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From: "Jon Walgren" <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Kopke or Koepke
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:57:46 -0500


Have you tried the "Germans to America" volume of books?
I have read that these books are sometimes bad about listing persons who
died at sea, but it is worth looking. They are indexed by passenger name
and arranged by year, so if they are in there, you should be able to find
them.

Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mabel Pitman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 7:06 AM
Subject: [POSEN] Kopke or Koepke


> > My great great grandparents came from Prussia, Johann Carl Friedrich
> >KOPKE or Koepke birth 1826 in Hetzdorff, Prussia and his wife Wilhelmine
> >Damerow birth 1826, Prussia
> >
> >Their children... August Ernst Friedrich Koepke birth March 16, 1850,
> >Arendsee, Prussia
> > Wilhelmine Friedrike Caroline Koepke birth 1852
> >
> >Emigrated from Hamburg, Germany in 1854.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me the boat they came over on, it is not known if they
were
> >to arrive in USA or Canada
> >
> >Johann & Wilhelmine KOPKE or Koepke died aboardship, and buried at sea.
> >
> >Anything could help...
> >
> >Thank you... Mabel (Koepke) Pitman...
> >
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