Dear Karen,
my name is Michael, I am 38 years old, and I am from Germany, living in an area called Palitinate,
directly in the small city of Landstuhl (next to Ramstein). Here is the biggest American Military Hospital,
the NATO Airport and the Kaiserslautern-Vogelweh, the biggest American Comunity outside the U.S.
I am already doing some genealogy for many years, and I also have listed a lot of American Sodtkes,
Sodkes, Sotkes and Sodtkas.
Mostly our family name is written like S-o-d-t-k-e and pronouced as "Zod-ka", and NOT "Soo-tt-kee",
as it probably is in America. Therefore some families in Canada spell their name as "Sodtka", which
looks strange but sounds more German (in English) than "Sodtke" which sounds mor Polish.
Our ancestrors originally came from West-Prussia, a part of the Kingdom of Prussia south of Gdanzk.
My grandfather was still born in Thorn (in German) nowadays Torun (in Polish) on the river Wisla.
The Sodke family lived there at least since 1664 when a Judith Sotke was born / baptized in Thorn.
Have a look on the West-East-Prussia List on "genealogy.net" (see below).
Looking forward to hearing from you very soon again.
Yours,
Michael Sodtke
Von-Richthofen-Str. 13
66849 Landstuhl
mobile phone +49 - 173 - 66 29 189
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