Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:21 pm
Post subject: Town of Origin can't read
Hello! Is anyone able to decipher where the Sokolowski family is from? Lines 16-18
Thank you!
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:33 am
Post subject: Re: Town of Origin can't read
| nick3371 wrote: | Hello! Is anyone able to decipher where the Sokolowski family is from? Lines 16-18
Thank you! |
Hi Nick,
It is written a few times on the manifest, which helps. As you see from the first page, in column 11, after the name of the town is "g. Suwalki" where the "g" means gubernia.
Here is a map of that gubernia:
https://polona.pl/item/gubernia-suwalska,Nzk3NTM1Nzc/
To my eyes, the town as written on the manifest is "Posupy."
Take a look at the map and see if anything looks like that. I do not see it. Perhaps you can find another map, with a scale that shows even smaller towns.
Good luck,
Sophia
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:36 am
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Thank you Sofia! Are any records available for those places online?
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:49 am
Post subject: Re: Town of Origin can't read
| nick3371 wrote: | Hello! Is anyone able to decipher where the Sokolowski family is from? Lines 16-18
Thank you! |
The place name provided in column 11 is probably Poniki/Ilgow (Ilguva) which is in Lithuania.
This would need to be verified against some other sources.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:58 pm
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Thank you Fantom! Is this the same village as Posupy?
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:18 am
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Hi Nick,
The two town names that I gave you, Posejny and Pozopsie, are names that I found on the website I gave you a link to, which gives towns from the Suwalki gubernia.
The town that Fantom provided was not on that list, and it inspired me to look a bit further afield to see if I could find another potential "Posupy" for you to research. I found Pošupės in today's Lithuania. You can go to google maps and see Posejny, Poniki (Ilguva) and Pošupės.
You will have to look around (FamilySearch website, etc.) to see if you can find records for these places.
Good luck with your search,
Sophia
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 7:15 am
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| nick3371 wrote: | | Thank you Fantom! Is this the same village as Posupy? |
Posupy would be located in another governorate (probably Gubernia Kowienska), 200 km
north of Ilguva.
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