The documents behind the history
174 scanned documents: church books, household registers, estate revisions, refugee papers and American records.
Start with the records that matter most
Each of these has an explanation of what it says and what it supports.
- Elmar Oswald Leoke’s Windsheim registration card
- The back of the Leoke family’s Windsheim card
- Pilvi Laine Leoke’s Windsheim registration card
- Virve Leoke’s death certificate
- Pan Am passenger manifest, Frankfurt to New York, 30 November 1947
- US emigration list naming Elmar Oswald and Hilda Leoke
- Manifest of the General W. M. Black, New York, 30 October 1948
- Elmar Koik’s arrival card, New Orleans, 1949
- Elmar Heinrich Koik’s birth and baptism entry, Karksi, 1925
- Karksi household register, page 524
- Viljandi household book: the Meomüttel family
- Hans Leoke’s baptism, Viljandi, 1853
- Elmar Koik’s DP registration record, 1948
- Elmar Koik’s 1946 questionnaire
- Mörlbach list of foreigners who died
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Leoke family · Arolsen: Elmar Oswald, Hilda, Pilvi
From the Arolsen Archives (the former International Tracing Service): registration cards, lists of foreigners, death certificates and refugee and emigration files.
Leoke family · Arolsen: Virve Leoke (died 1945)
From the Arolsen Archives (the former International Tracing Service): registration cards, lists of foreigners, death certificates and refugee and emigration files.
Leoke family · Exile register cards (ERA.4942.4)
Card index of people who left Estonia, National Archives of Estonia (ERA.4942.4).
Leoke family · Church records: Viljandi
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Leoke family · Graves and places
Grave records and photographs.
Leoke family · Other Leokes (not direct line) · Hugo Leoke
Records of Leokes whose connection to the family is not proven.
Leoke family · Other Leokes (not direct line) · Linda Leoke (nee Vissak)
Records of Leokes whose connection to the family is not proven.
Leoke family · Other Leokes (not direct line) · Tartu and Torma church records
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Leoke family · Revision lists: Alt-Woidoma
Soul revisions of the Alt-Woidoma (Vana-Võidu) estate: periodic censuses of the peasant population.
Leoke family · Other Leokes (not direct line) · Tallinn church records
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Arolsen: Elmar Koik
From the Arolsen Archives (the former International Tracing Service): registration cards, lists of foreigners, death certificates and refugee and emigration files.
Koik family · Church records: Halliste
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Helme
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Karksi
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Paistu
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Saarde
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Tarvastu
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Church records: Viljandi (not our line)
Church books and household registers of the Lutheran congregations, National Archives of Estonia, read in its Saaga viewer.
Koik family · Graves
Grave records and photographs.
Koik family · Exile register card (ERA.4942.4)
Card index of people who left Estonia, National Archives of Estonia (ERA.4942.4).
Koik family · Military: Juhan Koik
Juhan Koik’s military papers, National Archives of Estonia, ERA.680.3.9.
US records and ships
American passenger manifests, arrival cards, declarations of intention and newspapers.
![Emigration list pp181-182: Elmer Oswald and Hilda Leoke, sponsor Peter Leoke; penciled "[number withheld] Chicago 7-1-55" between lines 378 and 379](../media/rec/f/US09.jpg)
