[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

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Hi All,

Howard, is this the type of thing you are talking about?  I heard something 
on History, Discovery, one of those channels. The show describe wide spread 
over population in German villages causing unemployment, poverty, and near 
famine. By various means, including lotteries, neuclear familys were 
selected to voluntarily emigrate to US. They were given some money, new 
clothes, etc. to make a new start. Think this was around 1850-1890. Their 
farms, belongings, anything they could not take with them were turned over 
to family left behind or the towns people. Seems I recall that something 
like 40% of the villages often left. I wonder if any one knows about this 
and when it happend.

Of my German lines, BARZ (BARTZ), and BECKER, they were in Poland when my 
Grt-grndfa was baptised. Now I wonder if this may be how they got there. 
Also have a conflict about the location of my original SELINGER or SELLINGER 
line. Supposedly they were from southern Germany. All my German ancestors 
emigrated and settled about 10 years apart, 1870 and 1880, in Joliet, Will 
Co. IL. They were part of the same Luthern Church.

A BARZ "cousin" is carrying on the sesarch, since he speaks some German. I 
am just trying to find leads for him. Where and how can these "lists" of 
emigrants to Poland be found ? Does anything similar to them exist for the 
ones who went to the US ?

Best Regards and thanks in advance,
Tricia M.

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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:01 PM
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:30:21 -0700
From: "Howard Krushel" <krushelh at telus.net>
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For those with relatives originating from the South-west region of Germany 
(settlers generally known as Schwaben who spoke a Schwaebisch dialect) are 
fortunate in that there was a substantial amount of good literature about 
this group. Just to mention a few authors, Max Miller, Otto Heike, Erich 
Weise, Werner Hacker, etc. All of these published extensive lists of 
settlers and usually, where they came and where they settled. Weise lists 
the S.W. German settlers who were recruited from 1799 to 1804 and moved to 
present day Poland, by an agent known as "von Nothardt". In his book, a 
Christian Schmalz, with a family of 5, is listed as coming from Wuerttemberg 
and settles in Springberg by Gross-Gollo, Amt
Klecko(Kreis Gnesen, south east of Wongrowitz).