If you just enter Tilsit in Google search engine you can click on Sovetsk-Kaliningrad Oblast-Wikipedia. This site will give you a pretty good overview of Tilsit. Scroll down to the bottom and on the left is a link Tilsit.com, you can click on this one too for more. Patsy Hand ----- Original Message ----- From: "judy petersen" <skigranny@gmail.com> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Klara Hubert and Johann Toleikis b. 1890 > Cory, I'm not related to any of those names, but I did find Tilsit on > Jewishgen.org, which is a great locator for all European towns, including > non-Jewish. Sovetsk is the older native name of Tilsit. Couldn't find > Schompetern. Tilsit is in present day Russia. > > If you have never used Jewishgen, go to www.jewishgen.org. At the top, > use > the dropdown for databases & click on town finder. New page - click on > Communities database. Then on search for places by name. You enter > Tilsit > & search all of Eastern Europe or confine your search to Russia. Either > will give you a few possibilites for the town name, in addition to it's > location, towns within a 10 mi radius, & choice of 3 maps to see the > location. > > I use Jewishgen all the time for my tiny Czech villages. Good luck. > Judy > in Alaska > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Cory Stimpson > <clstimpson74@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> Hi, I'm re-new to the list. I was browsing the archives to see if I >> missed >> anything in the last ten years, but that was taking too long. >> >> I'm trying to find info on Johann and Klara Hubert Toleikis from cousins >> who may still live in the area. Klara was my great grandfather's >> sister - >> Erich Otto Hubert. Their parents were Wilhelm Max Gottlieb Hubert b. >> 1865 >> and Hedwich Martha Dorothea Buettow Hubert b. 1867. The Hubert family >> lived >> in Tilsit (Sovetsk), and I have one reference that says the Toleikis >> family >> lived in Schompetern (?), but that does not show up on a map. >> >> Does anyone on the list happen to be a Toleikis or Hubert? Do you know >> what the actual town name of Schompetern may be? My family has not been >> able to find anything past the 1820s from this area; еще раз спасибо. >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Cory Stimpson >> >> Researching HUBERT, BUETTOW, RUDAT, KUDILSKI, MAYKUS, GEHRKE, BUNGE, >> SCHULTZ, BLUMEYER, RATZE, BERGMANN, MEYER >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message