[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ways to look for pre-Volhynia family origins

[Nancy Gertner]

Dan:

Have you checked the transcribed church records at the "Odessa" website?

http://www.odessa3.org/collections/stpete/volhynia/

The high mortality rate can provide some clues to origin, as if you 
look at the death records, there is frequently a place of birth listed. 
  Search on your family names, or on the name of the village they lived 
in Volhynia, and look at the places where other people were born.  
Because the people generally migrated in groups, your people probably 
came from the same place as others in Volhynia.

Many people in Zhitomir had origins in Posen Province.  I've seen the 
name BUSS in the Lutheran records of Schokken (Skoki) Parish in Kreis 
Wongrowitz.  I don't recall seeing Wildemann or Thiergarth.  Have you 
searched for these names in the IGI at Familysearch.org?

Both of these search methods have been successful for helping me 
determine which LDS films to find records of my ancestral family in.

Nancy

On Feb 17, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Dan wrote:

> Looks like I've stumbled upon a great web site. I hope someone will be 
> able to
> help me get past a roadblock. I have good information on my father's 
> ancestry,
> Emil BUSS, but I can't get past my grandparents on my mother's side.
> Emil and Albertine
> were of the Evangelical Lutheran faith.
> Daniel Buss