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: http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/utgoff.htm; http://www.gosarhiv.sevastopol.iuf.net/show/pilots/u.shtml), who was amongst those who financed Igor Sikorsky’s first American aircraft (see: 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: http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/rachman/pc3.html) J

 

Grigori Utgof

 

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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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