----------------------------Original message---------------------------- There have been several qustions over the last few months on Eastern European place names. Here are two books that might help. By Gary Mokotoff, "Where We Once Walked: A Guide to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust" Teaneck, NJ, Avotaynu, 1991. 514 pages. This is an excellent book that includes many cross references from German, Polish, Yiddish, and Russian. Chester G. Cohen, Shtetl Finder: Jewish Communities in the 19th and early 20th Centuries in the pale of.... Los Angeles, Periday Co., 1980 145 pages with maps. (shtetl is a small town) There is a bibliography for Jewish genealogical research that includes more sources. If you are interested, please e-mail me. Michael Gold [log in to unmask] 416-591-2285