[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village name of Pinelwatki, Russia

[Earl.Schultz]

I took a look at the original record and enhanced it.  The first letter is
likely a P although the S is similar but with only 1/2 a circle at the top.
The 2nd letter looks like an 'm' to me.  See 'maid' as an example but I also
see an 'ru' that is similar.  The ending is clearly 'walki' to me.  Jerry's
'd' is uncertain to me but a good guess.

I tried Prudwalki in ShtetlSeeker and came up with Prud Velikiy in Russia
which would have a similar sound I would think tho' not exact.

Earl

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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:35:25 -0700
From: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village name of Pinelwatki, Russia
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Geneen,

I looked at the original Ellis Island record and Pinelwatkia is a very 
poorly extracted attempt at what is written there.

I believe the place name should be something like P---walki (compare for 
example to passenger #13 who is from Suwalki).  The P at the beginning 
seems correct given how it is written with some other surnames and in 
Pittsburgh but I am not 100% certain.  Given that the loop on the d is 
not closed in other words (Adelgunde, Leopold, etc.) I would further 
guess at P--dwalki.

I did a search with ShtetlSeeker for all place names in Poland and some 
other countries containing "walki" and did not come up with a viable 
match.  Poland is the only country with places that have that suffix.  
There is a Powalki but it is not in what would have been Russia and the 
letters, in my opinion, do not fit.  Perhaps others on the list can give 
it a try.



Jerry Frank
Calgary, AB