Meine Tante hat mir nur das Reiseprotokoll für meinen Urgroßvater gegeben. Er kam 1912 aus Litauen in die USA. Unter der Stadt oder in der Stadt beginnt es mit W. Ich kann in Litauen nicht anscheinend eine Stadt finden, die mit W beginnt. Gibt es alte Städte, die es nicht mehr gibt?
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Von Lil_Chaski
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There’s no W in our alphabet.
It’s probably V just American border officers wrote it as they heard. I can’t read that handwriting, but i am sure someone will be able to recognize what’s written there..
My best gues is „Vainiūnai“.
Probably a scam
For me it looks like Wojniūny [https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojniuny](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojniuny)
Could also be Vainiūnai [https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaini%C5%ABnai_(Seirijai)](https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaini%C5%ABnai_(Seirijai)) or [https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaini%C5%ABnai](https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaini%C5%ABnai)
The former Vainiūnai is near the Polish border and back in those days W and SZ (Polish SH sound) were used in writing Lithuanian.
Written in a Polish manner hence the W. If it says „Wojniuny“ as pointed out by other people, that’s just the Polish transliteration of „Vainiūnai“
Thank you everyone. It’s greatly appreciated! Now I can do some reading on it.