[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Volhynia in Wiki

[Jerry Frank]

Years ago, in the formative stages of the Internet, and before SGGEE 
had been thought of, one of the earliest genealogy websites to exist 
was a site dedicated to German genealogy.  It was set up to include 
the full gamut of Germanic origins world wide.  It contained brief 
histories of the locations where Germans had migrated as well as 
lists of research resources.  As I recall it, the site was originally 
called genealogy.com, a domain name that was eventually purchased 
from its private owners by Ancestry.  I had at the time written 
materials for these pages for the different regions of Russian German research.

The material on this site, however, was not lost and it eventually 
was transposed to the genealogy.net domain name.  As developments 
continued on the Internet, the site became a Wiki style site, 
allowing for automated input by others.  It is now known as
  http://wiki-en.genealogy.net and is, for the most part, available 
in both German and English, just as it was in the formative years.

Much of my original material had remained on the site but it became 
badly outdated.  Gerhard Koening took it upon himself to rewrite the 
material for Volhynia and bring it into modern context.  These pages 
are now available at:

German - http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Wolhynien

English - http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Volhynia

If you'd like, you can still see some of my original material as 
published for Russian Poland at 
http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Russian_Poland .  This too badly in need 
of update but I have not had the time to do it.





Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca