[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Beginning in Volhynia

[Gary Warner]

Becca,

The Julianna Karas (born 10 Jul 1880) that we have marrying a Samuel 
Werner is the half great aunt of one of our members, and the half first 
cousin once removed of another of our members.   Unfortunately neither 
of our members shows any information for Samuel, other than his name.  I 
will send you a separate email with their email addresses.

I assume that you have the Karas and Baum lines further back- our 
records show the Baums back to 1788, and the Karas family back to 1802

Gary Warner
SGGEE

Becca Rowley wrote:
> I'm new to this list, and I subscribed after find some old posts about
> people in Volhynia and that part of the world.
>
> So - I have some problems, and I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm
> not even sure if I'm in the right place of Europe with this list (I need to
> brush up on my European geography).
> My great grandmother is Julianna Karras (Karas, maybe other spellings even).
> She was born in Volhynia, and on the gedcom my family has, it says her
> spouse Samuel Werner Jr. was born in Rovno, Volhynia. However, there is no
> source as to that fact (given) and I have not been able to find him in the
> St. Petersburg Archives (My father was raised Lutheran, and Julianna was in
> the archives, so I assumed that would be a natural place to search). His
> birth year is given as 1879, which is at least mostly true, because ship
> records of him immigrating to Canada (from Libau, to Halifax, NS on the SS
> Czar) have him listed as 34 years old in 1913, so the date we think is
> pretty accurate.
> Well, the problem is that I cannot find any other record of him anywhere (as
> to birth, marriage to Julianna, etc). It seems unlikely that he would have
> been something other than Lutheran, married a Lutheran woman (but either not
> in Volhynia, or not as recorded by the Lutheran church) and then raised his
> family Lutheran. However, it is possible that he was not born in Volhynia,
> and even that he married Julianna somewhere else. The other problem is that
> he died before many of his grandchildren were born (my father included) and
> all of his children are also deceased. So... unless I can find a relatively
> older obscure relative (and my father's family was never very close), I'm at
> my wits end as to how to find out about him - and if I can't find out about
> him, my hopes of finding out who his parents are are slim.
>
> Anyone who can help me - point me in the right direction, give me tips on
> some place to begin (other than the "ask your relatives about their
> memories" etc) would be endeared to my heart forever!
>
> Help!
> Thanks,
> Becca R
>
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