[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Handwritten Cyrillic Help

[Jan Textor]

John,
It definitely looks like Karollina to me.
Jan Textor, Denmark

> 
> I have a little mystery that I need help with:
> 
> My Aunt Caroline's Name appears on a document that was used when 
> they immigrated to North America.
> 
> One "translation" of the document said that her name was 
> Karolina, but their Ellis Island record says that it was Catharina.
> 
> >From what I can piece together with my limited ability is that 
> the first four letters are KARO supporting the Karolina 
> translation but there seems to be too many letters following to 
> just make up LINA.
> 
> I thought someone here might be able to help me out.
> 
> A scan of the name can be found here:
> 
> http://johnrauchert.brinkster.net/rauchert/scans/carolinename.jpg
> 
> John F. Rauchert (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
> 
> RAUCHERT, HENKE, SCHLESE, RAPSCH, LITTKE