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Q. I’ve been trying to research a town in Poland that had a name change. (I seem to remember a Family Tree Magazine article on this topic.) I have two different spellings for this town and just can’t seem to find the new name.
A. The June 2004 Family Tree Magazine had a Now What? Q&A about Prussian place-name changes—including once-German towns that are now in Poland due to fluctuating national boundaries.
Also see the online index at www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html, which contains names of places in Poland and Russia, along with their previous German names, and search JewishGen’s Shtetlseeker, an online gazetteer of towns in Central and Eastern Europe.
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