[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Translation please...

Wed Jul 9 10:44:33 PDT 2003

Nelson,
There are several series of EWZ files. You can read about who they are organized here:
http://www.genealogyunlimited.com/daveobee/ewzmain.html

All LDS has is EWZ57 and EWZ58. 58 is very useful but you need to know the Stammblatt number of the person/family you are looking for to know what film to order. If you are lucky you can find your relatives in EWZ57 but the information given in them is often sparse. The listing of names is far from complete. It is unfortunate that LDS did not reproduce the EWZ 50-54 series as these are the most useful for doing genealogical research (and you will also find the Stammblatt numbers important to your family). Since these series comprise the actual applications, you find most pages are not relevant to true genealogical data, but the information you find with each application about a family is often more detailed than the first draft Stammblaetter you find in EWZ58. 

Since my family is from Poland I use EWZ52 and EWZ58 almost exclusively, but without the information I first get in EWZ52, 58 would not be of much help. So from 52 I can look up any person of interest, then in 58 I can find who else is from the same town and find other possible relatives (like females who married into another family and thus are under different surname).

Nelson <colnels at shaw.ca> wrote:
Hi Jerry: Aren't those EWZ files also available out of Salt Lake?
Nelson Itterman
Edmonton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frank" 
To: "Scott Kletke" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Translation please...

> Regarding the Pokrant surname in the message, the Pokrants from Volhynia
> are holding a family reunion this weekend in Rosenfeld, Manitoba. This
may
> be of interest to your contact.
>
> Also, the EWZ records which you may have seen mentioned on other postings
> will probably be of value to him in tracing the WW II migration of his
> family. Originals are in a German archive with copies in Washington, DC.
>
>
>
>
> At 11:28 AM 09/07/2003 -0400, Scott Kletke wrote:
> >Thank you for the translations. I can't thank you all enough. It looks
like
> >a real connection for me and the development of some good contacts with
> >German relatives!
> >Thanks again!
> >Scott
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Margrit Weigel" 
> >To: "ScottKletke" 
> >Cc: 
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:19 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Translation please...
> >
> >
> > > Dear Scott,
> > >
> > > Here my trial to translate the letter:
> > >
> > > Dear Scott,
> > > I found your request in the internet and will tell you know what I
know.
> > > Our ancestors Andreas Fitzner and his wife Henrietta Schulsk probably
> >emigrated in 1863/64 to Volhynia. Andreas Fitzner could be the son of of
> >Andreas Fitzner and Christine Langner. They got married the 11th Feb 1848
in
> >Kobylin, Posen, Prussia. At the wedding Andreas has been probably 34 and
> >Christine 26 years old. But this still has to be investigated closer.
> > > Our ancestors Andreas Fitzner and H. Schulsk had at least 3 sons:
August
> >Fitzner (*1857?), Friedrich Fitzner *1859 (your gr gr grandfather) and
> >Eduard Fitzner *1861. My gr gr grandfather is August Fitzner.
> > > Your gr gr grandfather seems to have married in 1883 in Kostopol Mrs
> >Wilhelmine Draeger *1858.
> > > Their known children are: Amelia Mathilda Fitzner *27.9.1885, Lydia
> >Fitzner *1886?, Otilia Fitzner *1890 and Friedrich Fitzner *1892.
> > >
> > > Questions: When did your gr gr grandfather emigrate to Canada? Can you
> >give me your family tree with those dates you know?
> > >
> > > My gr gr grandfather August Fitzner married in 1884 in Kurgany Mrs
Amalia
> >Pokrant. They had a lot of children. Known to me are: Anna, Emma,
Reinhold,
> >Adolf, Jonathan, Heinrich, Wilhelm, Ferdinand. My gr grandfather
Erdmann,
> >Ludwig Fitzner was born in 1885 in Kurgany. He married Oct 22,1909 in
> >Tutschin (church) Emilia Buchholtz. They had the following kids: Eduard
*Jul
> >02nd 1913 (my father - died oct 1997), Heinrich *Mar 11th 1916, dead; Ida
> >*Feb 15th 1915, died 1945; Paul *Dec 12 1919, died as soldier in 1940;
Olga
> >*Apr 16th 1923.
> > >
> > > My father Eduard Fitzner married May 5th 1934 in Kostopol my mother
Lydia
> >Rennwranz, *Feb 12th1913. My mother is now 90 years old and lives at the
> >home of my brother.
> > >
> > > I have 7 brothers and sisters, but my brother Adolf has died already.
> >Brothers and sisters: Benjamin, Reinhard, Magdalene, Adolf (dead), Else,
> >Erich, Helmut. I was born May 11th 1948, then came Erich und Helmut. At
Apr
> >24th 1970 I married Christa Feller and now we are already married for 33
> >years. Our only daughter was born in 1970. She is married and has two
> >children, our grandchildren Kevin (10 yrs old) and Alisa (8 yrs old).
> > >
> > > I still try to make my family tree, but due WWII all "Germans" from
> >Volhynia got resettled to the "Warthegau", Germany. There aren't left any
> >documents or church books. At he moment I try to research in the Federal
> >Archives of Germany.
> > >
> > > Dear Scott, I hope you know somebody who can translate my mail. I
would
> >like to get an answer from you.
> > > Best wishes from Germany from your relative Heinrich Fitzner.
> > >
> > > My email adr: Heifi-Lshfn at t-online.de
> > >
> > > Dear Scott,
> > >
> > > although we don't know each other, I hope, I could help a little.
> > > Sorry about my mistakes. If something is not clear for you, please let
me
> >know.
> > >
> > > Best wishes from Cologne, Germany
> > >
> > > Margrit Weigel
> > >
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
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> >__
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> >
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> Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
> jkfrank at shaw.ca
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