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To view present-day Belarus at Google Maps, click here.
For a map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905, click here.
To view an additional historical map showing the historical percentage of Jews in governments, click here.
Definition of "Pale of Settlement" from Wikipedia.org:
The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта́ осе́длости, chertá osédlosti, Yiddish: דער תּחום-המושבֿ, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv, Hebrew: תְּחוּם הַמּוֹשָב, tḥùm ha-mosháv‎) was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited. It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line, to the western Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and with Austria-Hungary. The English term "pale" is derived from the Latin word "palus", a stake, extended to mean the area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

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Lithuanian Jews inhabited what is present-day Belarus. To learn of their history, read the Wikipedia.org article Lithuanian Jews, by clicking here.
Explore this Jewish genealogy site dedicated to the memory of the Jews exterminated and displaced from the Belarusian Shtetls by the Nazis.
Explore: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

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More than 650,000 records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records. Requires free registration. To search, click here.

Civil registration. Jews can be found in civil registration. See Belarus Civil Registration to learn more.

For A Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe, click here and hover over Belarus.

View the Archives of Belarus home page by clicking here. Includes a "Contacts" link.
Discover over 50 web pages of Jewish information available online at the Archives of Belarus by clicking here to search. Follow up by starting a search for the word "Jewish" and clicking the "Search" button.

JewishGen Belarus SIG promotes Jewish genealogy research in Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk Gubernias as well as the Lida and Vileika uyzeds (districts) of Vilna Gubernia. Visit this page by clicking here.
Jewish Heritage Research Group In Belarus is a professional researchers who can help with Jewish research in Belarus. Visit this page by clicking here.
Jewish Family History Research Guide (Courtesy of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute - Revised July 2012)
Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus this site has a blog that gives valuable information such as specific charts.

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 *More than 650,000 records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records. ''Requires free registration.'' To search, click [http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/#Belarus here].
+=== Types of Records ===
+*Civil registration. Jews can be found in civil registration. See [[Belarus Civil Registration]] to learn more.
 === Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation  ===
 *For ''A Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe'', click [http://www.rtrfoundation.org/ here] and '''hover over Belarus'''.
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