[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia]

[Richard Benert]

Greg,

If you can get hold of a copy of Adam Giesinger's, "From Catherine to
Krushchev", there is a map in p. 130 that gives a pretty good indication of
where Volhynia was.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: greg swanson <gps444 at yahoo.com>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Date: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:16 AM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia]


>Dear fellow East European German Desendents-
>
>  I've been on the list for a while and have been
>waiting not wanting to ask too many newby stupid
>questions. Well, the time has come.
>
>1) Wat area exactly does Volhynia cover. After reading
>all the web pages, etc, I still can't figure it out.
>Looks like it's Russia or at least the area East of
>Congress Poland.
>
>2) Could someone recommend a good book on the German
>settlement of Poland? My family tradition is that our
>family (at least some) left Germany around 1800 to
>avoid being conscripted into Napolean's army.
>
>3) I went to the genealogy library. What few records I
>could find were in Polish. It appears therefore that
>the parish records were actually civil records.
>Otherwise I would have expected the German chuches to
>do their records in their native language.
>
>4) People and places which I am searching:
>
>   Tepper(Teper,Tepfer)in Feliksow, Turek, Pudlow
>   Kujat  in Dombrofka, Turek, Josefow
>   Kryger (Kruger) in ?
>   Czernig (Sharnik) in ?, Turek
>   Hering      in ?
>   Radtke
>   Schaedler (Schadler)
>   Hass   in Kowalwewko
>   Wendt in ?
>
>Thanks for your indulgence.
>
>Greg Swanson
>
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