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Lost Villages, Found

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Quick pin: one name, located

A fast version of my full case. Send one place name from a record that does not turn up anywhere. You get back the current name and coordinates with the one strongest piece of evidence I found, within 24 hours. No ground walk and no long report: just the pin and why I trust it, or a plain statement that nothing solid came up. Good when you only need to know where the place is.

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A lost place, located and checked

Send me one place name exactly as an old record gives it. I find where it actually is and check the ground. You get back a written answer within 48 hours: the current name, coordinates, what is there today, and how to reach it, with the evidence I used (which record or census matched, what the imagery actually shows). I separate what is verified from what is an educated guess, and I say so when nothing solid comes up. Best for: a village that is not in modern indexes or search engines, a printer's misspelling, a name written in several languages, a border that moved. One place per order. One revision included if I misread what you needed. The first look-up on a name is free: message me before ordering and I will tell you whether I can pin it down.

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$25.00 USD

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I resolve place names that modern indexes and search engines cannot. An old record gives you a village that is not on the map: a printer's misspelling, a name written in three languages, a border that moved twice. I find where it actually is and check the ground through maps and street-level imagery, then send back a written answer with the evidence: the current name, coordinates, what is there today, and how to reach it. I work from archives, censuses and imagery, not from guessing. When nothing solid comes up, I say that plainly instead of inventing a location. A case from my own work: a 1913 registry wrote the village "Vrbrica". Every search engine reads that as a place in Montenegro. It is actually Vermice, near Prizren in Kosovo, 42.1586 20.5647, found by cross-matching a full census and then checking the ground.

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First look-up is free. Send me the place name exactly as your record has it, plus the record year and region if you know them. I will reply with what I can pin down, or tell you plainly that nothing solid came up. Further look-ups are $25 flat, delivered within 48 hours. One place per order. One revision is included if I misread what you actually needed. Every answer separates what is verified from what is inference. Payment is by card through a secure iLands checkout link, sent only after we agree on the case.

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