Hi Folks!
Would someone, please, help me with my search for the emigration date and birthplace of my great uncle, Samuel Knuutila. Samuel might have been born on the Finland/Russian border, sometime in 1859.
Samuel, his wife, Susan Lahti, b abt 1864, and their son, Edvard, born in Finland, abt 1890, emigrated from Finland/Sweden to America, about 1893.
I found the family listed under the surname, Kobi,in the 1910 federal census. They were living in Montreal, Montreal Twp. Wi. However, I was told by Samuel's granddaughter, that after their arrival in America, Samuel and his family first made their home in Gogebic, MI.
Finally, after Samuel was naturalized in Gogebic, MI, he changed his surname from Knuutila to Gogi/Kobi.
Thanks!
Ron