[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kiev Church book Records

[Nelson]

Hello William:
How I envy you your ability to read the old German script.I have enough
difficulty with the later script.
I know I have ancestors in those early years, but have no way of reading
them. Maybe some good soul will extract them and translate them into
readable form. Thanks for the information.
Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Remus" <remus at cba.hawaii.edu>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kiev Church book Records


> As noted earlier on this list, the Kiev records are not indexed but are
> available on microfilm from the Mormons. The records are nearly complete
for
> 1885 and earlier. All but one missing year is available at the Kiev
> archives. The SGGEE website lists the film numbers.
>
>
>
> These records are easy to work with. The parish is relatively small so the
> number of records to dig through are relatively few compared to Volhynia.
> The pastor also had very clear writing and kept fairly detailed records
> (parents of brides and grooms and the villages in which the births
occurred,
> for example). It is quite elegant script but unfortunately old German
> script.
>
>
>
> The pastor lived in Kiev and when the land unfroze, he would go out to the
> villages and find out what had happened during winter (babies and deaths).
> (I don't blame him for avoiding the Ukrainian winter and staying snug in
> Kiev). So the annual information for each village clumps together as he
> travels from village to village. My villages of Romansdorf, Ludwigsdorf,
> Grunwald, and Malin were usually in the area of record #100 in the birth
> register. Usually you had to get married when he visited or visit him in
> Kiev so the marriage records are not clumped.
>
>
>
> The pastor in Kiev and the one in Volhynia baptized as they traveled
(parish
> lines weren't signposted) so you may find Kiev records in Volhynia (for
> example Grunwald village) and some east Volhynia records in Kiev).
>
>
>
> The post 1885 records are in Russian (unreadable to me) and are at the
Kiev
> archives. By the way, is there a good person in Kiev who searches these
> archives on request?
>
>
>
> Best Christmas Wishes
>
> Bill Remus
>
> Volhynia: Anielowka, Sapust, Berestovitz, and Faustendorf villages
>
> (go to www.cba.hawaii.edu/remus/genes/ and click on Old Volhynia or
Central
> Volhynia)
>
> Kiev: Romansdorf, Ludwigsdorf, Grunwald, and Malin
>
> (go to www.cba.hawaii.edu/remus/genes/ and click on Romansdorf)
>
> Families: Hoffmans, Remus, Spitzer, Lehmann, Radke, Reiser, plus
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