Another puzzle for your consideration

[Curt F. Woolhiser]

Could it perhaps be Shavli (the Russian form of Lithuanian Siauliai)?


Quoting Helena Tolstoy <tolstoy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL>:

> Savelovo?
>
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> Seelangs people in the past have been very helpful in suggesting solutions
> to
> questions raised on another list I am on, specifically a Jewish
> genealogy list.  As you
> may imagine, many questions arise of Slavic interest.
> Someone has discovered on pre-WW I immigrant US entry docs the location
> Savil, Russia.  Although the list has a program that will take
> distorted English spellings
> and suggest possible matches in other parts of the world, nothing has
> come up for this.
> Any ideas, anyone?
> Keep in mind that all sorts of distortions are possible, alphabetic
> as phonetic.
> Jules Levin
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