[PW] trying to locate Lithuanian town

[Janice Sellers]

It is not only a matter of misspelling or misinterpretation, but also
of different pronunciations.  I would not be surprised if the patron's
ancestors were Jewish, and their pronunciation (and therefore phonetic
spelling) of the city name reflected a Yiddish pronunciation.  As an
example, the city of Kreuzburg was fairly consistently pronounced
Kreitsburg by Jews.

Janice Sellers

On 4/3/08, tina r <rawhous at gmail.com> wrote:
> A quick check of Google maps did not turn up a town by that name, but shows
>  a town named Kupiskis in Lithuania.  Given what I have seen of handwritten
>  documents from that time period (from an internship in an archives) and
>  haveing learned that the family and/or place names of immigrants were often
>  misspelled or misinterpreted, could this be the town your patron is seeking?