[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migrations of people--Germans to Wohlynia

[gpvjem]

    In answer to your question why did your husband's Grandparents move to Volhynia from Pommern ........ a short answer and likely a correct one, would be that they moved there for economic reasons.  The possibility of owning property was the biggest attraction more than likely.
    Starting in the late 1800s, after disappointments and increasing harassment by the Russians such as difficulty in obtaining land titles, enforcement of Russian language education and compulsory military service, prompted many Volhynian Germans to leave for North and South America, even back to German areas.  Those that stayed in Volhynia eventually met untold hardship and disaster in the form of death and deportation beginning in 1915 during WW1.
    This is a very brief and general account that may be applicable to your husband's Grandparents.

John Marsch

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    John Marsh,
Would you be able to help us understand why my husbands maternal 
grandparents
moved from the area of Lubben Kreis Rummesburg in Pommern to Volhynia in
1871 and than left to come to US in 1888?
My mother-in-law was born in Volhynia and was only 6 years old when they 
emigrated and she only said they came to US because they would have been 
killed if they had stayed there in Volhynia
or Russia as she referred to the area?  I
don't know what profession her father was but they went directly to Berrien 
County MI
and became fruit farmers.
Any help?    Margaret