Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0015152, Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:45:43 -0400

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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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