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Hello Adam, the following site provides some information about the Duma Voter Lists which may help.
https://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/lists/duma.htm

Hello Gabriel, Your ancestors were Jews. The Jewishgen Belarus Special Interest Group has a lot of information which will be helpful to you, including what Jewish records are available, plus via Jewishgen's Family Finder you can find others who are researching your shtetl and/or your ancestors: http...

Hello Gabriel, I doubt that on the Web you'll find genealogically specific information about Kossovo. To obtain genealogy information you need to perform research. This is accomplished by, among other ways, contacting various archives and local registry offices in Belarus and archives in Russia (e.g...

Hello Gabriel, Here are two maps which help show the areal extent of Belarus' current oblasts (provinces/regions) and the areal extent of the relevant old Russian Empire guberniya: Current Oblasts: http://www.president.gov.by/eng/map/mapadm.shtml Relevant Russian Guberniya: http://feefhs.org/maps/ru...

Today, Kossovo is in the Ivatsevichi district (raion) of Brest oblast:

Gabriel Kunik wrote: ↑14 Jul 2002, 02:00 Finally, where are you from?

I reside in Silver Spring, Maryland USA

Hello Gabriel, Kosow Polski is Kossovo. Here is MapQuest map showing its location: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?zo ... =H8XQarYth

In the Verkhustie thread is a Polish map.

Hello Basia, The US Library of Congress has several excellent map series covering Belarus. The old Russian, Prussian maps and Polish maps are excellent (i.e., great scales). Soviet Union maps are also available.

Sergei, thank you for the referral. I will contact Oleg.

Locations of Verkhustie and Ostrovka (actually Ostrovok) have been found. The following Polish map has them (see northwest of "Janow"): Wierchuscie/Wierzchuscie is Verkhustie and Ostrowok/Ostrowek is Ostrovok. http://people.netscape.com/morse/barg/polish.gif Anybody located in Grodno who c...

Where is, or where was, the village of Verkhustie (Ivanovo district) located? Also a village of Ostrovka, which was also in the Ivanovo district.