[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Sources (was: More on Germans in Poland)

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Hi all,
 
    I have received several requests for a list of my source  material that I 
have gathered over the years, and on which I base my conclusions  and 
opinions regarding the migrations of ethnic Germans into the central Poland  region.  
Therefore, I have decided to send to the list in the hopes of  helping as 
many as possible.
 
1. 150 Jahre Schwabensiedlungen in Polen 1795-1945; Otto Heike; Fourth  
Edition, 1991
 
This book describes almost all the German villages that were founded at  
various times along with a great deal of information about when the village was  
founded, where the settlers came from (sometimes with details such as what  
village in Germany they came from!), who got how much land, and who still lived  
there in the 1940s.
 
2. Die Auswanderung der Württemberger nach  Westpreußen und dem Netzegau, 
1776-1786; Max Miller
 
This book lists all settlers in the first  wave as found in the Berlin 
achives along with some details about where they  came from and where they settled.  
This was published by a genealogical  society in Germany in the 1960s or 
1970s.
 
3. Deutschland und Polen; Helmuth Fechner; 1964
 
4. Auswanderungen aus Baden und dem Breisgau; Werner Hacker
 
5. Die evangelisch-augsburgischen Gemeinden in Polen 1555 - 1939; Eduard  
Kneifel
 
6. Letter from the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, dated  29 
Aug 2001
 
In this letter, a representative of the archive kindly identified which  
volumes I should search for in the Warsaw archives, and what records they had on  
hand in Berlin.  For the records in Berlin, the details are as  follows:  
Signatur: GStA PK, II. HA Generaldirektorium, Neuostpreussen,  Materien, Abt VI Nr 
1104.  The letter describes that this volume contains a  tabulated list of 
materials allocated to each village around Plock.  They  were able to find the 
names of four of my ancestors in these lists.
 
7. Chronik der Familie Vetter; Karl-Heinz Eisner; 1997
 
This is a self-published booklet (by the author) that describes the travels  
of the Vetter family as they moved from Oeschelbronn in Wuerttemberg to Plock, 
 Poland, on to Volhynia, back to East Prussia after WW1, and finally back to  
Germany in 1945.  It was intended for all descendants of the original  Vetter 
patriarch and has a some excellent research on the economic conditions in  
Wuerttemberg around 1800 and the conditions found in Plock Poland during the  
first few years after the settlement was founded.
 
8. Chronik der Gemeinde Niefern-Oeschelbronn; Friedrich Leicht and Guenther  
Schmalacker; 2002
 
This book contains two chapters describing the two waves of emigration from  
Oeschelbronn.  In the second wave, Oeschelbronn lost almost 10% of it's  
population in 1803 when a group of about 80 people set out for Poland.  It  is also 
interesting that it mentions that the Prussian recruiters had an office  in a 
nearby town from which they conducted their recruiting operations.
 
9. Church records for Fluorn and Spoeck contain notations by several  people, 
indicating that they left for Poland during the two migration  periods
 
10. Inventur und Teilungsbuch Oeschelbronn, 1802-1803; Civil Records
 
This is an original copy of all civil transactions that took place in  
Oeschelbronn between May 1802 and February 1803.  This is where I found a  record of 
two of my ancestors disposing of all their debts and obligations  before they 
departed for Poland.
 
11. Several books (one from each village identified as the ancestral home  
for an ancestor) with references to people leaving for Poland.  Villages  
include Staffort, Wittershausen, Korb, Fluorn, Trichtingen, and Spoeck.
 
12. Das Deutschtum in Mittelpolen; A. Breyer; 1938?
 
 
This book also has a beautiful map in the back, with a high degree of  detail 
on villages and origins of the settlers.  It also has a copy of a  
advertisement put out by the Polish authorities in 1817
 
13. Gedenkschrift zur 125jaehrigen Jubilaeumsfeier der  
evangelisch-lutherischen Pfarrgemeinde Plock; Robert Grundlach, Pastor;  1929
 
14. Documents copied from the original Prussian records now kept at the  main 
archive in Warsaw.
 
A few of these books can be found in microfilm or microfiche form through  
the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT, however, most of them are  
not (including the original records from Oeschelbronn, and the two archives). 
I  am not aware of any of this being available on the internet.
 
That should do it for now.  If you have any questions, please let me  know.
 
Take care,
 
    -Paul



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