[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lodz or Chodecz

Paul Rakow paul.rakow at cantab.net
Sat Apr 25 12:39:00 PDT 2015


 Hi Gail,

      Now that I check, I see that you are right about there being
 two different towns called Lanieta, and the one you have been
 looking at online is the wrong one for  you.

            Paul

On Sat, April 25, 2015 20:22, gswilson19 at aol.com wrote:
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> Rose and Paul, thank you.  Yes, Luise Kitzmann was born 3 Aug 1849 in
> Lanieta.  It is on the LDS film I previously mentioned.  I was just
> confused as to why I was finding Lanieta records for Chodecz and Lodz.  I
> was told by someone else that there was a Lanieta in Chodecz and also one
> in Lodz., two different cities.   I am still very confused about what
> Parish to look in when it comes to these old records.  I keep trying and
> trying but just can't get it straight.
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> Gail
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> From: Rose Ingram <roseingram at shaw.ca>
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> Cc: Gswilson19 <Gswilson19 at aol.com>
> Sent: Sat, Apr 25, 2015 1:05 pm
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Lodz or Chodecz
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> Gail
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> Luise is definitely found in Chodecz Lutheran church records as you
> indicate.  I have photocopies of the indexes from the Chodecz films.
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> From:    Paul Rakow
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> Hello gwilson,
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> I'm not quite clear from your mail what the connection
> to Lanieta is - does the Chodecz film give Lanieta as the birth place? (We
> don't know your family as well as you do.)
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> The Lanieta records you are looking at on-line are the Civil
> records for the Catholic parish of Lanieta. (They are now kept in the
> archive in Lodz, but are not connected to Lodz in any other way). Even
> though they are Catholic records, I do see one or two German surnames each
> year, so its possible you might find something there. The quick way to
> check is to look at the final page or two of each section, which has a
> surname index.
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> Probably most of the Germans from Lanieta would show up
> in the Chodecz Protestant records instead. From the catalogue, I think the
> LDS films are the Chodecz church records (are they
> in German?).  I would expect that the Pastor in Chodecz originally kept two
> sets of records:  church records, and civil records in Polish - but the
> only Protestant Chodecz records I can find are the ones on the LDS
> microfilm.
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> Paul Rakow
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> On Fri, April 24, 2015 19:13,   gswilson19 at aol.com wrote:
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>> Looking at Metryki.Genbaza in Lodz, I see some scans for Lanieta. When
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>> refer back to the information I received from SGGEE on my 2nd grt
>> grandmother Louisa Kitzmann it says her birth record was found on LDS
>> film # 0813112 Chodecz 1849 birth #80. Is the Lodz records the church
>> books and the Chodecz records the Civil records? Will I find the birth
>> in both places? I'm struggling through the writing and the Lodz records
>> and want to make sure I'm not on a wild goose chase.
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