The Population and Immigration Authority (part of the Ministry of Interior Affairs) provides a service to locate any resident of Israel. It is inexpensive (15 NIS) and they can try and locate a person

I recommend Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern's excellent article about the subject at YIVO: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Military_Service_in_Russia

The Yiddish term would be: דער תחום המושב, pronounced: Der t'hum ha-moy-shəv (from Hebrew תחום המושב)

Other than looking for their names in JewishGen, I would also look at: genteam.eu They have some records about conversions in Austro-Hungary.

Hi, I don't have the list for Smela, but I'm curious about your website. I have ancestors in Kaniv and the area (Rashba and Dogilevski/Dovgolevsky). Assaf

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Have you tried: GeneaSearch ? You can also find the originals on Family Search, but I believe that the first website has most if not all of the records indexed.

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Hi, I don't have the list for Smela, but I'm curious about your website. I have ancestors in Kaniv and the area (Rashba and Dogilevski/Dovgolevsky). Assaf

#ukraine