[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Franzdorf village in Volhynia, families Krentz and Kelm

Gary Warner gary at warnerengineering.com
Wed Oct 17 09:40:37 PDT 2001


Robert,

The only thing that comes to mind is that the name of the village has 
changed with time.  I do recall a list of villages that had alternate names 
in an old issue of Wandering Volhynians.  Jerry may have already used that 
list, however, in making his indices.

Gary Warner

At 01:39 AM 10/17/2001 , Robert  Radke wrote:
>Welcome all to our new mail list!
>
>Does anyone out there know the location of the village of Franzdorf in
>Volhynia, or anything about it?  This village is given as the birthplace of
>my great aunt Pauline KRENTZ (b. 1879, daughter of Georg KRENTZ and Karoline
>KELM or KOLM) in the record of her marriage to Edward LENTZ in the church
>books of the Moravian Church at South Edmonton.  Jerry Frank's best guess is
>that the village was located somewhere north or north-west of Wolodarsk in
>eastern Volhynia, but cannot pinpoint the village more accurately than this.
>(This location is consistent with other family events, which are recorded at
>Heimthal and Zhitomir.)
>
>--Robert Radke <rradke at telus.net>
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