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Is my family surname (Reslofsky) Polish? [18]
Hi, Thanks that is so nice of you to offer help. I have looked quite a bit on Ancestry.com and have found very little. My great grand mother is Julia Reslofsky, Restofsky, Rostofsky, or Rofstke (these are all the different spellings we have uncovered from old family and documents. The Reslofsky seems to be the most likely so far. Julia was born July 17, 1865 somewhere in Prussia. Her parents were Joesph ad Elizabeth. She married Wilhelm Richard Albert Lippert, who was born february 8, 1862 in Blankensee, county of Randow, District of Stettin which is now near the Polish border. He was in prussian army 1884-1886 ( I have the certificate, which verifies his birth date and place.) He (they) lived in Kreuz, in 1889, which is now Krzyz, Poland, 80 km NW of Poznan City. They both immigrated to the USA together or separately about 1890. I checked hundreds of ship logs and found nothing. Julia gave birth to my grand mother in verona, North Dakota 1891. Wilhelm was supposedly killed by lighting in a field 1894 and Julia married Homer Fitzsimmons a year later. I have info. on Homer and her in a ND census, but nothing from Prussia. I recently sent an Email to the Poznan archives and they found no immigration entries on "Lippert." Now I am looking for military records and trying to contact someone from the above cities to further research!! what a job! I will hopefully get more info. from some of Julia and Homer's daughter's in the USA. The Canadian passage idea seems to make sense since ND is near there. Well, Bookratt, you are moving to the oldest city in Poland, dates back to the 4th century, how cool is that going to be! The pics look beautiful. Good Luck in all you do. Gary
you are right Patrycja19, As with any investigation, it is sometimes the most insignificant detail that leads to solving a mystery. We sometimes need to utilize the most unconventional methods to arrive at a conclusion as well. Strange as it may be, I am probably the first Detective in the USA to request an autopsy of a bird to solve a death case. That's a story to be told over a cold Guiness. :-)
