[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Church records for Wirballen/Virbalis

[Gary Warner]

Manfred,

When you get early enough in any area in Poland about 1840), the 
Lutheran parish that you are looking may disappear because it was not 
yet created.   You then need to look to see if there is a mother parish 
that would cover the same area.   In this case, Suwalki appears to be 
close enough to Wirballen to _possibly_ fit that calling.   The question 
will be, even if it is the mother parish (I cannot say that it was), 
would the Lutherans in that area register their life events there or in 
a closer Catholic parish?    Records are available for Suwalki from 
1793- you can most easily get to the Family History link for those 
records through our site at

http://www.sggee.org/church_parishes/LutheransInRusPoland

by clicking on the Suwalki link on that page.

I am sorry that I do not have any information on any Catholic parishes 
in that area (if there were any).   This area is possibly far enough 
north that there were no Catholic parishes.

Gary Warner

Manfred Kettel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It would be helpful very much to find the church that had the records for
> Wirballen/Virbalis/Wierzbolowo/Verzhbolov (Wilkowyszki district) and the
> area to 12 miles south-east of Wirballen. This would be for the years
> 1800-1840. This would have important information on my ancestors. Perhaps a
> catholic church had these records but which one?
>
> Manfred
>
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>
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