[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town

[Joe Pessarra]

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From: "Joe Pessarra" <joepessarra at suddenlink.net>
To: "Adelheid Bender" <asbender at telus.net>;
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Adelheid Bender" <asbender at telus.net>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 2:30 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town
>
>
> > I have an ancester Catharina Friederika Schmidt whose place of death is
> listed
> > as Alt Postal, Bessarabia.
> >
> > Does anyone know where that is?
> > Adelheid Bender
> >
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> Think this might be in the Ukraine.  JewishGen ShtetlSeeker at
> http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp has the following for
> Postal, using the "Is Exactly - Town Names with the precise Spelling"
search
> for all 31 Countries.  You can click on one of the map sites to see where
it
> is located.
>
> Town
> (Native names in BOLD) Coordinates Maps Country Distance/Direction from
> reference point 10 mile radius
> Postal', Poshtal', Dolinovka 46°02' 30°07' E M U G Ukraine  304.4 miles S
of
> Kyyiv 50°26' 30°31'
>
> Joe in Texas

Some other references:

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/nd_sd/kulmnd.html

http://www.grhs.org/vr/vcoordinators.htm

You might get some help on this last one from a village coordinator.  You
will have to join GRHS to find this info, I imagine.

Good luck.

Joe in Texas