[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] RE: Location of the village of Popomusz

[Jerry Frank]

At 01:38 PM 29/08/2004, Alfred Kroll wrote:
>On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 03:00  PM, 
>ger-poland-volhynia-request at eclipse.sggee.org wrote:
>
>>I am trying to locate the village of Popomusz, Ruspia.
>>
>>The village of Popomusz, Ruspia is listed as the birth place of Eduard Fenske
>>in the immigration records, Ellis Island.  Date of immigration is June 19,
>>1912.
>>
>>Jerry Frank has tried to locate it for me but had not been able to locate it.
>>Has anyone heard of this villiage?
>>
>>Herschuel Howell
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Per your question regarding the village of Popomusz, Ruspia, I checked the 
>Ellis Island records for Eduard Fenske. I found that he arrived in New 
>York on June 19, 1912 as you indicated but the record shows he came from 
>Witaszyn, Ruspia, not Popomusz. The record indicates the Witaszyn is near 
>Plock. I never heard of Ruspia. Perhaps it was meant to be Russian Poland. 
>Eduard's destination appeared to be Bridgeport, Connecticut.


Actually the writer wrote the double s in the old style form similar to 
"sf".  The extractor took it to be "sp".  The correct country of course is 
Russia, not Ruspia.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca