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Chavusy

Chavusy District, Mahilyow Region

Names

Belarusian
Чавусы
Belarusian (Taraškievica)
Чавусы
Russian
Чаусы
Polish
Czausy
Lithuanian
Čavusai
Ukrainian
Чауси
English
Chavusy; Chausy; Čavusy
German
Tschawussy; Čavusy
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Old maps of this place — Russian 3-verst map, WIG 1:100,000 (1924–1939), German maps of 1914–1918 (Mapster)

Now: Chavusy District, Mahilyow Region

Affiliation by years

Parish, volost, district and estate as different sources give them, one source a row. Each source speaks of its own year and they may disagree.

YearsParishVolost; districtEstateSource
1772–1924Chaussky Uyezd, Mogilyov GovernorateWikidata

Indexes of metric books

Baptisms, marriages and deaths transcribed by volunteers (Geneteka of the Polish Genealogical Society), with the years transcribed. Search by surname on their site.

Extraordinary State Commission files, 1944–1945

Files of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: witness interviews, lists of the killed and of those deported to Germany (NARB fond 1569, digital copies from GARF, scans online). The 1944 district is the one with the nearest district seat, so near a district border look at the neighbouring one too.

Чаусский район (1944)

Files on the whole region — Могилевская область (3)

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

Polish geographical dictionary of 1880–1902: gmina, parish, number of households, owners. The link opens the page scan.

Where it is mentioned

Fonds, inventories and files whose titles contain the place name. Several places may share a name — check the uezd and volost.

All records mentioning it: 260in the search, with filters by archive, kind of document and years

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Links

Place data from Wikidata (CC0 licence), where it can also be corrected.