Re: Where is this town, and does it still exsist??
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Re: Where is this town, and does it still exsist??
John Peters 12/11/02
John,
About 25 years ago I was in a used bookstore in Syracuse NY nosing around for some books.They had some captured WW II German military maps that the U.S government had sold to the public many years ago.
I asked the gentleman working in the store as to whether he had any maps of Lithuania and he looked puzzled.It took me a while to convey which country I meant as he was a native German speaker who had immigrated here after WW II.He finally figured out that Lietuva was really Litauen in German.
I purchased 4 or 5 maps.As luck would have it, none of them contain the birthplaces of my grandparents or father, though they come close.
One of the other groups I subscribe to (Lida SIG) had one of its members scan similar maps and put them up on their website.That might be something I could do once I buy a scanner.
Hope that answers your question.
Tom