[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Baptist records

[Miles Ertman]

The following website gives archive holdings of Baptist records for some
areas of Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and former German lands.
http://www.arminweist.de/20000bqa.htm
Go to the bottom of the page and click on the map for the area of interest.

If you have ancestors who were German Baptists in N. America, and if they
were members of one of the North American Baptist Conference Churches, then
there is a possibility that their obituary may have been published in "Der
Sendbote", a publication put out by the Conference.  There is an archive in
Sioux Falls, SD which has all of the issues of Der Sendbote.  Their address
and the name of the archivist who will search for obituaries is:

Berneice Westerman, Associate Archivist

North American Baptist Heritage Commission

1525 South Grange Ave.

Sioux Falls, SD  57105

        NABArchives at nabs.edu

The cost for a successful search (including a photocopy of the obituary) is
15 USD.  If you go there and do your own search, then it is free.  I have
only found a couple of obituaries that were published in Der Sendbote (not
all obituaries were published) but the ones that exist contained a wealth of
information including place of birth.


   Miles Ertman