[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Old German newspapers - in Latvian National Library

Mauricio Norenberg mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 14:52:08 PST 2016


Looking further, seems like a lengthy article.
Would be good if could just copy and paste on google translator



On 26 February 2016 at 11:42, Mauricio Norenberg <
mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Helen, it was actually me not Eduardo :)
>
> I am really interested on a translation of that article from mass
> migration in 1908.
> This because my family migrated exactly on that year.
>
> I definitely need to add advanced German Language to the list of skills I
> must have real soon.
>
> Regards
> Mauricio
>
> On 26 February 2016 at 03:10, Helen Gillespie <gilleh23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To the list,
>>
>> Following Eduard Kommers' query about the Rigasche Rundschau article on
>> mining, I poked around the website and found that the Latvian National
>> Library has many digitized German language periodicals/newspapers.  I
>> searched for WOLHYNIEN and it spit out 2265 hits in many different
>> publications. Obviously some are not going to be of genealogical use, but
>> others might give some background on the time and place. Please note that
>> a
>> number of the publications are in Fraktur - the old German script.
>>
>> Might be worth a browse also for those searching for WARTHEGAU - there
>> were
>> 4 hits that referred to the Wolhynien Germans who had been moved to
>> Warthegau in 1940.
>>
>> https://periodika.lndb.lv/#searchResults;simpleQuery=wolhynien
>>
>> One issue describes the distress of Wolhynians in 1926 due to the Polish
>> Government's changes regarding leased land and land ownership based on
>> citizenship.  Probably explains why so many left Wolhynia in these years
>> between the world wars.
>>
>> *"Deutsche Not in Wolhynien"  (German distress in Wolhynia)*
>>
>>
>> https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp|issue:/p_003_riru1926s01n149|article:DIVL142|query:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien|issueType:P
>> <https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp%7Cissue:/p_003_riru1926s01n149%7Carticle:DIVL142%7Cquery:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien%7CissueType:P>
>> <
>> https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp%7Cissue:/p_003_riru1926s01n149%7Carticle:DIVL142%7Cquery:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien%7CissueType:P
>> >
>>
>>
>> An article in 1908 on the Rigasche Zeitung talks about the emigration of
>> German colonists - sometimes a whole village.
>>
>>
>> https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp|issue:/p_003_duze1908s01n036|article:DIVL43|query:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien%20Wolhyniens|issueType:P
>> <https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp%7Cissue:/p_003_duze1908s01n036%7Carticle:DIVL43%7Cquery:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien%20Wolhyniens%7CissueType:P>
>> <
>> https://periodika.lndb.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=en#panel:pp%7Cissue:/p_003_duze1908s01n036%7Carticle:DIVL43%7Cquery:Wolhynien%20Wolhynien%20Wolhyniens%7CissueType:P
>> >
>> I am also checking out items relating to the 1915 deportation of Wolhynian
>> Germans to Siberia, although I expect names will not be listed.  Still the
>> subject matter on the routes taken, the numbers involved would be
>> interesting.   The search engine does permit searching by decade - noted
>> on
>> the left border.
>>
>> Some of the titles of the articles are headed "INLAND", which I have
>> discovered refers to reports from the "Interior", Latvia falling under the
>> Russian Empire, I gather.
>>
>> Will also check out "FLÜCHTLINGE" - refugees for both the 1915 and 1940-45
>> era......
>>
>> I will be browsing for a while....
>>
>> The Home Page is also avlb in English
>> http://www.lnb.lv/en/resources/digital-library
>> *but *any online books require registration for limited use if the
>> material
>> is avlb free on line.  I have not researched in detail if there are costs
>> as I was interested only in the newspapers/periodicals.
>>
>> Hope some of these sources are useful.....
>>
>>
>>
>> Helen
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