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Hancavičy

Hantsavichy district, Brest Region

69 files in the archives name Hancavičy. Among them: parish registers — 6, land, surveys, redemption — 3.

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Names

Belarusian: Ганцавічы; Hancavičy; Hancawičy; Ганцавічы
Belarusian (Taraškievica): Ганцавічы
Russian: Ганцевичи
Polish: Hancewicze
Lithuanian: Hancavičai
Ukrainian: Ганцевичі
English: Hancavičy; Gantsevichi; Hantsavichy
German: Hanzawitschy; Hancavičy

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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: Hantsavichy district, Brest 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.

Years	Volost; district	Estate	Source
1910–1911		Мыслобожи	from the titles of the estate's files (years of the files)
…–1921	Slutsk Uyezd, Minsk Governorate		Wikidata
1921–1939	Лунінецкі павет, Polesie Voivodeship		Wikidata
1940–1962	Hantsavichy district		Wikidata
1962–1966	Liachavičy District		Wikidata

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.

Geneteka: Hancewiczemarriages 1926-1932

Estates

Estates whose files name this place:

Мыслобожи (Слуцкий уезд) · in files: 1 · named as the estate's village

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.

Ганцевичский район (1944)

Документы по установлению и расследованию злодеяний, совершенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками и их сообщниками на территории Ганцевичского района (сводные сведения, акты, протоколы опросов свидетелей, поименные списки, схемы) (12.10.1944 - 07.05.1945)

Files on the whole region — Пинская область (2)

Places nearby

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: 69in 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.