Where is Sobalenky ?

B. St

This Jewish immigrant ad his family were all born Sobalenky. I understand that, before coming to the USA, his last place of residence was in Libau (German name) in Latvia.

Thank you in advance for your help

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Ellie Vance

Hi!

I took a look at some other documents regarding your ancestor Frank Cooper and found some additional clues about the place!

Do you have access to Ancestry? If not, I'll attach the images associated with these links for you.

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61201/images/007794976_00307?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=71c2f75160076a4667d7dfc4c692c153&usePUB=true&_phsrc=POp813&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.46167335.1631399368.1639498992-908159187.1593441350&pId=193097

^ This is Frank's petition for citizenship. On the page, it says he immigrated under the name Froym Krupnik in January 1914 on the vessel "Russia."

Using that information I located his passenger list which can be found here:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYT715_2252-0252?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=fc45a5e2627a48b9f59b35e56fec8fbb&usePUB=true&_phsrc=POp817&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.213995799.1631399368.1639498992-908159187.1593441350&pId=4013121717

On the passenger list, he's traveling with a Mirlja Krupnik (likely his mother). On that document, under the column of the relative left behind in the old country, there is a Leib Krupnik (husband of Mirlja) who is from Sobolenky, and then the Podolia gubernia is listed. A gubernia is kind of like a state which helps us narrow down all of Russia to just a small portion of the Russian empire. If you go to the next page, in the last column, it lists the birth place of both Mirlja and Frank.

It looks to be Tulzin, which is likely modern day Tulchin, Ukraine. As you can see from the linked Jewish Gen page below, this location was in the Podalia gubernia, and the Polish and other alternate spellings phonetically match "Tulzin." A nearby town is "Sobolevka" which I think could be a pretty promising candidate for "Sobalenky." It's the only town in Podolia gubernia (that I could see at least) that is close to "Sobalenky." H

https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1056838

https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1054495

Hope this helps!

B. St

Hi Ellie,

thank you so much for your help. I will check out your information. This is the family I am researching. In the US they have changed their name to Cooper.

Sorry for replying so late. Familysearch does not forward any mail to may mail address anymore so I only found your message today.

Happy Holidays

Barbara

Ellie Vance

Barbara,

You are very welcome! Happy Holidays to you too!