[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Connection found in Westlock, AB Canada

Mauricio Norenberg mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 23:36:01 PDT 2015


Hi Paul,

Dave Obee commented about this one. On this link it shows Gotlip &
Christine:
http://records.ancestry.com/reinhold_haenschke_records.ashx?pid=144937360

I will try to find out about the tree owners.

Cheers

On 10 April 2015 at 18:32, Paul Rakow <paul.rakow at cantab.net> wrote:

>
>   Hello,
>
>       If you are on ancestry.com you can see 3 family trees
>  with Reinhold in them - they show he has some living family.
>  You could try contacting the tree owners. One at least gives
>  a quite detailed entry about Reinhold, so it's likely to
>  be from a close relation.
>
>      None of the trees know who Reinhold's parents were.
>
>           Paul Rakow
>
> On Fri, April 10, 2015 05:46, Mauricio Norenberg wrote:
> > Hi list
> >
> >
> > Regarding the discussion of Volhyians in Brazil then Canada, I have just
> > found a strong lead that I am pretty confident will restore a 100 years
> > old lost connection. My grandma always commented about a Henschke that
> used
> > to exchange letters with her and her family back in the day. She always
> > wanted to reconnect. Before she died in 2003, she left a note with his
> > name: Reinhold Henschke,
> > son of her aunt.
> >
> > I found out her auntie was Christine Norenberg, who married Gottlieb
> > Norenberg, had a son called Reinhold in 1891 in Volhyina (ROZ).
> >
> >
> > I had tried Ancestry.com\Findagrave search many times before so was a
> > surprise to find Reinhold's grave just a few days ago:
> >
> > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119722841
> >
> >
> > Westlock seems to be close to Edmonton. Anyone here from Edmonton?
> >
> >
> > I wonder if anyone here would be able to find out who looks after
> > Reinhold's grave, I take it would be fairly easy to know where are his
> > relatives?
> >
> > Anyone keen to volunteer on contacting them for me and perhaps visit them
> >  if they live near your place? The reason I am asking is because I'm a
> > bit cautious about phoning them, I had experiences of people thinking
> it's
> > a scam and also I don't want to scare them away.My Brazilian accent
> > doesn't help either.
> >
> > Basically I just need to know who are Reinhold's parents for a start.
> >
> >
> > I am pretty excited that this would be a reunion and perhaps they will
> > have a whole new world of information from my ancestors.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Mauricio
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