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Left image: Chausy/Чаусы - Detail from a 1926 Russian Military map, sourced from Indiana University Bloomington's collection: https://digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/n8710x07k?locale=en Right image: Herschel Danilovich and his son, Kirk Douglas: https://www.myheritage.com/research?s=-2&action=query&formId=master&formMode=1&qname=Name+fn.Herschel+fnmo.1+fnmsvos.1+fnmsmi.1+ln.Danielovitch+lnmo.3+lnmsdm.1+lnmsmf3.1+lnmsrs.1&qbirth=Event+et.birth+ey.1883+me.1+epmo.similar&q

February 15, 2017: Julius Pranevičius, then Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in New York, with Andrew Kapochunas and his wife, Aileen Bassis, at the opening of Andrew's exhibition: "300+ Years of Lithuania on Maps, 1552-1862," at the Lithuanian Consulate in New York. On April 10, 2026, Julius Pranevičius became Lithuania's new Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations in New York City, replacing Rytis Paulauskas, who became the Republic of Li

https://lietuvoskartografija.lt/lithuanianmaps/index.php/my-articles-about-maps-and-stamps-of-lithuania/ As I prepare for the inevitable shutting down of the static website LithuanianMaps.com (in 2027?) and for its successor site: https://lietuvoskartografija.lt/lithuanianmaps/ to be the sole location of the 4,300+ map images and text I created from 2008-21, I want to make certain that all the articles I have written, all the map-related presentations I have given, and

Detail, 1891 Rand McNally "Europe" map, showing locations of three towns to be searched. https://www.loc.gov/ I've been helping people for over a decade to find their ancestral Eastern European villages, focusing on the area of historical Lithuania. Either they just wanted to know where their village was, or they wanted an image of their town on an antique map for use on a village-specific website. But after recent Zoom presentations to JewishGen’s LitvakSIG group and the St