[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Language of Church records

[gpvjem]

     To add to Jerry's comments below:
        The Volhynian German Lutheran record transcripts after 1885  sent to St Petersburg were also prepared in Russian Cyrillic.

John Marsch
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  At 07:18 AM 02/11/2005, DKrausePHS at aol.com wrote:
  >@ things.
  >
  >1.   Pastors were not required to keep church recordes in Polish for
  >Evangelisch German Churches in Poland. These record were in German.
  >
  >My German grandfather Krause married my Polsis Grandmother Sheperski in 1892
  >and was disowned, not because she was Polish but because she was Catholic and
  >he changed from Lutheranism to Catholicism.
  >
  >Duane Krause




  Just to clarify:

  Actual Lutheran (Evangelical) CHURCH records were indeed written in 
  German.  You find examples of this on microfilm for the Ilow 
  Parish.   However, the church was also obligated by law to keep a set 
  of CIVIL records.  These are most commonly found on the microfilms 
  and were written in the State languages of Polish before 1868 and 
  Russian Cyrillic after that.

  This applies ONLY to Russian Poland.  I assume that all records in 
  Prussian regions would be in German.



  Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
  FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca  



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