Yecht Family 19th Century Origins
Schlager Nelson Yecht Echt Family from Lokacze, Vladimir-Volinskiy or Horochów District, Volhynia Province, Ukraine Jewish Gen
Jewish Population in 1900: 1,730
Wikipedia
Documents
Ukraine 2018 Volyn Survey of Jewish Cemeteries
Ukraine SIG Volhynia Province
Districts: Kovel, Lutsk, Vladimir-Volinskiy
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1906-1910 circa Nelson siblings in Ukraine. Date per Molly Cinamon:
From the collection of Molly Cinamon.
stamp on reverse:
Photograph
R. Sh. Bregman or Hersh Bergman
Horokhiv (Gorokhov), Volyn Gubernia
Negatives are saved
BTS note:
Horokhiv (Gorokhov) is about 20 miles South of Lokachi
Yecht + Schleger Family from Lokacze לאקאטש (Yiddish) (Lacach)
March, 1921: My great grandmother Toby Yecht Shleger and daughter Sarah arrive Canada from Lokacz bound for daughter Rose Robinson in Montreal.
On August 1, 1921 they sail from Montreal headed to Portland Maine and daughter Esther Katz.
March 24-30, 1928 SS Berengaria Southampton to NYC: Rosia Rokejach, 28, b: Lokasz, Poland.
Rose's mother was Chana Schleger, and her mother was Rochel Leah Yecht, first wife of Avram Michel Schleger/Nelson.
June 1, 1940: Sarah Schlager Schwartz Declaration: Lokacze: apparently never completed as there is another Petition from around 1953
Yehuda Eydel Stempel photographer in Lokacze from family postcard
Chandler & Filler Families from Kiselin, Vladimir-Volinskiy District, Volhynia Province, Ukraine Jewish Gen
50°52' N, 24°49' E.........Jewish Population in 1900: 873
James Chandler's Kiselin Research New!
1942 Irving Seigal Chandler Draft Registration. Born in Kiselin.
1899 Abraham Kruch Hamburg to London on Vesta; (Liverpool to Portland on SS Parisian)
Abraham Cook (Kruk) came from the town of Rozhysche Lutsk District, Volhynia Province Translation of Yizkor Book for Rozhysche
This is a line from a Hebrew list of family births in a
Bob Cook’s Shavuot Prayer Book, published in Vilnius. Lithuania, 1844, and now held by Judith Cook Tucker.
Alexander Shmuel born 3 Iyar 5606 Wednesday 29 April 1846 in Sokol, Ukraine, 10 miles from Rozhysche. [BTS: Shmuel, father of Abram Zvi Hersch]
I need to check whether there is a further date offset for Julian calendar in use in Russian Empire until 3/1/1918.
The Robinson family name was Yecht. David Robinson was born in Lokachi. His children in Kovel, Kovel District, Volhynia Province, Ukraine
Kovel is about 54 miles from Lokachi; Kovel Yizkor Book
October 7, 1911 U.S. Consular Registration Certificate Morris Robinson.
Filler Family from Kovel, Kovel District, Volhynia Province, Ukraine Kovel Memorial Book ● KehilaLinks
51°13' N, 24°43' E...........Jewish Population in 1900: 8,521
Jewish Gen Family Finder.............Yizkor Books.............Shtetl Links
1899-1905 circa photo: Chana Filler, Rose Filler's sister Shmuel Filler, a brother, and his wife Mindel Ering
Studio: Leonard in Lutzk (in Russian). Lutsk, Ukraine, is 45.5 mi SE of Kovel
Lutsk ( half Łuck , German Luzk , yiddish לוצק, lat. Luceoria) is a city in Ukraine on the river Styr , the regional center of the Volyn region .
Political, cultural and religious center of Volyn.
In 1859 Lutsk was 59.5% Jewish
Shaul Stampfer, Maps of Jewish settlement in Ukraine in 1648
2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. I added the red dots on known family towns.
shared by cousin Issie Perel.
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Jewish Vital Documents in Ukraine
Alex Krakovsky Ukrainian documents wiki
Donate: JewishGen Ukraine Research Division
Jewish Documents kept by Ukrainian Archives
FamilySearch Ukraine Records Portal
FamilySearch Ukraine Jewish Records Portal
FamilySearch Krakovsky Documents Portal
FamilySearch Finding Jewish Ancestors from Ukraine
| Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots website http://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.php Search for LOKACHI 3 Record groups are available for the locality / town of: LOKACHI |
Locality/Town: LOKACHI Locality/Town: LOKACHI Locality/Town: LOKACHI |
4 Record groups are available for the locality / town of: KOVEL UKRAINE VOLYNSK CENSUS ZHITOMIR ARCHIVES |
2 Record groups are available for the locality / town of: KISELIN UKRAINE VOLYNSK BIRTH LUTSK ARCHIVES |
8 Record groups are available for the locality / town of: GOROKHOV UKRAINE VOLYNSK BIRTH LUTSK ARCHIVES |
In hope of moving up the indexing queue.
LDS Site Family Search
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Lokachi, Russia 1,890 results for Event: Birth, Place: Lokachi, Country:Russia
Lokacze, Russia 31 results for Event: Birth, Place: Lokacze, Country:Russia
Alternate names: Lokachi [Ukr, Rus], Lokatsh [Yid], Łokacze [Pol], Lokach, Lokatchi, Lukach, Lokache
Region: Volhynia
Ukrainian: Локачі. Russian: Локачи. Hebrew: 'לוקאץ. Yiddish: לאקאטש
Lokachi, Ukraine: 50°44' N, 24°39' E
| Era | Town | District | Province | Country |
| Before WWI (c. 1900) | Lokachi | Vladimir | Volhynia | Russian Empire |
| Between the wars (c. 1930) | Łokacze | Horochów | Wołyń | Poland |
| After WWII (c. 1950) | Lokachi | Soviet Union | ||
| Today (c. 2000) | Lokachi | Ukraine |
Lokatch (Poland) Memorial Book
| Original Title: | Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Lokatsh (Polin) - Gedenk bukh far di shtetl Lokatsh |
| English Title: | Lokatch (Poland) memorial book* |
| Editor: | Compiled by: Eliezer Verba; ed.: Shimon Matlofsky |
| Published: | Jerusalem 1993 |
| Publisher: | Shimon Matlofsky |
| Pages: 132 Languages: H, Y | |
| Notes: | English introduction |
| Harvard University Library, Cambridge, MA, United States, Call No: Heb 42956.407 | |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Call No: Has book | |
| New York Public Library, Jewish Division, New York, NY, United States, Call No: *PXW(Lokachi) 93-563 | |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: /90147 | |
| Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Call No: Has book | |
| British Library, London, , England, Call No: Has book | |
| Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, , Israel, Call No: D47(438) | |
| Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA, United States, Call No: XZD Lokatch | |
| University of Haifa, Haifa, , Israel, Call No: 0574987 | |
| Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, Call No: NOT THERE | |
| Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, , Israel, Call No: 1282597 |
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Table 7.4 – The list of the units of administrative and territorial division of Ukraine and their capitals
| Cyrillic form of the name (область) | Romanized form of the name (oblast) | Cyrillic form of the oblast capital’s name | Romanized form of the oblast capital’s name |
Volynska oblast |
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| Ковельський | Kovelskyi | Ковель | Kovel |
| Локачинський | Lokachynskyi | Локачі | Lokachi |
| ВолодимирВолинський | VolodymyrVolynskyi | ВолодимирВолинський | VolodymyrVolynskyi |
| Горохівський | Horokhivskyi | Горохів | Horokhiv |
| Рожищенський | Rozhyshchenskyi | Рожище | Rozhyshche |
| Луцький | Lutskyi | Луцьк | Lutsk |
Geni: Jewish Families of Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia
Yahad-in Unum execution site for Lokachi
Locatcher Young Mens Benevolent Association
How Ukraine Became Ukraine--a history with maps
Lokachi Kehilalinks page (DRAFT)
European Borders 1000-year History of Changes (video)
European Borders 1000-year History of Changes (video, slower pace)
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