[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lutheran Church records after 1885 were in Russian

[Krampetz at aol.com]

I have my grandfather's birth record from Lipno in 1881 written in  Russian,
so it's earlier than 1885.   
 
There is one Polish web site that has one or two people that do read old 
Russian handwriting and translate it to Polish - which CAN be  translated
from the now digital Polish to English  ...  OR you may get lucky  and have
someone that will take it from Russian directly to English.   
_http://www.genealodzy.pl/index.php?&newlang=eng_ 
(http://www.genealodzy.pl/index.php?&newlang=eng) 
 
Is the LDS formally translating records now????
 
Bob
 
 
In a message dated 03/08/10 05:16:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nancygertner at mac.com writes:

The St.  Petersburg Lutheran church records through 1885 were in German.

After  that, in Russian.

I'm not sure what their current status is with  LDS.

I thought Gwen with LDS was working with a group of translators  to  
get them transcribed, but have not heard status on that for  awhile.

Gwen died several years ago, so that may have had some impact  on the  
project.

While the German records are challenging  enough for most of us, the  
Russian cyrillic writing is even more  challenging!

Nancy

On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Sarah Nielsen  wrote:

>
> I've noticed that most of the records that are  available for  
> searching don't extend beyond 1885. I'm just  curious what options I  
> have to research records that fall a  little later--particularly  
> through 1915.
>
> Thanks  for your input,
>
> Sarah  Nielsen


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