Hello everyone. Recently I have taken an interest in finding out where my family is from. I have come across my great great grandfather’s naturalization papers to the US from 1910. I am currently trying to find his birth town. On the document(will attach), it looks to me like it says “Sacksobin, Russia.” When I look this name up, I cannot find anything. Is there a different spelling for this name? Maybe it was spelled phonetically? Does this place still exist? Any help would be appreciated!

[https://imgur.com/a/Mu185m8](https://imgur.com/a/Mu185m8)

4 comments

  1. But you know that Poland is not Russia, right?

    For me it looks more like Saoksohin.

    Maybe you know where his children lived and look nearby ?

  2. Most likely the name is transliterated incorrectly. It may even be Sakhalin/Sachalin

  3. Sakschin ? Or Saczyn near Kalisz, it was in russian partition…

  4. I looked for “Jany” assuming that it’s the bigger place in the area (like a voivodeship) and found “Sokoły.” It’s about 15km away from the current Polish/Russian border (with Kaliningrad).

    [Here’s the link to Google map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/dZJcayZtihw8e7b16)

    In Russian, sometimes ‘o’ is read as ‘a’ ([(listen to the pronunciation of Sokoły here)](https://translate.google.com/?sl=pl&tl=ru&text=soko%C5%82y&op=translate). (Sokoły means falcons and the word in Russian is nearly the same, that’s why Google translation works in this case :))

    I could imagine how Sokoły gets spelled as Saokaohlin. Germany referred to it as Sokollen and renamed it in 1938 to something more German-sounding.

    In 1910, it was a small village of 45 people (according to German wikipedia). [(here’s the link)](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soko%C5%82y_(Go%C5%82dap))

    I don’t claim that that’s the place but maybe my comment helps you further. Good luck! 🙂

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