[PW] trying to locate Lithuanian town

Linda J. Wadman lwadman at arrowhead.lib.mn.us
Thu Apr 3 09:10:22 PDT 2008


Go to the link Janice gave and do this search for a town:  Kaposvár
Check out the results.

At 10:55 AM 4/3/2008, Janice Sellers wrote:
>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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