[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] To all

Jerry Frank jkfrank at shaw.ca
Sun Aug 25 18:41:58 PDT 2002


At 06:46 PM 24/08/2002 -0700, Ellen wrote:
>Is anyone family with the name Ziebart?
>Also my cousin has passport wherein is mentioned Kopinne, Prv.Wolinia and
>there is also a seal like Wgloswo Sopatki Pow Wabnrzeski.  Can anyone help?
>Could Sopatki be Lopatki?   Ellen


Jan has already answered the basic question.  I would just like to add that 
in old script German, the L and S can look very similar and it is easy to 
transliterate them incorrectly.  On that basis, yes - Sopatki could be Lopatki.




Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca



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