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BIRTHDAY: Where's Botkin? Answer #1: Ellis Island
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http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ (before 1924; 25 million records)
A search of Ellis Island records immigration database shows:
- 495 male Krugs, among them four Adams!
- 284 male Humberts [last name], among them a Hubert Humbert
- 166 male Rexes and 10 male Albinuses, including a Hermann Albinus (?)
- 98 male and 36 female Veens, but no Van or Ada
- 63 male Kretschmars, including one Bruno Kretschmar!
- 20 male Pilgrams
- 18 male Graduses (!!!)
- 8 male Botkins and 7 male Bodkins - but no Kinbotes !
- one Lujin
- one Pnin
- one Ada Bodkin (??)
ALSO
on four occassions from 1905 to 1910, Ellis Island records show VN's diplomat uncle Constantin Nabokoff entering USA (first time in 1905 as a secretary to Witte for signing Portsmouth Treaty in NH -- see Speak, Memory episode about mural in the American museum of Natural History, NY)
Victor Fet
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A search of Ellis Island records immigration database shows:
- 495 male Krugs, among them four Adams!
- 284 male Humberts [last name], among them a Hubert Humbert
- 166 male Rexes and 10 male Albinuses, including a Hermann Albinus (?)
- 98 male and 36 female Veens, but no Van or Ada
- 63 male Kretschmars, including one Bruno Kretschmar!
- 20 male Pilgrams
- 18 male Graduses (!!!)
- 8 male Botkins and 7 male Bodkins - but no Kinbotes !
- one Lujin
- one Pnin
- one Ada Bodkin (??)
ALSO
on four occassions from 1905 to 1910, Ellis Island records show VN's diplomat uncle Constantin Nabokoff entering USA (first time in 1905 as a secretary to Witte for signing Portsmouth Treaty in NH -- see Speak, Memory episode about mural in the American museum of Natural History, NY)
Victor Fet
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm