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Title: Cant read birth location
Post by: Sally Brealey on Sunday 27 January 19 20:14 GMT (UK)
Hi

I am trying to find the birth location for John Jacobs, it is the top line on the attachment and we know it was in Russia Poland. None of the other census has the location past Poland.

Thank you for your help
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: medpat on Sunday 27 January 19 20:21 GMT (UK)
Looks like Hosokoff to me
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Viktoria on Sunday 27 January 19 20:34 GMT (UK)
I agree,Hosokoff.
Unless the first letter is a W,and nor an ornate H.But it is not like the W for
Whitechapel,
Viktoria.
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Girl Guide on Sunday 27 January 19 20:47 GMT (UK)
What census year does this come from Sally?  I'm thinking the first letter looks more like a K.

Can you give us the census reference please?  If we can see the whole page we may be able to see if there are any other letters that look the same.
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Viktoria on Sunday 27 January 19 21:24 GMT (UK)
K does seem more likely.
Viktoria.
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: sugarbakers on Sunday 27 January 19 21:28 GMT (UK)
I think K also, but whichever it is it doesn't want to be found on a map search.

The JewishGen Gazetteer might help you ... you can search variants of the name in individual countries or wider areas, eg: Eastern Europe, and it will suggest possibilities.
https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 27 January 19 22:26 GMT (UK)
Possible?

Kożuchów

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%BCuch%C3%B3w

Gadget
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Girl Guide on Sunday 27 January 19 22:35 GMT (UK)
Well if enumerators wrote down what they heard.............then Kożuchów could well have sounded like kosokoff.
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 27 January 19 22:44 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Girl Guide on Sunday 27 January 19 22:35 GMT (UK)
Well if enumerators wrote down what they heard.............then Kożuchów could well have sounded like kosokoff.

That's why I suggested it  ;D
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: arthurk on Monday 28 January 19 11:25 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Gadget on Sunday 27 January 19 22:26 GMT (UK)
Possible?

Kożuchów

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%BCuch%C3%B3w

Gadget

That's a good find, except the census says Russian Poland. If it's correct, I think that would be the eastern part of modern Poland, whereas Kożuchów is well to the west in the part that was administered by Prussia/Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Partition
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Gadget on Monday 28 January 19 11:32 GMT (UK)
I had a look on the western part of Russia, just in case,  but couldn't find anything like it. The only other that looked vaguely like it was in Siberia  ;D

I then noted that they seem unsure on the entry, with Poland and Germany mentioned.  I still think that this is the most likely, unless there are changes (as  with St Petersburg) in the names of the smaller locations after the fall of Communism in the USSR.
Gadget


Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: sugarbakers on Monday 28 January 19 11:48 GMT (UK)
Kozakov, Belarus  ?

[JewishGen]
Title: Re: Cant read birth location
Post by: Gadget on Monday 28 January 19 13:00 GMT (UK)
Quote from: sugarbakers on Monday 28 January 19 11:48 GMT (UK)
Kozakov, Belarus  ?

[JewishGen]

Looks a strong possible  :)