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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY

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1882

Belarus - White Russia 1882
From Blackie & Sons Atlas (Edinburgh, 1882), Scale: 1:6,100,000 (or one inch equals about 96 miles)
http://www.feefhs.org/maplibrary/russian/re-belaru.html

• Strelna, Grodno, Poland: Grodno passed to Russia in 1795 and was the capital of Grodno province from 1801 to 1914. It was transferred to Poland in 1920 incorporated into the Belorussian Republic in 1939 - http://www.kresy.co.uk/grodno.html

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c. 1939

http://www.belarusguide.com/as/map_text/zach-bel.html

Strelna in Belarus: СТРЕЛЬНА

http://picsdets.com/q/belarus/

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1915

Karte des westlichen Russlands - L 32 Drohiczyn a/Bug

Drohiczyn on the Bank of the Bug River

http://easteurotopo.org/indices/view/view.php?map=kdwrindex&section=Drohiczyn(a.Bug)

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• Today's Belarus was part of five Russian Empire gubernias (pre-1917): Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vilna, and Vitebsk.

  Each gubernia (губерния) was comprised of several districts (уѣздъ / уезд = uyezds):

  Minsk gubernia [Минская губерния] was comprised of 9 districts (uyezds):
  Bobruisk, Borisov, Igumen, Minsk, Mozyr, Novogrudok, Pinsk, Rechitsa and Slutsk.

  Between the two world wars — the western third was in Poland (southern Nowogródek and northeastern Polesie provinces).
  Today — the vast majority of Minsk gubernia is in modern Belarus; small portions of southern Pinsk and Mozyr uyezds are in modern Ukraine.

  Mogilev gubernia [Могилевская губерния] was comprised of 11 districts (uyezds):
  Bykhov, Chausy, Cherikov, Gomel, Gory-Gorki, Klimovichi, Mogilev, Mstislavl, Orsha, Rogachev, and Senno.

  Today — the majority of Mogilev gubernia is in modern Belarus; small portions of northeastern Mogilev gubernia (eastern Orsha, eastern Mstislavl, and northern Klimovichi uyezds) are in modern Russia.

  Vitebsk gubernia [Витебская губерния] was comprised of 11 districts (uyezds):
  Drissa, Dvinsk, Gorodok, Lepel, Liutsin, Nevel, Polotsk, Rezhitsa, Sebezh, Velizh, and Vitebsk.

  Today — Dvinsk, Rezhitsa, and Liutsin uyezds (and a small part of Drissa) are now in Latvia;
  Sebezh, Nevel, and parts of Gorodok and Velizh uyezds are now in Russia;
  Lepel, Polotsk, Vitebsk, most of Drissa and Gorodok, and parts of Velizh uyezds are now in Belarus.
  For more details, see Geographical Regions for the JewishGen Latvia Database.
  

  Grodno gubernia [Гродненская губерния] was comprised of 9 districts (uyezds):
  Bialystok, Bielsk, Brest, Grodno, Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim, Sokolka and Volkovysk.

  Between the two world wars — was in Poland (western Polesie, western Nowogródek, eastern Białystok provinces).
  Today — the western third (Bialystok, Bielsk, and Sokolka uyezds) are in Poland; the remainder of the uyezds are in Belarus.

  Vilna Gubernia [Виленская губерния] was comprised of 7 districts (uyezds):
  Disna, Lida, Oshmyany, Vilejka, Sventsyany, Troki and Vilna.

  Between the two world wars — was in Poland (Wilno and northern Nowogródek provinces).
  Today — the four southern uyezds (Disna, Lida, Oshmyany, and Vilejka) are all or primarily in Belarus,
  as is a small part of Vilna and half of Sventsyany uyezd.
  The three northern/western uyezds are primarily in Lithuania (all of Troki, most of Vilna, and half of Sventsyany).
  For more details, see Geographical Regions for the JewishGen Lithuania Database.

  Small parts of former Kovno Gubernia (eastern Novo-Alexandrovsk uyezd), Suwałki Gubernia (eastern Augustów uyezd), and Volhynia Gubernia (northern Kovel uyezd) are also now in Belarus.

  https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/belarus/$georegions.htm

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1919-1920

DROHICZYN, STARA STRELNA, BELORUSSIA

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/attachments/wojna-polsko-bolszewicka-jpg.215261/

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1918-1938

Bug River, [Drohiczyn]

zz_polska_hist1.gif (600×452) (bp.blogspot.com)