I am looking for David Goldberg born in Wadzi in 1882. When I enter Wadzi in the communities database of Jewishgen I get that the only name that is "phonetically like" Wadzi is Veisiejai or Wieisieje in Southeastern Lithuania, near the Polish and Belarus borders. This does not look correct to me, but I do not speak Lithuanian, Russian, Polish or Belarus. There seems to be a word in German similar to Wadzi. Anybody that can help?
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Angel Kosfiszer

Richardson, Texas

Lithuanian town names have 'odd' endings. We are used to Vilna, but now it is Lithuania, it is Vilnius. But Wadzi is not particularly like either of those.

In the Jewishgen Gazetteer, there are a lot of potential towns similar to Wadzi, the most like it is Veržej, now in Slovenia. Do you know the area they lived?

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

-- His wife was born in Lithuania, so I expect he also lived in and aournd Lithuania.

Angel Kosfiszer

Richardson, Texas