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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:45:34 EDT

I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION OR HOW, OR WHERE TO LOOK, FOR INFORMATION ON MY
GRANDFATHER, FREDERICK WILLIAM HARTKOPF, WHO WAS BORN 6 APRIL 1876 IN
BERGEDORF, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, GERMANY. HE WAS INTERESTED IN THE COLONIES AND WENT
TO BERLIN, WHERE HE WAS SCHOOLED IN AGRICULTURE TO BECOME A GARDNER AS HIS
TRADE. HE HAD WANTED TO GO TO GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA, BUT INSTEAD WAS SEND TO
GERMAN PAPUA, HE BECAME DISGRUNTLED WITH HIS STAY THERE AND TOOK THE SHIP
SONOMA FROM AUSTRALIA AND PICKED HIM UP AT PAGO PAGO THEN ON TO SAN FRANCISCO,
HE IS ON THE SHIP MANISFEST FOR THAT JOURNEY. HE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO IN
1904. I HAVE TRACED HIS LIFE AFTER HE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO. HE WAS
THE SON OF FREDERICK HEINRICK HARTKOPF AND JOHANNA WIHE, BOTH OF BERGEDORF,
SCHLESIG-HOLSTEIN GERMANY. IS THERE AWAY TO FIND DEATH INFORMATION ON HIS
FATHER AND MOTHER. IT IS BELIEVED HIS FATHER DIED IN 1922, IN BERGEDORF, AND HIS
MOTHER DIED IN 1926 IN BERGEDORF. FRED WILLIAM HARTKOPF, MY GRANDFATHER HAD
TWO SIBLINGS, ELLA HARTKOPF, WHO MARRIED A ? HAACK AND DIED IN 1917 IN
BERGEDORF. HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, HERBERT HARTKOPF WHO WAS BORN IN 1899 . HE
WAS ALIVE IN 1967, WHEN I FOUND HIM LISTED IN THE HAMBURG, GERMANY TELEPHONE
BOOK AND UPON SENDING HIM A LETTER, I WAS JUST A BOY THEN, HE SURPRISED ME AND
ANSWERED WITH A HISTORY OF HIS FAMILY. I WROTE HIM, BUT DID NOT RECEIVE AN
ANSWER. ? WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I DO NOW?

FRED HARTKOPF

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