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Pilski Russia? #names
Steven Granek
Below is the entry for "last residence" on my Great Aunt’s ship manifest. It appears to me to be “Pilski” or perhaps “Piloki" - Russia. But I am having no luck finding this place on Jewishgen - Gazetteer or or Town search. No iuck with various other searches, either. Just in case the following adds any additional clues - I had previously written that my Grandmother (this person’s sister) was - per her 1920 US Census - from “Grodno”, yet per her husband’s Petition for Naturalization, she was from “Niveravitzk, Russia” - a place that no one so far has been able to make any sense of.
So - Pilski Russia? Piloki Russia?
Thank you in advance.
Steve Granek |
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Frank Szmulowicz
Perhaps, it is
Nesvizh, Niasviž (Belarusian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Also, Russki could be Ruski = Russian and Pilski a misspelling of Polski = Polish, denoting perhaps dual national origin, as the area was a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before being occupied by the Russian Empire. Frank Szmulowicz |
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