[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] House numbers still on homes in Poland

[Nancy Gertner]

When I visited Poland in 2005, I saw house numbers on homes in the  
former West Prussia, in the area southeast of Gdansk (Former  
Danzig).  Some of the homes were quite old, probably built in 1800s.

The house numbers recorded from the church records may make it  
possible to find the former residence of an ancestral family.  If the  
house number is included in the record, I'd recommend extracting it.

Nancy

On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Bill Fife wrote:

> All the church records I have viewed from Galicia have the house  
> number
> listed.  It does make it much easier to trace families as very  
> often one of
> the children eventually resides in the house when the parents pass  
> on.  It
> also makes it easier to trace the parents when the writing is bad  
> as the
> house number at birth is a good clue to the parents.
>
> Bill