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Jewish communities in Russian Empire

Tips for family researchers (click to expand)
Tips to find your shtetl in JewishGen
How to find  the shtetl's records in FamilySearch by Lara Diamond
Tips from YouTube
List of towns and villages  in European part of Russia in 1897  (in Russian)
Jewish cemeteries
About Shtetl​

Additional sources:
Links
BELARUS
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Jewish Heritage Research Group
Jewish Belarus
My Shtetls

Brest
Dokshitsy
Lenin
Mir
Pruzhany
Rubezhevichi Museum
Shchedrin
Stolbtsy
Vysokoye

ESTONIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen

LATVIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Rezekne
Vishki

LITHUANIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Vilnus (Museum of Family History)

LitvakSIG

MOLDOVA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Beltsy (ru)

Tiraspol
Soroki

RUSSIA
KehilaLinks on JewishGen

UKRAINE
KehilaLinks on JewishGen
Galicia towns
Shtetls of Ukraine

Berdichev
Czernowitz (Museum of Family History)
Czernowitz blog of Edgar Hauster
Dubno and around
Kornitsa and Sudilkov (the Grossman Project)
Krasilov (Russian)
Kupel
Lechjwitz
Odesa
Rohatyn
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Romanovka
Vladimirets
Zatishye
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Books
Faleshty, Moldova: Yuri Karlikovsky "Small rock on tombstone" "M+" Tel-Aviv 1999 ISBN 965-7093-11-2
Krasnostav, Ukraine: Peter Segal "You shall not make idols" Tel-Aviv 1995

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