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    Need Some Help Finding My Grandmother’s Address


    Hello friends! My little brother and his gf are currently in Tallinn and I would love to surprise them with our grandmother’s childhood address. I have her ID card, but I’m having a hard time figuring out where she lived exactly. Especially since times have changed considerably since 1927 and I’m not exactly up to date on my historical maps of Tallinn, Estonian, or current/historic administrative districts. Basically I’m relatively useless other than Google searches (which in English, doesn’t get you very far). If any of you can help me out and give me some insight into solving this puzzle, it would be very greatly appreciated.

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    5. Fun_Load_7205 on

      It looks like Wilmsi. There is a street named Vilmsi in Kadriorg. Jüri Vilms was a politician who was involved with Estonian independence in 1918. Maybe the name was with “w” back in the day.

    7. EtherealSnowbird on

      I think it’s supposed to be Wilmsi Street 5-5, meaning the house number is 5 and apartment number is also 5.

      And Wilmsi street is most likely Jüri Vilmsi Street (it was also named that in 1927), because V was very often and usually written as W in those days. I can even find old newspaper articles that spell it like that and that talk about Jüri Wilms, not Vilms like it’s written today. Distric 2 also seems to fit.

      Unfortunately Vilmsi Street 5 is a relatively modern business building nowadays, built in 1998. The old house is destroyed.

    10. Wooden-Law-2272 on

      To be fair, my handwriting is atrocious and I pity the historians of the 2100s or beyond if anything I wrote ever makes it into an archive (not that that there’s any reason documents from my boring life would end up in an archive, and I type way more than handwrite these days anyway)…but from my own perusal of family records in the national archives, some of that old-timey script is *really* hard to decipher, even language barriers aside! 🙂