[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Suwalki

[Jerry Frank]

I could not find an exact match for Pojawia anywhere.

On the assumption that it might be near Sudawsky, I used ShtetlSeeker to 
search all places within a 30 mile radius beginning with the letter 
P.  Believe it or not, there are 190 such villages scattered throughout 
Poland, Lithuania, and Russia.

The closest match I could find was 12 miles NNW of Sudawsky, a village that 
has the following variant spellings:

Pajavonio / Pajavonys / Pajevonio / Pajevonys / Payevonis / Pajevon'

On an East Prussia map (though it would have been just east of the border) 
you can see it as Pajevonis.
http://www.webarchiv-server.de/pin/landkarte/karte158.htm

You can browse through this list of 190 places yourself by using the 
"Distance" option on:
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm




At 06:38 PM 31/03/2003 +0000, Dr. Harry Stossun wrote:
>H. Stossun
>Ratzeburg
>Germany
>
>
>I am new in this list and I need information about two villages in 
>Suwalki, where my grand grandparants came from. My grand grandfather was 
>born in 1901 in Sudawsky and his wife came from Pojawia. She was born 
>there 1898. I found Sudawsky in a map, but not Pojawia. Has anybody 
>information to which church this villages belonged and where I can get the 
>church records?
>I am new in family research and hope for help.
>Thank you!
>Harry

Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca