[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help with Lutheran Parish Register, please

[Jerry Frank]

The St. Pete records are copies of local church records that were sent to 
the Bishop's office in St. Petersburg.  In some areas and time frames, the 
pastor copied detailed marriage records for submission.  Those details 
usually include the names of parents, place of birth, etc.  Unfortunately, 
in Volhynia, except for the early 1830s and 40s records, the marriage 
records were abbreviated.

So the Hauptregister numbers you see are references to the original local 
parish records.

To date, original Zhitomir records c.1872 have not been found.  However, 
the Rozyszcse parish records are held in the Warsaw Archives.  You can 
write to them to get the detailed information which may be very helpful in 
your research.   There will however be a cost involved.  Note that the 
original parish records for Rozyszcse for 1862-1870 have been microfilmed 
by the LDS and they may be of help to you if perhaps you can find the 
marriage records there for siblings of these people.  The film numbers can 
be found on the SGGEE website.




At 12:19 PM 19/01/2003 -0700, bwoodman wrote:

> From the entries:
>
>Hinweisung auf das Hauptregister No. 138  - Martin Boettcher and Julianne
>Schmidt  married 2 Nov 1872 Zhitomir
>Hinweisung auf das Hauptregister No. 110 - Andreas Christian Sonntag and
>Katharina Schmidt married 28 Jul 1874 Rozyszcse
>Hinweisung auf das Hauptregister No. 150 - Friedrich Sonntag and Emilie Huhnke
>married 19 Sep 1878 Roshischtsche
>
>Does anyone know anything about this other register, and how to access it?
>Until I read from you,
>Brenda

Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca