[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Using 'Kartei Quassowski'

[Jan Peters]

Once you find your name what can you do with it?  Are
there documents available?

--- Paul Rakow <rakow at ifh.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Otto <otto at schienke.com> wrote:
> 
> > Comment has been offered on the following resource
> named "Die Kartei
> > Quassowski".
> > If I wanted to extract information on, for
> example, my surname "Schienke",(
> > I'll check the variations of the spelling of it)
> from the database,
> > could you describe a step by step (a, b, c, d, and
> so on) walk-through of the
> > procedure?    It is difficult to make sense of it
> as is.
> > It would be helpful to me.
> > It appears to be a useful resource.
> > 
> 
>    Dear Otto, 
> 
>         OK, I'll try to write down instructions
> (though it's a few years
>  since I've looked anyone up in the books). 
> 
>         There are two sorts of Schienkes (as far as
> the Kartei Quassowski
>  is concerned), those who are in the right place,
> and those who aren't. 
> 
>        To find the Schienkes who are filed under
> Schienke, just go to
>  the S volume, and look up Schienke in the normal
> alphabetical order. 
>  (There are a lot of S surnames, so it's possible
> that there are 2 or 3
>  S volumes, in which case you look for the one with
> Sch names). That
>  part is just like using an encyclopedia. 
> 
>        The other step is to look for Schienkes filed
> in other places. 
>  If, for example, Ottilie Schienke married Adelbert
> Aardvark, that
>  might be filed under A for Aardvark, instead of S
> for Schienke. To find
>  those misplaced people, you use some index volumes,
> which give you 
>  cross-references to all the people who are filed
> under someone else's 
>  name.  
>        
>       That's not too complicated, and it may have
> become slightly easier, 
>  because I think the web index
>  <http://www.kartei-quassowski.de.vu/>  
>  finds the page numbers for both groups (those filed
> under their own name,
>  and those filed under someone else's name) in one
> search. 
> 
>          Hope this makes sense, 
> 
>              Paul Rakow
>              rakow at ifh.de
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
>  Worth Anderson <worth_a at yahoo.com> wrote: 
>     
> > >A resource it identifies
> > >is: Borchert, Reinhard, "Die Kartei Quassowski,"
> > >(Hamburg: Verein fur Familienforschung in Ost-
> und
> > >Westpreussen e.v., 1992), FHL book 943.8 D22k.
> > >
> > >An index to this multi-volume work is available
> online
> > >at <http://www.kartei-quassowski.de.vu/>  
> 
> 
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