[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ways to look for pre-Volhynia family origins

[Gary Warner]

Nancy,

Since we have the same records as the Odessa site for Volhynia on the free 
portion of the SGGEE site- http://www.sggee.org/Databases.html- (we also 
have advanced searching in the members area), I am curious what you find in 
the format of the Odessa site that is not the same or better on the SGGEE 
site.  We want to have the best data and format, so any suggestions would 
be appreciated.

Gary Warner
Gig Harbor, WA


At 08:50 PM 2/17/2005, Nancy Gertner wrote:
>Dan:
>
>Have you checked the transcribed church records at the "Odessa" website?
>
>http://www.odessa3.org/collections/stpete/volhynia/
>
>The high mortality rate can provide some clues to origin, as if you look 
>at the death records, there is frequently a place of birth listed.  Search 
>on your family names, or on the name of the village they lived in 
>Volhynia, and look at the places where other people were born.
>Because the people generally migrated in groups, your people probably came 
>from the same place as others in Volhynia.
>
>Many people in Zhitomir had origins in Posen Province.  I've seen the name 
>BUSS in the Lutheran records of Schokken (Skoki) Parish in Kreis 
>Wongrowitz.  I don't recall seeing Wildemann or Thiergarth.  Have you 
>searched for these names in the IGI at Familysearch.org?
>
>Both of these search methods have been successful for helping me determine 
>which LDS films to find records of my ancestral family in.
>
>Nancy
>
>On Feb 17, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Dan wrote:
>
>>Looks like I've stumbled upon a great web site. I hope someone will be 
>>able to
>>help me get past a roadblock. I have good information on my father's 
>>ancestry,
>>Emil BUSS, but I can't get past my grandparents on my mother's side.
>>Emil and Albertine
>>were of the Evangelical Lutheran faith.
>>Daniel Buss
>
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