Friday, February 27, 2004

Interesting find

at my Cataloging job down in the Modern Greek Division - a British map from 1837 of the Bay of Smyrna that includes the Erythraean Peninsula, the region in which my father-in-law's ancestral village is located (in present-day Turkey, then Greek Ionia). Thus far my wife and I had been stymied in our efforts to pinpoint it exactly, since it's so small it doesn't appear on most maps, but this 19th Century chart has a village with a name that looks as if it might be the "Turkified" version of the Greek name. A lead! At some point we intend to go and visit, so it's exciting to think there might in fact be someplace to visit, even if it's just the remains of a village now.

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