Introduction

by Ada Holtzman

As only men over age 25 were permitted to vote, the lists only include men. The list published here includes all men over 25 years old as recorded in 1907 in Gombin who had the right to vote for the Czarist Duma.

This list is extremely valuable in the absence of vital records. For areas where we have access to good vital records, they add only a little value. But for towns/regions where there are no existing vital records (or the vital records are inaccessible), they can be very valuable. For Grodno Gubernia, for instance, they're precious, because of the complete lack of other records for that region.

The following people should be thanked. The list was sent to me by the president of the Gombin Society, Mrs. Mindy Prosperi, who received the lists as a contribution from Jeremy Freedman.

Galina Shuster volunteered to translate it from Russian for no payment. The Gombin Society is very grateful to Galina and congratulates her for the wonderful work of translation accomplished.

I have edited and transliterated the material. I am including An explanation of the list:

- It includes patronymics, which were transliterated by me as "father name".- LEWKOWICZ was transformed as father's name: Lewek. The original list includes also Poles, whose names were not included in the translation.

- The list has an ordinal number assigned to each voter, which appears in the transliterated data but I sorted the database according to Surname.

- The database does not include the field in the original list which states the reason for the voter's qualification --such as"owner, merchant, self-employed".

Anyone who is interested in the original list may request it from Error processing SSI file
and I shall send it with pleasure.

Duma Czarist Voters List for Gombin (Gabin)

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