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

[Paul Rakow]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jan Peters wrote:

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

  Dear Jan, 

      The Quassowski books have short bits of information in 
 them, concerning people who lived (for the most part) in East 
 Prussia. The index on the web is to tell you which page of the
 book to read. 

      Since Dave Obee has copies of the books maybe he could 
 give an example or two of the sort of information they contain. 
 (It's quite a few years since I last used these books). 
 For the most part it seems to be quite isolated facts, it 
 isn't really clear to me just what Quassowski was trying to
 achieve with his collection of data. 

      As I said in my first posting, I never found anything useful
 to me in these books, even though I have connections to East Prussia. 

     I think a "hit" that would be interesting is 
 1) If you were searching for a *genuinely* rare name, and found from
 the book a town where someone of that name lived. 
 or 2) 
 you found someone with the right name in a town or village that you
 already knew your family was connected too, so that you could assume 
 it was a potential relation. 

         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/>  
>>