[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Hildebrandt family name

[Klaus-Guenter Leiss]

Am 25 Aug 2008 um 8:54 hat Jerry Frank geschrieben:

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> If you browse around our website enough, you will find clues about the what
> and where of Volhynia.  We had a full hour session on it at our convention
> a couple of weekends ago.  Very simply, Volhynia was a province in the
> Polish / Lithuanian empire prior to the partitions of the late 1700s. 
> After that, it was a province (sometimes referred to as Gubernia) in Russia
> until WW I.  From 1921 through WW II, it was split in half with the east
> being in Poland and the west in Russia.  That probably explains why your
> father states he was born in Poland.  After WW II, it ceased to exist,
> being split into 3 districts in Ukraine consisting of Wolhyn, Rivne, and
> Zhitomir.  Wolhynien is the German spelling.
> 
I think it was west in poland and east in russia

Klaus Leiss

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