KOSCIELNIAK / SOMMERFIELD aus Posen.

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Greetings from America:

I subscribe to the POSEN-D mailing list and noticed you have a similar surname to the one I am researching.

My grandfather was Joseph SOMMERFIELD who married Angeline KOSCIELNIAK. He was one of six children born to Walenty and Mary Jesikiewicz SOMMERFIELD. Various spellings include SOMERFIELD, SOMMERFELD, SUMERFIELD.

Walenty arrived in the US in 1895; Mary in 1898. I am trying to find out where Walenty was from. Walenty and Mary's first child was Stella. Her Social Security application stated she was born in Posen. Stella was born in 1893. Her brother Frank was born in 1895 in Poland.

The 1900 US census states they were from Poland Germany. What part of today's Poland would that mean ?

Any help you can give me regarding the SOMMERFELD family surname would be appreciated.

Carolyn Sommerfield BUSH
Mailto: wvaone(at)ameritech.net