[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] dialects

[Carolyn Schott]

What are the family names that you're looking for in Bessarabia?  Are you
aware of this site: http://www.odessa3.org/collections.html

If you do a "Full Text Search" of the names you're looking for, that might
help point out which Bessarabian village they came from.  Also - if you can
find the Bessarabian church records for your families (by doing the search,
you'll get FHL microfilm reference numbers) you can often find village of
origin in the death record of the immigrant to Bessarabia.  Of course, if
they came via Poland, a lot of times the village won't be mentioned and
you'll have further digging to do.

But if they came direct from Germany, often the village is mentioned in the
death record.

Carolyn Schott Consulting
cgschott at earthlink.net
206-362-0181



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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:59:18 -0700
From: Verna Hutchinson <verna2k5 at shaw.ca>
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] dialects
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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Hello List:

 

I've been fortunate  through the kindness of genealogists,in 
Europe & Canada to further my ancestry 

back another 4 generations. I started out with only  paternal 
Grandparents arriving in Canada 1907 from Lutzk Volhynia

My maternal Grandparents arrived here in 1913 from Bessarabia.

I am now trying to find out where the ancestors immigrated 
from,before arriving in Volhynia & Bessarabia .

The Bessarabian Grandparents spoke either low German. or Swabish.

The Volhynian Grandparents spoke a German closer to what the 
minister spoke,which I thought to be high German

 

Would knowing the right dialect help in finding the area that 
the families originated from?

 Thank you  Verna