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From: "P.Sint" <>
Subject: Re: [AUSTRIA-L] Where is IGLAW and SZMESONI
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:41:06 +0100


At 23:54 Uhr -0500 17.12.1999, wrote:
>On an old letter we found the following cities. I am not sure of the spelling
>as the paper is wrinkled and fading. One is IGLAW-Austria and the other is
>SZMESONI- Czechoslovakia.Are these for real? and where are they located
>today?


Iglau (in Czech and today JiIhlava) is in Moravia, Czech Republic.

compare http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10561a.htm

map see http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/int/austria.htm

SZMESONI : search yourself in
http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker/loctown.htm
(find there also a link to Mapquest location of Jihlava)
candidates
SMIZANY 4858 2032 N Slovakia 166.0 miles ENE of Bratislava
SMECNO 5011 1403 N Czech Republic 19.7 miles WNW of Prague

All were in Austria before 1918


>Clutching at straws and eagerly awaiting the info.
>Ruby Uhazie

Peter Sint

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