[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please

[rlyster at telusplanet.net]

Thankyou all for your help...now I get the "picture".  My family are the 
Sillentin/Selents!

Rita Lyster


Quoting Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>:

> Good description, Joe.
> 
> To see the location on a map, download:
> 
> http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/41-52.jpg
> 
> Enlarge the map if necessary and go to the right hand side.  Follow the
> numbers there.  Just above the 52 you will see the city of Brest Litowsk.  Go
> further down to the #50 and still a little further to see the word Russland
> written along the side.  A grid line extends to the left from there.  Follow
> it till it crosses the river which is the Bug River.  Just below that line is
> the place name Kol. Nejbrow.  That is Neubruch.  Just above you will see Kol.
> Nejdorf which of course is Neudorf.
> 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Pessarra <joepessarra at suddenlink.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007 1:41 pm
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <rlyster at telusplanet.net>
> > To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:21 AM
> > Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please
> > 
> > 
> > > I am trying to understand the movement of my ancestors:
> > >
> > > Clearly they came from Germany (or whatever it was called then) 
> > to Lodz
> > and
> > > then to villages of Milashev and Mydzk.  I know where these are.
> > >
> > > However the Hollander side from Neudorf-Neubruch on the banks of 
> > the Bug
> > River
> > > (where is this) went to Josefin which is also near Luck as 
> > above...I know
> > > where that is but where can I find Neudorf-Neubruch on a map?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rita Lyster
> > >
> > >
> > The Western Bug River is in the Ukraine, Poland and Belarus.  The 
> > SouthernBug River is in the Ukraine.  See:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(Rivers)
> > 
> > "The Bug or Buh River, called Western Bug to distinguish it from 
> > SouthernBug, flows from central Ukraine to the west, forming part 
> > of the boundary
> > between Ukraine and Poland, passes along the Polish-Belarusian border,
> > within Poland, and empties into the Narew river near Serock 
> > (actually to the
> > artificial Zegrze Lake). The part between the lake and the Vistula 
> > River is
> > sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew. The Vistula River drains into the
> > Baltic Sea."
> > 
> > Check this site.
> > http://www.sggee.org/pipermail/ger-poland-volhynia/2003-
> > July/002090.html
> > "The so called "Bug-Hollander" settlements Neudorf-Neubruch 20km south
> > of Brest were founded in 1617, on the banks of the Bug River. The
> > settlers were of Lutheran faith (no Mennonites) with names like
> > Hildebrand, Hueneburg, Baum, Krebs, Holz, Buetow, Sillentin/Selent,
> > Lodwig, Popke, Ryll, to name a few. By the time their ancestors
> > emigrated to Prussia and Poland (abt. 1520-1550), the Netherlands were
> > part of the German Reich."
> > 
> > Joe in Texas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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