Maps and General Information
Dieveniskes
Today
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Dieveniskes circa 1920
Regional
Map
Town Map
Pictures
Photo
Projects
Member images presented for
enjoyment and identification
(password required)
Image
Database
200
captioned photographs of Divenishok people and places, many taken by the
town’s photographer Tsvi Krizovski
Genealogy
Family Surnames in Divenishok
(open)
Divenishok
Ancestral Tree (password required)
Divenishok
Hub Project (GENI) (open, free GENI account required)
Surname
Discussion Groups (members only)
Researcher
Index (password required)
In
Search Of… (password required)
Ancient Haplogroups
Atlas (open)
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Memoirs, Family
Stories, Testimony
Solitary
in the Overwhelming Turbulence by Naphtali
Karchmer
A unique auto-biographical account describing the author’s five years
as a prisoner-of-war in East Prussia during the Shoah,
a member of the Karchmer family of Divenishok, Lipnishok,
and other Neighboring Shtetls (PDF format; may be
read online or on an e-reader)
Many
Divenishok Family Memoirs
The Divenishok Yizkor Book is special in
its numerous mini-biogrphies of local residents
Yad
Vashem Central Database of Shoah
Victims
Help gather and submit names of Divenishokers
murdered in the Shoah
Searchable
Databases
Divenishok
Burial Society Virtual Cemetery A collection of grave markers from the Devenishker Verein burial grounds at the Mount Zion (Maspeth, Queens) and Beth David (Elmont, Nassau) Cemeteries (currently 149 markers in
the collection)
JewishGen Lithuania Database (for Divenishok and Nearby
Towns)
More than 1.9 million records
from a variety of sources, including: vital records, Revision Lists,
business directories, voter lists, cemetery records, Holocaust sources, and
more. This database includes the LitvakSIG
“All Lithuania” Database.
JewishGen Belarus Database (for Nearby Towns)
More than 800,000 records
from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business
directories, ghetto records.
JewishGen
Family Finder
Surnames and ancestral towns
being researched by 100,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. More than
500,000 entries. This
link takes you to a site in which you can see who else is researching
your shtetl and/or your surname(s).
You can also register yourself so that others can find you (FREE).
Family Tree of the Jewish
People
Data on more than six million
people, from family trees submitted by 6,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
JewishGen SIG List Archives
Search messages posted to the
JewishGen SIG mailing lists, 1998-date.
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