[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Searching for Bettich, Bettig, Wacker, Schubert, Lask near Lodz and Lubomirka, Solomka and Berestowice near Kostopol

[Jerry Frank]

One branch of the Bettig family from Solomka migrated to the United States.  They are involved in Baptist Church missions in Ukraine.  Apparently an ancestor married a Ukrainian and they still have relatives who live in Solomka.  They were part of the Volhynian German community that settled in the Benton Harbor district of Michigan.  See:

http://markuswolf.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

http://kosachukfamily.blogspot.com/2007/09/markus-wolf.html

http://www.churchgrowers.com/cisportal/AboutUs/VolunteerStaff/tabid/70/Default.aspx

I do not have a direct email address for this family but you can probably arrange contact with them through their church at http://www.napierchurch.org/ 

My maternal Hemminger family also lived at Solomka.  I too have searched for old pictures of the region but have not found any.

Our databases shows a Valentin Bettich, son of Johann Bettich and Rosina Diehle.  The information comes from Trinity Lutheran Parish in Lodz.  Johann died at Lutka (now a suburb of Lodz) 21 May 1847 so Valentin would be born before then.  Other siblings of Valentin include Maria, Josef, Johann, Julius and Ida.  There is no other information about the family but researching the microfilms of this parish available through the LDS might get you further results.


Jerry Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: Marina und Henning Bettich <henning.bettich at osnanet.de>
Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010 1:23 am
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Searching for Bettich, Bettig, Wacker,	Schubert, Lask near Lodz and Lubomirka,	Solomka and Berestowice near Kostopol
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm searching for the names Bettich, cause my great-great-
> grandfather was
> Valentin Bettich and he was born in Solomka, he married 
> Christine Wacker and
> died in Solomka. Valentzins father was also named Valentin and 
> he married
> Therese Schubert, my grandfather told me that they went from 
> germany to
> Volhynia over Lask near Lodz in Poland.
> 
>  
> 
> Valentins children also was named Bettich but some of the had 
> the name
> Bettig cause they couldn't write and read and so the volhynian 
> church wrote
> the names like they sound.
> 
> So my grandfather is Heinrich Bettich and my grandmother is 
> Elfriede Bettig
> .
> 
>  
> 
> It would be great to hear something about it. And I hope I could 
> close the
> great hole in the family tree before Valentin Bettich. Cause we 
> didn't know
> really where to search for Valentin, was Lask near Lodz really 
> the right
> town they went through and live some years, where from germany 
> they came
> nobody of our family really knows, my grandfather says that his 
> grandparentsspeak swabian dialect if the kids shouldn' know what 
> they speak.. Maybe the
> come from Swabia.
> 
>  
> 
> It would be great if there exist some old photos from the region from
> Solomka, Lubomirka, Berestowice and Kostopol, so I can imagine 
> how they
> lived.
> 
>  
> 
> I would be happy about every little peace you know.
> 
>  
> 
> Henning Bettich
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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