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Submitted by Caryn Gail Wariner

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 11/17/2013 4:18 PM
Family Surname: Weisinger
Country: Romania
Town: Czernowitz
Date of Image: 1916
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Can someone please help me translate the following Old German word. I think it is where my great grandfather may have been born. It was on his death record.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Caryn Weisinger Wariner

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On  Response 
11/17/2013 8:53 PM I cannot read the two words completely.
But I am fairly sure the first letter of the first word is D or possibly L
The little circle above the word is instead of a dot above an i
The second word starts either with a capital S or a small f
It looks like a Romanian name and the last three letters are: rie

I suggest you look at a map of Bukowina from that time
and look for a place name which fits these letters.

Mimi
11/18/2013 11:31 AM I think it might be Gura Humoru (the first letter in your name is actually a "Q").

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