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Sunday
8 October 2000
Yom Kippur (begins at sundown)
9 02 pm pdt [ detective ]
I spent a good part of yesterday evening trying to decipher the following:
The above locations are from the manifest of a ship which I believe brought a pair of my ancestors to this country in 1902. The fist word is clearly Hungary. The second word took me a long time. I decided it was some combination of the following:
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B Pi Pe |
erbac | k h |
Not being certain of the first letter made it difficult, since cities are listed alphabetically in most cases, but I finally discovered Pierbach, Austria. Now what I need to know is if records are available for research in Pierbach, Austria.
The third word looks like something along the lines of Gesonsin. Those last two letters are a real mystery, especially since the last one sits on the rule line. This is the last word I need to decipher.
The last entry says Oshkosh, Wisc., which was my ancestors' destination in the states. I love finding little pieces of the mystery...
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