Translation of map of Turov

I used Google translate to translate the map. There is nothing on the map that indicates the Jewish shtetl area as far as I was able to translate. I do not speak read or write Belorussian and I don't even know the alphabet but thanks to technology you can get an idea of what things mean.

Byelorussian to English

плян m. турава - plan (?) Turov
умоўныя знакі - symbols

дарога - road
будынк - building
царква - church
спады узгоркаў - downs of the hills

умоўная рыска, вышэй якой распаложана навейшая частка турава - conditional risk, above which there are more than a new part of Turov

абалон - flood-plain
абалоньне - abbalone ? probably something to do with flood-plain probably

p. - рака - river
p. прыпяць - River Pripyat
p. струмень - River Flow (translation), strumień (transliteration)
p. язда - River Driving (translation), jazda (transliteration)

канава - ditch
крэпасьць - fortress
крэ пасьць - fast crack

балота - swamp
барысаглебскі магільнік - burial Sts
могілках - cemetary

чырвоная пл. - Red Square
вул. - street
вул. леніна - Lennin Street
кастрычніцкая - october
плошча - area
кастрычніцкая плошча - October Square

да р. у в. хольчыцы - to the village holchytsy

вул. камсамольская - Komsomol street
" луначарскага - Lunacharskogo street
" калініна - Kalinin street

поле - field

дарога - road
дарога у в. дварэц - road to the village palace
да р. у в. азараны - Azarian

"купа" - "pile"

map source: shtetl links

Chaim & Raisel Murofchick, with two of their children

My great-great grandparents, killed during WWII, with two of their children. Chaim owned a livery service in Turov, Russia (now part of Belarus). Chaim also appears on a list of registered voters and must have therefore owned some land. Chaim's father's name was Yudel and Yudel's father was Avrum.

Yahoo Small business webhosting is down

at the moment. What is interesting is that some of my sakraft.com blogs seem to be showing content, just not background images. I guess its good to not put all of your eggs in one basket (I ♥ blogger, except when it craps out too). When I try to go through the admin site to contact them it just leads me to a site-wide message:

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I just hope my database info is intact. I'm kind of afraid to attempt making a backup while the front end of my site(s) are still down...