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Posts: Total: 12 / Live: 7 / Archived: 5 		From: Chicago,Illinois U.S.A.
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David   
28 Oct 2006
Genealogy / Josef Surowiec from Wojkon (can't find this town) and his ancestors [24]

thank you.
I am trying to find my grandfather on the Ellis Island web-site.I believe he came from Goworowo.I found a similar spelling for my last name,for a person who came from Wojkon.

I reasoned,if Wojkon was near Goworowo,it might be a relative...
I have spent years,and have yet to find him...very frustrating.I suspect a mispelling somewhere.
David   
31 Oct 2006
Genealogy / Josef Surowiec from Wojkon (can't find this town) and his ancestors [24]

My grandfather,Josef Surowiec,had a brother,Antoni.We know they exact day Antoni came to America.his age,and that he was married.I found,on the Ellis Island web-site,Antoni Sirowiecz.same age,married,and he came on the same day we know "my Antoni" came to America.So we are assuming that Antoni Sirowiecz is Antoni Surowiec.

So now,we are looking for Josef Surowiec,but trying different last-name-spellings.
We found one,and that Josef is from Wojkon.We know Antoni listed Goworowo as hometown.And we have other relatives in Goworowo.If Wojkon is far away,that would seem to dis-qualify Joesef as being the 'right one'.
David   
31 Oct 2006
Genealogy / Josef Surowiec from Wojkon (can't find this town) and his ancestors [24]

actually,you can read the actual mainfests.it's very cool.
we thought we had "found" Antoni Surowiec...it said he was going to New Jersey with his brother Walenty.So I went on whitePages.com,looked up Surowiecs in N.J.,and wrote a letter,asking if anyone had heard of a Antoni...

they wrote back,saying Antoni Surowiec was alive and well at a nursing home up in Pa.!
since my Antoni is buried here in Chicago,it wasn't him...
I dont know if the immigrants or the govt. clerks did the writeing,but I sure wish they had printed.I like the Josef from Wojkon,but cant read who he was meeting...so many clues just out'a reach.