[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Warsaw records 1860s

[Jerry Frank]

Robin,

Your search will be complicated by the fact that the reference to 
Warsaw (depending on the source of your information) could be to the 
city, diocese, or province.  If the latter two, you could end up 
looking at quite a large number of different Lutheran Parishes.  Have 
you looked at records for Kiev parish to see what other info might be 
available for the family?  The data stops in 1885 but you could find 
info about Karl's siblings if you know them.  To view the records on 
line, go to http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch , click on 
Asia, and then on Russian Lutheran Church Books.

There are no convenient Ortssippenbuch for Poland.  Really old church 
records might be in German but more typically they are in Polish 
before 1867 and Russian Cyrillic after that.

A list of microfilms for the Warsaw parish itself can be found at 
http://www.sggee.org/church_parishes/LutheransInRusPoland

In place of the Ortssippenbuch, we do have our SGGEE database 
extractions available to members only but your Karl is not found 
there yet.  However, I am not sure if anyone has been working on 
extraction of the Warsaw Parish records.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca


At 01:03 AM 14/12/2008, Robin Grube wrote:
>Hello list members:
>I have been researching my German ancestors from the former Austro-Hungarian
>Empire and I thought the experience I gained would help me now that I am
>searching for more information on another German line from Poland/Russia.
>Not so! I feel like a beginner again, but can someone tell me if Germans in
>Warsaw ( probably Lutheran) used one or several churches, did they live in
>mixed neighborhoods, or by themselves in the 1860s? My greatgrandfather came
>to the US in 1892 with wife and new baby, from Kiev. I don't know how long
>he had lived there, but he listed on official documents that he was born in
>Warsaw.
>HAAK, Karl * 26.11.1863
>Were there Ortsippenbuchs or other German records from this area? Are Family
>History Library microfilmed church records available? Thanks for any ideas
>of paths to pursue. Robin Haak Grube
>