Tomczyk, Kolbuszowa, does anyone know what/where Colby Soba, Austria might be?

My great grandfather was Jakub Tomczyk, who I think came from the district of Kolbuszowa in (Galicia) Poland, but on a form he filled out years later, he put his place of birth as Colby Soba, Austria (Nov 1881.)

I can't find Colby Soba anywhere online. Does anyone have any idea what this is?

Thanks so much for any help or suggestions on this!

Colby Soba seems like a sound alike of Kolbuszowa.

Anyway. It's 17 miles NW of Rzeszów.

I just searched Google.at for you and found this as my first hit:


Translation: Place of birth Kolbuszowa/Galicia (Austria-Hungary, today: Poland)

My guess he was born there when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was in charge of Poland makng him Austrian. But definitely born in Poland. :)

Oh, also, anyone know about the Austrian Cavalry around 1900?

According to family stories my great grandfather Jakub Tomczyk went AWOL (deserted) from the military (cavalry) to emigrate to the US. I am having a hard time finding out any details about the military at the time. He came from Galicia and puts his place of birth as Austria, so I assume it would be Austrian, but I don't know for sure. I don't know the exact date he left, though he was married in the US by 1909. Any military experts out there?

Thanks!

Austria is a false lead. He might show up on some documents as being Polish.

Check the Genealogy Thread for possible links.

For Galacia go to Jewishgen.

deserter?
wow...that's not honorauble.

If he was Polish and drafted to foreign army... ?

Try seaching the ancestry.com website using his surname. You may strike lucky and get a match and then be able to get what he put as his former place of residence together with nearest family member.

Wow, thanks for all the quick replies. And BTW, Blackadder, from what I know I don't think he was a particularly nice or honorable person -- but we don't know his reasons for leaving the military at least...

I did know about the Galicia history (though I learned it only recently since I just started on this branch of the family tree.)

Peter, I am registered on Ancestry.com, which is where I found the "Colby Soba" -- it's been a great source so far!

And, now that you mention it Wroclaw and Hueg, you're probably right, it was just somebody's best approximation of Kolbuszowa, which is where he was from. Thanks for clearing up that mystery! I don't speak Polish so I didn't realize that it would sound so much the same.

sorry too much of Sun Tzu for me I suppose...
he must have got good reasons for deserting,because penalty for deserting was death