[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ship Manifest Emil Schmidt Help With Location

[Jerry Frank]

Joan,

As mentioned in my previous post, I was puzzled by the district name 
Gusk which appears in your record.  In looking at my map of Powiat 
Sochaczow,  I saw that Ilow was shown as a principal town indicated 
by a solid dot enclosed by a circle.  I looked for other principal 
towns with the same designation and found Glusk in the far 
northeastern corner of the Powiat near the south bank of the Wisla 
River.  This is a short distance SW of Nowy Dwor.

2 km NW of Glusk is the village of Gniewniewice.  This is a known 
German settlement and I am quite certain that this is your 
Knewegoizet without too much stretching of changed letters and sound.

I would recommend that your first avenue of research be the records 
available for Nowy Dwor.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca




At 05:34 PM 19/03/2008, Joan wrote:
>Hello to the group,
>
>   My research generally concerns Germans from Russia in the central 
> area of Poland, Rypin to be specific.
>
>   However, recently, I discovered on ancestry.com that my 
> grandfather apparently had a
>   brother I was unaware of, who met him when he emmigrated to 
> Philadelphia.  This brother's name is Emil Schmidt. My mother told 
> me that she had relatives in the Philadephia area,
>   so this find excited me.  I did a search on ancestry to see when 
> and where Emil emmigrated to the USA, and it was in 1907 to Cleveland.
>
>   My hunch that he was indeed my grandfather's brother was 
> confirmed by the ship manifest
>   stating his father as Gottlieb Schmidt, the same as my grandfather.
>
>   What I cannot understand is the location that is listed.  Emil 
> Schmidt is about
>   eleven people down, just after the big group that is listed 
> together.  He is listed as 18 years old, a farm laborer, Russian 
> nationality, German ethnicity, Russian language, but the location 
> is one I have never heard of if I am reading it correctly.
>
>   I am inserting a link to the document and hope someone can read 
> this location better than
>   I am able.  I have not been able to find any place with this 
> spelling in the area I am familiar with, and now wonder if the 
> family may have moved to the Ukraine or Volga areas like many of 
> the other Germans from Russia in this group.
>
>   Here is the link:
>
>   http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e87/Softsong/EmilSchmidt.jpg
>
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>   Joan Allen
>