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Hi all! I'm new to the forum, so hopefully I'm posting this thread in the right place.
I'm trying to figure out where my great great grandmother, Tekla "Tessie" Hudobenko (maiden name Slaboda/Sloboda) was born. There are a few similarly spelled names listed as her birthplace on different documents:
1. Her Petition for Naturalization lists Lemisehiha, Russia as place of birth.
2. Her Declaration of Intention lists Lemisehiha, Russia as place of birth and Lemischika, Russia as last foreign residence.
3. Her Obituary lists Semischika, Russia as place of birth.
Lemisehiha, Russia turns up 0 results on Google. Lemischika, Russia gets corrected to "Lemischka," which appears to be the name of a Russian stem cell researcher. Semischika, Russia gets corrected to Semyachik, Russia, which is a volcano located in eastern Russia. This seems unlikely to be the correct location. Once I tell Google to search only for Semischika, Russia, there are only a handful of results that show up, 2 of which are her obituary, and the rest appear to be spam.
I looked through Wikipedia's list of cities and towns in Russia and their list of renamed cities and towns in Russia, but wasn't able to find cities on either list with similarly spelled names.
Does anyone know of a Russian city (or perhaps something smaller like a village) that could be a match? Or perhaps other places I could search? I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to this whole geneaology thing. (:
I'm trying to figure out where my great great grandmother, Tekla "Tessie" Hudobenko (maiden name Slaboda/Sloboda) was born. There are a few similarly spelled names listed as her birthplace on different documents:
1. Her Petition for Naturalization lists Lemisehiha, Russia as place of birth.
2. Her Declaration of Intention lists Lemisehiha, Russia as place of birth and Lemischika, Russia as last foreign residence.
3. Her Obituary lists Semischika, Russia as place of birth.
Lemisehiha, Russia turns up 0 results on Google. Lemischika, Russia gets corrected to "Lemischka," which appears to be the name of a Russian stem cell researcher. Semischika, Russia gets corrected to Semyachik, Russia, which is a volcano located in eastern Russia. This seems unlikely to be the correct location. Once I tell Google to search only for Semischika, Russia, there are only a handful of results that show up, 2 of which are her obituary, and the rest appear to be spam.
I looked through Wikipedia's list of cities and towns in Russia and their list of renamed cities and towns in Russia, but wasn't able to find cities on either list with similarly spelled names.
Does anyone know of a Russian city (or perhaps something smaller like a village) that could be a match? Or perhaps other places I could search? I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to this whole geneaology thing. (:
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