[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Belchatow

[Richard Stein]

Paul,

I extracted the indexes from Belchatow Lutheran microfilms and they are in
the Parish Records Indexes database.  I don't see any Gruenke names, but
there are some Zippel that could be a spelling variant of Zibell.  I don't
know much about the town of Belchatow or what other records may be
available.  Lutheran records started in 1808, but records of 1826 to 1836
are missing.

Dick Stein

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Rakow" <rakow at ifh.de>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Belchatow


>
>    Is there anyone else here who is interested in Belchatow, a textile
>  town in Poland, south of Lodz?
>
>    I have ancestors who lived there in the 1820s. I've found some records
>  of my relatives in the microfilmed metrical books, and am now wondering
>  what else there might be to look at.
>
>     In the British library I've found a local history book, "Belchatow
>  and its historical advance", by Apoloniusz Zawilski, (written 1967, when
>  Poland was still communist, which helps to explain the title). It's a
>  bit of a struggle reading it, since my Polish is quite feeble.
>
>       From the sources he uses, it seems that there are quite a few
>  surviving financial/tax records from the time when the cloth industry
>  was getting started, some in the archives in Warsaw. Some of these
>  include lists of craftsmen. Has anyone experience of this sort of
>  material, maybe from other towns in the Lodz area?
>
>            Paul Rakow
>            rakow at ifh.de
>
>  PS - The main Belchatow families I'm interested in are Gruenke and
Zibell,
>  (with very many spelling variations).
>
>
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