[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lowicz Poland history question

[Nelson Itterman]

Did the Potato Famine affect other parts of the world?
Nelson

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Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lowicz Poland history question

> Does anyone have any information on a Russian military detachment and
> military hospital that may have been stationed in Lowicz Poland in the
> mid 1800s?

Jerry wrote an excellent answer.

> I have noticed a large number ... among death records in 1846-7.

An other cause about large number in the death records in this time can be
the potato with influences to Russian-Poland too ...

English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Potato_Famine

German:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Hungersnot_in_Irland

gerhard

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