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Category: Interpretation
Approval Date: 1/28/2026 1:54 PM
Family Surname: Solomon Levine Death Certificate
Country: Lithuania
Town: Vilna
Date of Image: 1927

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My maternal grandfather's death certificate from Jersey City, NJ, 1927. Need help with the area "in, around" Vilna,(Lithuania) Russia where he, and my great grandparents were born. The spelling seems to be Skungins, for this town/area but am not able locate.

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1/28/2026 10:46 PM

Suppose we read it as Shnupis or Shnupies

Focusing on Vilna in the JewishGen Commnunities Databae, the first place in the list of nearby places is Šnipiškės, which according to the note is "A suburb of Vilna".

Not a perfect match in any way, but not improbable either.

1/30/2026 11:03 PM

If there's more of this handwriting on the other side of the form, it might be useful to compare letters and try to figure it out.

The clerk recording the name of the place wrote what they heard, and if the person who reported it had a strong Yiddish accent, it could have affected what was heard.

Do you know the names of his parents? If they were Lejzer and Etlia, there's an Abraham Levine born in Snipiskes on 19 October 1882. Having said that, though, I'm not sure it can be an h after the S, looking at the way h is written here in Abraham.

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