Identifying ancestral towns - JewishGen Town Finder/Communities vs Gazetteer

[Bette Stoop Mas bette.sscf@gmail.com]

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Bette Stoop Mas
USA

MODERATOR NOTE: Bette Stoop Mas is expanding here on a response she gave
a couple of weeks ago to a ViewMate post reading: "I'm trying to determine
the correct town name, and therefore its location, of: Malke PELLER,
mother of both Wigder and Lea. JRI-Poland extraction says Pohorlowka, but
I cannot locate it in the town finder or communities database. The
father's (Chune REINSTEIN) town is Kudrynce." This is a more generally
applicable, and more comprehensive, summary of the options available on
the JewishGen website.
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