I don't have much experience in Lithuania, but in Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, names have not just changed languages but been renamed by various invading cultures. So a village in Poland might have an original Polish name, a German name, a Russian name, and, if it still exists, it's Polish name again. The former Czechoslovakia was an amalgam of several cultures: Bohemian, Austrian, German, and Russian. Same process. Here's another place to try. geonames.usgs.gov (no www) On the left, select foreign names, then GEOnet Names Server (GNS), then GNS search. Now, on the GeoNames Search page, select Lithuania from the box, top center. You'll have to try the ADM1 Names that pop up below it for each of your names. http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/ Note that you can search by the starting letters of the name and search without diacritics. Take a good look at this page and try the several varieties of searches shown below. By the way, for places in the USA that might be old towns, try geonames.usgs.gov and select domestic names on the left. That old town might now be a cemetery, a church, a school, or still a populated place. You can input name and state, and it gives you county, coordinates, and even maps. The US Geodetic Survey and the National Geospatial-Intelligence agency people do a fine job. If you're a Google person, enter the two words gnis search for the domestic search site. Finally, if your Family History Center still has gazetteers on microfiche, try finding one for Lithuania. Good luck to you. Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a look at the Shtetlseeker at http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp Search in Eastern Europe using the Daitch Motokoff soundex search method and you will see that there are several towns similar to Trotzki in both Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. Now to figure out which one is the right one...Good Luck, Carrie in VA __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7242 (20120622) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com