[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help needed

[Jerry Frank]

Actually, Kolmar was known as Chodziez, a slight but significant 
difference to Chodecz.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca





At 06:40 PM 28/12/2008, Sue Eipert wrote:
>Hi Cathy,
>
>Thanks, Cathy, but actually, it was Anna Kopp (not my Radtke ancestors)
>that came from the Chodecz area, and Chodecz is in Central Poland, south
>of Wloclawek, not in Posen.
>
>Thanks anyway!
>
>Sue
>
>Cathy Walters wrote:
> > Hi Sue, I'll just make a coment but lisson to the other too. I belive
> > Chodecz is Kolmar that used to be in Posen,Germany Radtke is a very
> > comon name from there,where I live in Elgin,MN this family was from
> > Kolmar-(Radtke)but none of their family is into genealogy-I had happened
> > to worked on Trinity Ev.Luth.Church Centennial book back in 1994& in
> > Jankendorf church records,LDS looking for my family.Cathy
> >
> > */Sue Eipert <seipert at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I am very interested to hear that your immigrant Adaline Rinas
> >     immigrated to join a Kopp (Adolf) in Chicago (South Chicago). My
> >     grandparents (Anna Kopp and Johann Radtke) each immigrated
> >     separately to
> >     this area, were married there in 1905, had some sons (including my
> >     father) and lived there until 1911. The neighborhoods in the
> >     southeastern corner of Chicago my grandparents lived in are called
> >     South
> >     Chicago and Eastside.
> >
> >     My grandmother immigrated to South Chicago in 1902 to join her brother
> >     Frederick (Fritz) Kopp. Their brother Gustav joined them in 1906. They
> >     came from Zakrzewek, in the parish of Chodecz in central Poland. I know
> >     of a few other Germans who immigrated from Poland to this part of
> >     Chicago. The names include: Kopp, Radtke, Lau, Sommerfeld, Lutke.
> >     Bleich, Roman, Reichenbach, Damer. I've always been interested in
> >     learning the circumstances that caused them to move here. The ones I
> >     know about were mostly single men or women, or traveled here without
> >     their families, and they worked in the steel mills, boarding houses, or
> >     breweries in the area.
> >
> >     Do you know anything more about Adolf Kopp, or Daniel Kopp, who is
> >     listed in the Ellis Island record as Adaline's closest 
> relative (uncle)?
> >
> >     There is a lot of information about the area at
> >     http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sesidewlcme.html
> >
> >     Here's an interesting sidenote about the church where my grandparents
> >     were married: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (at 91st and
> >     Burley/Superior). In 1946 it was purchased by a baptist congregation,
> >     and was the location of a famous gospel music scene from the original
> >     Blues Brothers movie. (http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/setourp17.htm)
> >
> >     Susan Radtke Eipert
> >     seipert2 at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >     hhowell wrote:
> >      > Hi
> >      > Could someone read an Ellis Island record for me. I have been
> >     trying to determine the spelling of two village names in the record.
> >     The record is on 2 pages, the first page shown and the previous page.
> >      >
> >      > The record is for Adaline Rinas age 19 immigrated in 1912.
> >      >
> >      > Adaline's last place of residence is listed as Scoiniar, Russia.
> >     I am not sure if the record is as listed.
> >      >
> >      > Her birth place on the previous page is listed as Dobrrychow.
> >      >
> >      > I cannot locate a place like Scoiniar in Poland (Russia).
> >      >
> >      > There are several similar names for Dobrrychow. I am reasonably
> >     sure the two villages are near each other.
> >      >
> >      > Adaline Rinas's last residence was with a Kopp. She was going to
> >     Adolf Kopp, Chicago. Do the names sound familiar to anyone? Family
> >     story is that she was an orphan.
> >      >
> >      > Any help is appreciated.
> >      > Herschuel Howell
> >      >
> >
> >