[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1940 Canadian Registration

[Karl Krueger]

Victor,
I imagine your great aunt was at least 70 years old by 1940. These kinds of responses are found often in EWZ where people list locations (often wrongly) based on their memory. She was likely a small child when the family left to the Lublin area. Then after there a few years they moved to Volhynia. I believe these are the places she remembers best and had no recollection of Kalisz. Therefore, her answers are probably just guesses based on her memory of her childhood. Of course, these people often did not concern themselves with their family history so those kinds of details often became forgotten.
Karl

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, DrVbuzz at aol.com <DrVbuzz at aol.com> wrote:

From: DrVbuzz at aol.com <DrVbuzz at aol.com>
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1940 Canadian Registration
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 1:22 PM

Just received the 1940 Canadian Registration report on my great  Aunt 
Julianna Jess born March 4, 1868.  Her marriage record states born in  Kalisch.
 I 
have birth records of two of her siblings born after her in the  Lublin area
and 
a brother born in Volhynia near Torczyn in 1883. On the  1940 record she 
gives her birth place as Mlynow NW of Dubno, which  is close to where I know
the 
family lived for many of their years in  Volhynia.  She gives Lublin as the 
birth place for both of her  parents, quite sure that information is way off. 
 
The birth village response was a surprise and disappointment after waiting  
so long for the report.  The speculation could go on forever why she  answered 
the question that way.  Did not understand the question, forgot,  wanted to 
mislead - it was 1940 and so on.  
 
Beside the birth and village information there was not much on the report. 
 
Wanted to share my experience with you.  

Victor Gess
Researching in Poland and  Volhynia
Gering/Gess/Jeske/Jess/Kwast/Mildner/Rode/Wonnick-ek-eck/Riske
IwanokaJulianowka/Karlswalde/Moczulki/Satyjew/Shinufka
Bielsko/Chmielewo/Kalisch/Karolinow/Plock




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