[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kreis Petrikau

[Nancy Gertner]

Karla -

I think Petrikau is where your people lived before they went to  
Volhynia.

Petrikau is now in Poland. I'd recommend you check shtetl seeker via  
the JewishGen website, but not sure if it's back up yet as the server  
was moved during Hurricane Rita.

LDS has a microfilm for Petrikau, but film description indicates its  
only for a 7 year period, and earlier than the years you specify.  I  
think the Lutherans that lived there must have attended church in a  
different town - perhaps even their events might be recorded in a  
Catholic church.

The following websites make some references to this place:

http://users.foxvalley.net/~goertz/faqpos.html

http://www3.adnc.com/~lynnd/gfaqi.html

http://www.territorial.de//ndschles/reichenb/petrikau.htm

http://www.territorial.de/staedte/staedtep.htm

http://hometown.aol.com/drhczaya/homepage/wprusver.htm

There are also numerous messages in the SGGEE archives that contain  
the word Petrikau, and this one from Bill might be helpful to you for  
search strategies to locate your ancestors:

http://www.sggee.org/pipermail/ger-poland-volhynia/2004-August/ 
003117.html

Nancy

On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:09 PM, karlann at juno.com wrote:

> I am trying to locate German Lutheran church records or civil  
> records for Kreis Petrikau for the period 1840-1875. I am not sure  
> where this region is. Is it in Volhynia or in what is now Poland? I  
> can find a Petrikau  in Volhynia north of Zhitomir and east of  
> Rovno. The family was living in Roszsischke parish by the 1880's.Is  
> there a region called Kreis Petrikau further east, in Poland or the  
> former East Prussia? Any leads would be much appreciated.
> Karla Walters
>