[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re:"Prussian by Birth

[bfand]

 After the division of Poland the first wave of German colonists
 into the Babiak/ Kolo areas started in the late 1770s / early 1780s.
Many of these families had previously lived in the province of Posen
just prior to migrating into the Babiak / Kolo area ,but there appears to
 have  also been a secondary migration into this area just slightly later,
perhaps in the 1790s / early 1800s and ive noticed that there were
quite a number of these people coming from the Driesen area
which is just north of the province of Posen.  I believe that anyone
who had come from there would have been considered as being
Prussian by birth as many of those families had been in that area
for some time.

Bob



----- Original Message -----
From: <Carolpauly at aol.com>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re:"Prussian by Birth


> Some of the documents in our family show on both mother and fathers
records
> as "Prussian by Birth".  Fathers family from Emden, Germany and mothers
from
> Czarnikau and Kolo-Babiak Poland.  Does this mean nothing more than the
area
> of birth?
>
> Would appreciate knowing the answer.
>
> Carol
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