[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Peterkoff

[Sigrid Pohl Perry]

Gary,

You also need to see what your relative says on census records, 
immigration ship manifests, etc. He may give more information on some of 
those documents. Some ship passenger lists indicate the names of family 
members left behind as well as the name of the village. Spelling can be 
erratic on these, but they can help you discover a region and often the 
name of another family member. If his parents also immigrated, their 
records could also be valuable.

Sigrid Pohl Perry

On 6/16/2012 4:07 PM, Stefan Düsterhöft wrote:
> ggomes at soundviewnet.com wrote on Sat Jun 16 2012 22:01:14 GMT+0200 (CEST)
>    
>> One of my Lang/Lange relatives lists his birthplace on his WWI Registration
>> form as "Peterkoff" .  He was born October 31, 1887 and is the son of Andrew
>> Lang/Lange and Ernestina Unknown.
>>      
>    
>> With this in mind, should I assume that "Peterkoff" is the same as Piotrkow
>> Pierwszy (Piotrokow), Lublin, Lubelskie??
>>      
> Gary,
>
> to my knowledge the Lublin Project database does not have any Lutheran
> Germans in Piotrkow Pierwszy and only few in the surrounding villages.
> "Piotrkow" usually refers to Gubernia piotrkowska, which included a
> large area with Germans living mainly in and around Łódź. See
> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubernia_piotrkowska
> As the records for 1887 from parishes Lublin and Rozyszcze have been
> indexed already and there seems to be no son to a Andreas Lang(e), I'm
> afraid you need to widen your search geographically.
>
> Stefan Düsterhöft
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