[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] House numbers

[Günther Böhm]

Bill Fife schrieb:

>All the church records I have viewed from Galicia have the house number 
>listed.  It does make it much easier to trace families as very often one of 
>the children eventually resides in the house when the parents pass on.  It 
>also makes it easier to trace the parents when the writing is bad as the 
>house number at birth is a good clue to the parents.
>
Bill,
supposedly it was an all-Austrian regulation to use house numbers (both 
Galicia and Bohemia were parts of the Austrian Empire).

Guenther