[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Locations in PLOCK - Naming Hierarchy Conventions i...

[Krampetz at aol.com]

I don't recall the exact year,  but in the mid 1800's  there was  an 
uprising 
in the Russian sector of Poland, that after it was put down.    Russia 
clamped
down and told all that they were no longer in Poland,  but now part of  
Russia! .
This was accompanied with orders to stop using Polish and German in  
official
document, AND church documents  (don't know about Latin in Catholic  
documents).
 
This is the reason I have marriage and birth documents from the early  
1800's
written in German (if done at an Evangelic <Lutheran> chuch),  Polish or 
Latin.
Then in the late 1800's,  all documents are in handwritten Cyrillic (a  BEAR
to translate).. 
 
When my German ancestors emigrated from Poland in the early  1900's,  they
gave their "Country of Birth" as "Russia" ..   When I first  started in 
Genealogy,
this "Country of Birth - Russia" had me stymied for a long time.  It  was 
the
eventual  growth of the internet and finding that it was not "Russia"  as 
we 
know it today - but that was what they gave when emigrating  & for  their 
first
census - etc.   
 
Use what makes sense to you..  
 
This is the reason I use my own system, and my own understanding,   than 
what
"Works for ALL" genealogy programs force on us. 
 
P.S.   If I used today's names..   My mother would've  been born in an 
airfield! 
    The Russians wiped out her village and it no longer  exists except as 
runways.
     So even the SGGEE rule has exceptions.
 
Bob Krampetz
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 01/26/15 11:46:34 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
chamdo4ever at gmail.com writes:

was  Poland ever really PART of the Russian
Empire? Legally? Or at least,  legally enough to enter a birth location
in my database from 1866  as:

Nowe Boryszewo > Plock > Masowein > Poland > Russian  Empire ?

Or, legally would it just be  Poland?


 
 
In a message dated 01/26/15 11:46:34 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
chamdo4ever at gmail.com writes:

was  Poland ever really PART of the Russian
Empire? Legally? Or at least,  legally enough to enter a birth location
in my database from 1866  as:

Nowe Boryszewo > Plock > Masowein > Poland > Russian  Empire ?

Or, legally would it just be  Poland?