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5 сентября 2005 23:43 LOOKING FOR OUR ANCESTORS IN ROSTOV RUSSIA -LEESKOFF I'M DOING FAMILY RESEARCH ON OUR FAMILY AND I WOULD NEED TO HAVE THIS SENT TO ME IN ENGLISH SO I CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND. I'M LOOKING FOR ANCESTORS THAT LIVED IN ROSTOV RUSSIA ON THE BLACK SEA IS WHERE THEY WERE LIVING AT THE TIME. THE FAMILIES LAST NAME WAS LEESKOFF NOT SURE IF THAT SPELLING IS CORRECT, BUT THE SOUNDEX ON THE LAST NAME IS CORRECT. THERE WAS A MIKEL LEO LEESKOFF (SPELLING MAY BE OFF, BUT SOUNDS LIKE MICHAEL OR MIKHAIL, LEESKOFF MAY BE SPELLED DIFFERENTLY TOO). HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN, ONE OF THE CHILDRENS NAME WAS LEO MIKEL LEESKOFF. LEO WAS BORN AUGUST 20, 1897. MIKEL LEO LEESKOFF, HIS FATHER WAS A LEESKOFF TOO, DON'T KNOW HIS FIRST NAME, BUT HE WAS KNOWN TO WRITE BOOKS IN RUSSIA. MIKEL LEO LEESKOFF'S SON, LEO, HAD GONE TO CANADA THEN TO THE UNITED STATES IN WASHINGTON STATE BETWEEN 1913 TO 1915. LEO WAS IN THE U.S. CALVERY 1ST WORLD WAR STATIONED IN THE COUNTRY OF FRANCE. LEO HAD CHANGED HIS NAME WHEN HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS CHANGED TO LEO MICKEL LEE. HE SHORTENED HIS LAST NAME OF LEESKOFF TO LEE. APPARENTLY LEO FLED RUSSIA DURING THE BOLSVIC REVALOUTION IF THIS HELPS ANY. WE HAVE FAMILY PICTURES OF LEO'S MOTHER, GRANDMA, A NIECE NAME ANNA. MOST OF THE PICTURES DO NOT HAVE THEIR NAMES ON THEM, SO WERE NOT SURE WHAT THEIR NAMES ARE. WE DO KNOW THAT LEO'S FATHER, MICKEL LEO LEESKOFF HE WAS A GERNERAL IN THE CZAR ARMY. PLEASE IF THERE ARE ANY COUSINS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, ANYBODY WHO MAY KNOW THESE PEOPLE, PLEASE EMAIL ME. IF YOU HAVE ANY ADVISE ON HOW I COULD FIND OUT ABOUT RESEARCHING THIS FAMILY LINE IN RUSSIA, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, CINDY MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS: CINDYNORD@SBCGLOBAL.NET |