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He wrote Polish on his passport, but "family legend" has it that some of our Polish ancestors were actually Russians and it was some big secret. He used Kossa on some documents but Kossow on others and his children used Kosse. His immigration documents list his profession as Mechanical Engineer, so ...

All of his children's baptism records seem to mention Vilna or Vilenski too... I wonder if there's another Sts Peter and Paul Church in the Vilnius guberniya. Oddly I can't find his wife Anela's baptism records in the Riga church archives either. http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/ccollet3/Hel...

All of his immigration records say Vilna except for his death certificate. His death certificate says he was born in "Kelich, Poland"

I'm looking through them now. His immigration documents give 24 sept 1869 as his birth date but that would only make him 27 at the time of his marriage, not 29. I'll go through the whole range of possible years.

Interesting, thank you. All of his children's baptism records have Alexander's name as "Kosse vel Kosow" or "Kosse vel Kossow" too. On the boat from Hamburg to America he was "Alexander Kossow" but on his immigration papers he signed his name "Alexander Kossa". Is Ferdinant a Polish surname? I read ...

Thank you! No, I don't understand what vel means.

Please translation this act: Year of act: 1897 Locality: Riga Name (of child/husband/deceased): Alexander Surname (of child/husband/deceased): Kosse Kosow Link to the fotos: http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/ccollet3/f6313b3a-9f47-4f84-9283-5eb0392e2885_zpspokhlly1.jpg Hello, Can somebody he...