Brian Burg's comment where we wrote that he believed his family came from Suwalki points out one of the challenges when describing such places in Eastern Europe where not only has so much changed but where communities and regions also shared the same name. When Brian writes Suwalki, is he referring to the city or the region? Furthermore, depending upon the time frame (I am thinking of the period of the Lithuanian-Polish empire) then I believe that one could also include southwestern Lithuania as a part of Suwalki. Apparently the name came from Suvaikja, a small region in southwest Lithuania, abutting Poland, whose unofficial capital was Marijampole, just a few miles from Vilkaviskis, where my Koenigsberg family came from. Words do matter, and as we know, the devil is always in the details. -- Jeremy G Frankel ex Edgware, London, England Berkeley, California, USA EBIN: Russia, New York, USA FRANKEL: Poland, London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland, London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, London, England, NYC, NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland, London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland, London, England, NYC, NY, USA