I had something similar happen regarding my father’s immigration. The family members wrote ”Servio,” which I couldn’t find. The late,  very knowledgeable Phyllis Kramer told me that immigrants sometimes wrote the name of the inn where they had stayed the night before. I later learned it apparently was another stop on their route to America.

Happy hunting,

Molly Arost Staub

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