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

John Marsch jmarsch at t2.net
Wed Oct 17 10:15:14 PDT 2001


    I am sure Jerry has but in any case, I also checked the name change list
referred to and Franzdorf doesn't appear on it.

John Marsch

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>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:
>>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.)



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