[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Search for Grandparents Origins

[Stephen H Karlson]

Might we be talking about Walki, which is just west of Jagodinka.
Jagodinka is north of Zhitomir on the Zhitomir-Korosten railroad?

> Wolenski = Volhynia.
>
> Volka = Wolka / Wulka
>
> Wolka / Wulka is a place name that can stand alone or goes together with
> another word.  Heimtal is the name of a Lutheran Parish in Volhynia and
> that is the most probable connection to Wolka.
>
> The only one presently known to be in the parish of Heimtal is Wulka
> Zelenickaja which is located about 20 km almost due north of Heimtal.
>
> To find Heimtal on a modern map, go to
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/x-ussr/ukraine.html and click on Zitomir,
> then #57.  If necessary, enlarge the map that comes up.  Go to horizontal
> line 04 and then across to vertical line 84.  Here you will see a village
> extending along the road in a north-south direction with the number 227.8
> beside it.  That is Heimtal.
>
> For Wulka, go to the next map north, #45.  Go to horizontal line 26 and
> across to vertical 86.  The village at that intersection is Huta
> Zelenickaja (Guta Zelenizka).  Heading SE from there is a dashed
> trail.  Wulka was down that trail, just below line 24.
>
> A word of caution - It is possible that there is another Wulka / Wolka in
> the Heimtal parish that is not yet documented as a Germanic village.
>
> If you check the St. Pete records on the SGGEE site, you will find one
> Johann Meister family still having children in the late 1870s.  To ensure
> you have the right family, you may have to track down siblings of Julius
> and Eva.
>
> The bad news is that records after 1885 are not easy to obtain.
>
>
> At 01:41 PM 07/04/2004 -0400, David & Rose Mary Schmidtke wrote:
> >I am trying to get information about the parents of my grandfather Julius
> >Schmidtke and/or his wife Eva Meister. They listed their origins on their USA
> >citizenship papers as Wolenski and Volka respectively.
> >
> >Julius Schmidtke born September 15, 1866, where ? Only somewhere in
> >Poland/Russia.
> >
> >Eva Meister born October 23, 1867 - in Russia, Father John Meister. She had a
> >sister who married Julius Buss on June 24, 1890 in Heimthal, Russia. They
> >migrated to USA in 1892 and took up residence in Perhtigo, Wisconsin.
> >
> >Julius and Eva had two girls before departing for USA. I believe they were
> >married in 1894 in Volka. They were both listed on the ships roster as from
> >Volka and were Bludina - August 25, 1895 and Othelia born October 9, 1897.
> >
> >They came to USA on April 26, 1899 aboard the Munchen also called Manken out
> >of Bremen. Left Bremen on April 13 and Arrived in Baltimore on April 26.
> >
> >The latest information was the marriage location of the Buss' so I am
> >wondering how to check on the village of Heimthal to see if it could be close
> >to a "Volka" and be the place my grandmother may have been from and where she
> >was married and had children before leaving for USA.

Stephen Karlson               skarlson at niu.edu                 *-- 154393

Researching Kalbes (also Kielbasa and variants) in Walki, and Samsell from
nearby towns.