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What a great database!
Incidentally, I ended up finding 18 Fets and 6 Utgoffs, including Viktor
Viktorovich Utgoff (neither related to the Uthofs or the Utgofs), a Russian
aviation pioneer (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/utgoff.htm"http://www.firstworldwar.com/bi
o/utgoff.htm; HYPERLINK
"http://www.gosarhiv.sevastopol.iuf.net/show/pilots/u.shtml"http://www.gosar
hiv.sevastopol.iuf.net/show/pilots/u.shtml), who was amongst those who
financed Igor Sikorsky’s first American aircraft (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/index.html"http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/
index.html).
(I wonder was Igor Sikorsky related to VN’s sister, Elena Sikorsky?)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was also a shareholder of Sikorsky Aero Engineering
Corporation, is mentioned for the first time under the year of 1909 (arrived
on November 2, 1909 on board of “Kronprinzessin Cecilie”). Sad the record
does not include a reference to a silent keyboard he took on his first
transatlantic trip (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html"http://www.c
lassical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html) :-)
Grigori Utgof
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Where's Botkin? Answer #1: Ellis Island
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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Incidentally, I ended up finding 18 Fets and 6 Utgoffs, including Viktor
Viktorovich Utgoff (neither related to the Uthofs or the Utgofs), a Russian
aviation pioneer (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/utgoff.htm"http://www.firstworldwar.com/bi
o/utgoff.htm; HYPERLINK
"http://www.gosarhiv.sevastopol.iuf.net/show/pilots/u.shtml"http://www.gosar
hiv.sevastopol.iuf.net/show/pilots/u.shtml), who was amongst those who
financed Igor Sikorsky’s first American aircraft (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/index.html"http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/
index.html).
(I wonder was Igor Sikorsky related to VN’s sister, Elena Sikorsky?)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was also a shareholder of Sikorsky Aero Engineering
Corporation, is mentioned for the first time under the year of 1909 (arrived
on November 2, 1909 on board of “Kronprinzessin Cecilie”). Sad the record
does not include a reference to a silent keyboard he took on his first
transatlantic trip (see: HYPERLINK
"http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html"http://www.c
lassical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html) :-)
Grigori Utgof
-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf
Of NABOKV-L
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:46 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Where's Botkin? Answer #1: Ellis Island
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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