Mary, I have had great success with finding place names in gazetteers of the time period of the record. I would suggest looking in Google books for a Greece gazetteer circa 1920. Best of luck, Melissa www.finlayfamily.org > On Apr 6, 2017, at 1:01 AM, transitional-genealogists-forum-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Send TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM mailing list submissions to > transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/mailman/listinfo/transitional-genealogists-forum > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > transitional-genealogists-forum-request@rootsweb.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > transitional-genealogists-forum-owner@rootsweb.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Greek town/village (Mary Douglass) > 2. Re: Greek town/village (John Tracy Cunningham) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:31:59 +0000 (UTC) > From: Mary Douglass <mdoug_hm@yahoo.com> > To: Transitional Genealogists > <transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [TGF] Greek town/village > Message-ID: <106462798.281570.1491438719836@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Colleagues,I need help with finding a village/town in Greece which was written on a 1924 Declaration of Intention. It looks like Gevgolatio Massinias Greece. Google doesn't know about it, or it's terribly misspelled by the court clerk in Kansas. On the petition for naturalization it looks like Gergalatio.?Thanks!Mary Clement DouglassTranscribing & publishing Kansas genealogical records > "If you can?t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you?d best teach it to dance." ? George Bernard Shaw > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:29:19 +0800 > From: John Tracy Cunningham <johntc@gmail.com> > To: Mary Douglass <mdoug_hm@yahoo.com> > Cc: Transitional Genealogists > <transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [TGF] Greek town/village > Message-ID: > <CAAYfg-hd0k=NUw4nM0f69ap+w7QJOu8XAPN22PM=a1RkvkjH+Q@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Mary! > > Zevgolatio, Messenia, Greece. ???????????. Currently in Oichalia > ??????? municipality, > the seat of which is Meligalas ?????????. > > I searched for Gevgolatio in Google Maps. > > Regards > > John > Dubai > >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Mary Douglass <mdoug_hm@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Colleagues,I need help with finding a village/town in Greece which was >> written on a 1924 Declaration of Intention. It looks like Gevgolatio >> Massinias Greece. Google doesn't know about it, or it's terribly misspelled >> by the court clerk in Kansas. On the petition for naturalization it looks >> like Gergalatio. Thanks!Mary Clement DouglassTranscribing & publishing >> Kansas genealogical records >> "If you can?t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you?d best teach it >> to dance." ? George Bernard Shaw >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 11, Issue 109 > ****************************************************************