[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for my Grandfathers History

[Jerry Frank]

At 08:07 PM 23/10/2006, Gladys L. Rogers wrote:
>Hello List:
>
>I am new to this list so I may not be checking on the right list.  I 
>am looking so see if anyone can help me determine my grandfathers 
>Russian name.
>
>He, Procup Semion Sapsky came over here from, we think, Buzuluk, 
>Kiev, Russia but when he arrived here whoever checked him in could 
>not understand his last name so it was shortened to "Sapsky".  We 
>know that that is not correct BUT don't know what to do to find the 
>correct name.  I am told that his last name was long with a lot of 
>letters BUT that's it.  We know that he was in the Russian Army and 
>went AWOL to the United States because he didn't like all the 
>killing, etc that was going on.  He was supposed to have left a 
>family there as well.
>
>Procup Semion Sapsky
>Born:  July 7, 1869
>Died:  March 21, 1962 in Galveston, Tx.
>
>His immigration papers say that he left Bremon, Germany on April 2, 
>1905 and arrived here May 1, 1905 on the SS Frankfort.  My mother 
>tells me he came into New York and traveled thru Canada and somehow 
>ended up in Galveston, Tx.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.  If not on this list then maybe you 
>could suggest the list that I should go to.
>
>Thanks in Advance!
>
>Gladys Stelter Rogers


Hi Gladys.

Regrettably I think this list does not serve your needs.  Our focus 
is on ethnic Germans from Volhynia and Russian Poland.

The Ellis Island website indicates that the SS Frankfurt only made 
intermittent stops there (only 9 between 1901 and 1910), none of them 
in 1905.  You will probably need to find a Ukrainian mailing list to 
post your question.  There are several at http://www.rootsweb.com 
.  If the family was Jewish, you can try http://www.jewishgen.org 
.  In any case, you will have to get a more accurate idea of when he 
came as the original passenger record may provide more detail.

Note that I also checked for arrivals of the Frankfurt at Canadian 
ports but none occurred until 1912.

I also could not find a Buzuluk near Kiev.  There is a place in 
Ukraine with that exact spelling much further south.  You can find it 
using http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca