[PW] trying to locate Lithuanian town

Janice Sellers janicemsj at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 08:55:23 PDT 2008


Drew,

My best guess is Kupiškis, 55°50' 24°58', 81 mi N of Vilnius.  I went
to http://www.jewishgen.org/ and searched in the Communities database
for pre-WWI Lithuania.

\Janice Sellers
Oakland, California

On 4/3/08, Andrew Cherven <DCherven at petoskeylibrary.org> wrote:
> We have a patron with immigration/naturalization papers for both his
>  father and grandfather, dated 1902, listing place of birth as
>  Kopishich/Kopisich, Lithuania. He would like to locate this place on a
>  map. None of our atlases, historic or otherwise, have been helpful. Also
>  checked the list of place names on www.fallingrain.com
>  <http://www.fallingrain.com/>  without success. Any ideas? Thanks.


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