To identify locations and old city names can be a problem.


Browsing through databases you can face a problem how to identify old names of the towns and villages. Here you find few hints & tips on how to solve that. Try to combine "Shtetl" Seeker, Interactive Atlas, PlaceFinder, and Old Austro-Hungarian City Indexes as well.

Try to look here

MapQuest! Interactive Atlas
Very useful PlaceFinder - able to transcribe the names
Shtetl Seeker in Central/Eastern Europe
Very helpful database of Jewish Cemetery Project
Enourmous database on Austro-Hungarian Empire
Maps of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czech-German Index of Places
Bohemian Villages e.g. starting with P

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