[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans in Poland, Russia

[Perry1121 at aol.com]

Hi Dolly,
 
I'm one of the SGGEE members who has been researching the German "clans"  and 
villages around Lublin and Chelm. More and more members find they have roots  
there because even those families who settled in Volhynia often stayed in the 
 Lublin area long enough to birth a few children before moving on across the 
Bug  River. Others remained until 1940 when forced by the Nazi government to 
be  resettled elsewhere in Poland. Although the LDS archivists scanned church  
records of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lublin and other  
churches in the area in 2004, these records are not yet available through  them. 
There is a poor quality Cyrillic microfilm of parish birth records  from 1871-May 
1873 available; yet even this film reveals about 800 births  per year among 
colonists and settlers in the area. Some of  the information from this parish 
book has been extracted and is on the  SGGEE website; you can find the parents' 
names and the names of the  infants. There is a Hauf family, but there is no 
way of knowing if they are  connected to your Hauffs. I am still working at 
deciphering the names of the  villages, so that will be added to the website 
when I'm finished.
 
However, I would suggest that some members of the Hauff or Friedrich  
families might have remained in the Lublin area until 1940. If so, you can find  them 
in the EWZ films. Those of us on Team Lublin have found an incredible gold  
mine of extended family information in these films, and the documents are 
typed!  You can find general information about EWZ films on the SGGEE website. I 
have  been keeping a record of villages on the films I've ordered and viewed. 
You will  find your "clan" village of Binof/Bieniew (same village, also Bienow) 
on LDS  film #1796779. Other villages besides Bienow on this film include 
Adolfin,  Annopol, Czulczyce, Henrysin, Ignatow, Jankowice, Janow, Jozefin, 
Julianow,  Krobonosz, Nowosiolki, Olenowka, Plawanice, Rudka, Rudno, Rudolfin, 
Rybie,  Stanislawow, Stefanow, Syczow, and Teresin. Some of these villages may also 
 appear on other EWZ films. The villages are not in alphabetical order and  
residents are not necessarily all together in the same section. You have to  
search the entire film. I don't have this film at my local Family History Center 
 any more or I would have looked at it today for the Hauff family.
 
You may contact me if you have any other questions. 
 
Regards,
Sigrid Pohl Perry
(Pohl, Hapke, Domres, Kuehn, Mantei, Scheffler, Wolski, Buettner, Gatzke et  
al)