Sunday, July 5, 2009

Uses of the Internet -part 2

I just found a town I'm looking for, basically.

Online there was a map of Lithuania 1867-1914, during a time of Russian rule.
Kovno Guberna (Kovno Province), was the northern half of modern Lithuania, and was broken down into seven districts (uyezds).
Each district had a chart of the towns within that district. One of the towns was Šilalė, which was the Lithuanian name for the town of Shalel.

Shalel is the town I'm looking for.

Šilalė was in the district of Šiauliai (district name in Yiddish, Shavl).
Šiauliai is a city on the modern Lithuanian map.

It's on the map, so I can get there.
Pretty directly, too, it looks like.

And Gorzd? Also in the Kovno province, but in the southwest part of the Telšiai district. In Lithuanian it is Gargždai, a city that happens to be about 10 miles from Klaipeda, on the coast with it beaches and spas...

(click to enlarge map)

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