[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] August and Lydia Kotke

[Emilie Whitson]

I have found that Lydia's maiden name was Betker. It was her daughter, Emilie Kotke (Otke) that sent away for her birth certificate to Chelm- (I think she needed it for a passport later in life) She was born in about 1908.

 
 > Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:27:21 -0700
> From: garyw555 at gmail.com
> To: this_is_emilie at hotmail.com
> CC: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] August and Lydia Kotke
> 
> 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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