[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help needed

[Sue Eipert]

Hello Howard,

I haven't seen the church records --I just have copy of my grandparents' 
marriage certificate.  I also have a transcription of their marriage 
record that was made in 1947 by the then-pastor of Zion Ev. (This 
document still had the same address; I guess the church building hadn't 
yet been sold).

Here is more information about the current church. There is an address 
to contact about records. I haven't really pursued it.
http://archive.elca.org/archives/chicagochurches/zionohio.html

Please let me know if you learn anything

Susan Radtke Eipert
seipert2@

Howard Krushel wrote:
> Hello Sue:
> Oral history has it that my great Aunt Karoline Topnick/Topnik(born
> 1870)immigrated in about 1889 from an estate in West Prussia near Loebau,
> and was supposed to have married and moved to Chicago.... was supposed to
> have married a Rakowski or Raschkowsky(not sure of the spelling); and I have
> been looking for her now for about 20 years; do you suppose the Zion
> Evangelical church might have her marriage record? (Bit like looking for
> that proverbial needle in the haystack); would the church records be held in
> an Archive? Karoline was German, probably Masurien German, that is German
> but originally of Polish extraction; they attended a Lutheran church in West
> Prussia.
> Thanks for your help, 
> Howard Krushel, Calgary, Canada 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Sue
> Eipert
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> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help needed
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am very interested to hear that your immigrant Adaline Rinas 
> immigrated to join a Kopp (Adolf) in Chicago (South Chicago). My 
> grandparents (Anna Kopp and Johann Radtke) each immigrated separately to 
> this area, were married there in 1905, had some sons (including my 
> father) and lived there until 1911. The neighborhoods in the 
> southeastern corner of Chicago my grandparents lived in are called South 
> Chicago and Eastside.
> 
> My grandmother immigrated to South Chicago in 1902 to join her brother 
> Frederick (Fritz) Kopp. Their brother Gustav joined them in 1906. They 
> came from Zakrzewek, in the parish of Chodecz in central Poland. I know 
> of a few other Germans who immigrated from Poland to this part of 
> Chicago. The names include: Kopp, Radtke, Lau, Sommerfeld, Lutke. 
> Bleich, Roman, Reichenbach, Damer. I've always been interested in 
> learning the circumstances that caused them to move here. The ones I 
> know about were mostly single men or women, or traveled here without 
> their families, and they worked in the steel mills, boarding houses, or 
> breweries in the area.
> 
> Do you know anything more about Adolf Kopp, or Daniel Kopp, who is 
> listed in the Ellis Island record as Adaline's closest relative (uncle)?
> 
> There is a lot of information about the area at 
> http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sesidewlcme.html
> 
> Here's an interesting sidenote about the church where my grandparents 
> were married: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (at 91st and 
> Burley/Superior). In 1946 it was purchased by a baptist congregation, 
> and was the location of a famous gospel music scene from the original 
> Blues Brothers movie. (http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/setourp17.htm)
> 
> Susan Radtke Eipert
> seipert2 at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
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