[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 44, Issue 10

[HorstRenz at aol.com]

This is to any and all out there:  Since you're on the topic of Janows  in 
Mittelpolen--I would be very grateful if someone could help me in researching  
my paternal grand and great-grandparents.  I seem to have hit a wall and  can't 
seem to get further.  My grandfather , August Ren(t)z  was  according to a 
number of documents, born in Janow/ Gouv. Warschau on 10 Feb.  1864 .  In my 
researches, I've discovered 36 Janows existing in Russian  Poland (Mittelpolen) 
in the 19th century, at least half a dozen in Gouv.  Warschau.  My father had 
told me years ago that his father, August, was  from Minsk.  I've never found 
any documents supporting that as a  birthplace, but there was supposedly a 
Janow a few km. from Minsk in the  Warschau Gouv.  There don't seem to be any 
Lutheran records in Minsk or  surrounding area from the 1860's surviving.  Might 
there be something in  the Catholic records for that area and where would I 
Iook for  it?   My great-grandfather, Gottlieb Ren(t)z was also supposedly born  
in Gouv. Warschau in @ 1839, but I don't know exactly where or when.   
Gottlieb's wife, my great-grandmother, Justine Werner, was supposedly born @1843  in 
Borowe/ Kreis Grojec-Pilica in Warschau Gouv. , but I haven't been able to  
find her in the Grojec records either because there's a gap in the records  
around the time of her birth.  Complicating all this is the discovery that  there 
was a Janow in the area of Grojec as well.  The records don't seem to  go back 
to 1839 and I haven't found traces of any Ren(t)z entries in the ensuing  
years.