When looking for places names, try JewishGen ShtetlSeeker, and use the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex. Shtetl is Yiddish for town. ( JewishGen is located at www.jewishgen.org ). The only town found matching Keturvalakin in the area you mention is: KETURVALAKIAI 54'33" 23'09" Lithuania 87.1 miles W of Vilnius Variant spellings: KETURVALAKIU KETURVALAKYAY KETURVLOKI KIETURWLOKI Regards, David Sotkowitz Norman Charnley wrote: > > I have recently acquired some identity papers of my great-grandmother's, > in which she gives her birthplace as Keturvalakin, Sewalki - at least > that is the name which was written down by the official concerned, so > the spelling is a little suspect. I would be grateful if anybody could > give me some more detailed indication of where this is - is it a > village, or a part of Suwalki, or a region? > > I know the family came to England from the Kalvaria-Suwalki area in the > 1880s, but this gives me the chance to pinpoint their origin a little > more closely. > > Many thanks, > > Norman > > ================================================= > Dr. Norman Charnley > Department of Earth Sciences > University of Oxford > Oxford OX1 3PR, UK. > ==================================================