[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Heard of Zevirin Volhynia?

[Richard Benert]

Doris,

This may or may not be helpful to you, but here goes anyway.  On a list of
German colonies in Russia which I have there occurs a Sewerinowka in the
Parish of Radomysl.  Radomysl itself is about 50 km northeast of Zhitomir.
Sewerinowka (which may or may not be your "Zeverin", but I suspect it is) is
not on the Stumpp map, but obviously would not be too far from Radomysl.
Your other town, "Horoschel", may possibly be a town about 60 km west (and
slightly north) of Radomysl, identified on the Stumpp map (and others) as
Wolodarsk.  Polish maps call it Horoszki.  Germans in the area that I have
talked to referred to it as something like "Roschek" or "Horoschek".  This
requires replacing the "l" at the end of the name by a "k", which would not
be out of the question, given how handwritten "k"s can sometimes have very
tiny loops at the bottom, making them look like "l"s.

Please take this as a hypothesis, not as gospel truth.  You may be able to
find your Z(s)everin on the Jewishgen.org Stetle-finder.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Doris Smith <donel at mts.net>
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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Date: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Heard of Zevirin Volhynia?


>While researching a relative (Michael Wolter), I found in the St.
>Petersburgh Records that he was married in Shitomir and on the Ellis
>Island Ship records  that he was born in Zevirin and departed Port of
>Bremen for Canada which listed that he came from Horoschel Russia.  Can
>anyone tell me if these Towns/Villages are close enough together that
>this information may be correct? Any maps out there to find these
>places?  Thanks for any help.
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