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[Gladys L. Rogers]

Ok, thank you.  In that case, please unsubscribe me AND thanks for your
help.  It was much appreciated.

Gladys
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
To: "Gladys L. Rogers" <ittybit1948 at cebridge.net>;
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Cc: "Gladys L. Rogers" <ittybit1948 at cebridge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for my Grandfathers History


> 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
>
>