[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] August and Lydia Kotke

[Gary Warner]

Emilie,

I do not know if I am correct in what follows regarding your family, but 
there is a Tomaszowski powiat south of Chelm.   That is equivalent to a 
county in the USA.   If that is the place referred to in the ship list, 
then that is like saying that they were from a county in the USA.   That 
narrows if down from all of Poland, but it is still a large area to poke 
in hay stacks.

I am not saying that you will not find what you seek online, but most of 
Poland is not yet online so far as indexed records.   There are lots of 
Kotke surnames in the Lublin records in the database currently being 
created (see 
http://sggee.org/research/parishes/lublin_records/lublinsearchinstruct.html), 
but you will have to provide some additional data to see if your family 
is really there- I do not see them in the posted data.   Was Lydia also 
a Kotke by birth?   If not, what was her maiden name?

I see Lydia and her children in the St. Albans border crossings and the 
Halifax passenger lists as well, but neither of those lists indicates 
the name of the town of residence in Poland.   I will send you those 
lists separately.

You say that a child got their birth certificate from Chelm.   What was 
the child's name and birth date?

Gary Warner

On 5/14/2012 2:49 PM, Emilie Whitson wrote:
> Thank you- I see the record and Ancestry has translated it as Tomaschewka, but I've found in the Gazetteer there is a Tomaszowka, Chelm, Lubelskie so I am going to assume this may be the correct village. Any ideas where I can go from here online?   		 	   		
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