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From: "Betty L. Horn" <> (by way of Genealogy Records Service <>
Subject: Re: GenTips-D Digest V98 #141 / Where is this town????
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:46:13 -0800


by way of Genealogy Records Service <> wrote:
>
> I too am looking for a  town in the German area-- or Prussa. The town is
> FARMACH, or something that phoneticly is related, but I have my doubts of
> finding it. After two world wars, many local battles, plus a revolution or
> two, many local towns and hamlets were completely erased without a trace.
This
> problem has also happened in Russia and in the slavic states. So if records
> have been burned and towns have been erased, then how are we to trace our
> linages farther back? Anyone have any ideas???
> Try:
<http://www1.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm>http://www1.jewishgen.or
g/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm
It'll give you Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex for place names.

Good luck, Betty

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