezd)

Lida District History and Origin of Grodnenskaya Guberniya  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/lida-hist.htm

Jewish Population of Lida District https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/lida-pop.htm

Yad Vashem for Lida:

·         Nowogrodek region - Online Guide of Murder Sites of Jews www.yadvashem.org/yv/.../killing_sites_catalog_details_full.asp?

·         Lida www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos.../ghetto_details.asp?. 

·         Wilno region - Online Guide of Murder Sites of Jews  www.yadvashem.org/yv/.../killing_sites_catalog_details_full.asp?.

Eastern European Boundary Changes or Where is German-Poland, Russian-Poland, and Austrian-Poland? https://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/ausgeruss.html

Brief Outline of Administrative Divisions https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/gub-defs.htm

Russian and Polish Geographical Definitions https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/geo-defs.htm

Family Stories about Avoiding the Draft: conscription. https://www.jewish-history.com/cantons.htm

Starosta and Other Community Organization. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/starost.htm

Levanda Index of Tsarist Decrees Relating to Jews https://www.angelfire.com/ms2/belaroots/levanda.htm

Translation Site to facilitate your research:  https://translate.google.com

Convert Old Russian Units? https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/units.htm

Searchable Databases

·         All-Lithuania Database (ALD). www.litvaksig.org/component/litvaksearch/  

o   1858 Revision List (Census) now part of records purchased in part by participants in LitvakSIG's Lida District 1858 Revision List Project.

o   Kaunas Residents 1874 registered in Lida uyezd because notation "Lida uyezd" is in the comments field.

·         1929 Polish Business Directory for Nowogrodek Wojwod.  https://jri-poland.org/bizdir/start.htm Lida Uezd was part of this administration district between the two World Wars. (The sections for each Lida uezd town listed can be browsed from each KehillahLink but not all Lida uezd towns have listings.)

·         Business Directory for Minsk where Lida relatives may have moved so worth checking. https://jri-poland.org/bizdir/start.htm

·         JewishGen Belarus Database https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/

·         Ellis Island One Step Database for Jewish Passengers  https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB

·         Jewish casualties in the Russo-Japanese War  for Men from Lida. Search for "Lidskij" with other towns included: Voronovo, Ostrin and Shchuchin [use that spelling]. https://www.bfcollection.net/fast/rjmain.html

·         The Jewish Encyclopedia https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

·         Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation searchable catalog of records held in Eastern European archives https://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.php

·         1923 Polish Business Directory in Library of Congress [page images] https://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20020613002popage.db

·         Lida Area victims of Stalin's Purges. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/lida-purge.htm

·         KehillahLinks  Belarusian communities. Of particular interest close to Lida Uezd are Mstibovo, Nesvizh, Skidel, Slonim , and Svisloch

• KehilaLink for Vilnius  the big city our Lida ancestors looked to for cultural and spiritual direction
• Grodno  another nearby big city to which family might move
• A Belarus Miscellany 
• Haruth Jews of Belarus site https://www.haruth.com/JewBelarus.html
• Bereza Area Research Group has interesting material, particularly a detailed map of Grodno Guberniya https://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/
• Radzima  has photographs from Belarus. Click on "en" in the upper right corner for English .Choose region “Grodna” and then towns in districts: Lida, Iŭie, Ščučyn, and Voranava..   
• pictures of Belarus. https://www.globus.tut.by 
• pictures from Jewish cemeteries all over Belarus, https://www.globus.tut.by/type_tn_graves_evr.htm  and use Google translation
• Vilna (now Vilnius): many Lida Jews probably had relatives in Vilna. Fania's Vilnius is a video tour through Jewish Vilna. 

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