[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] House numbers

[Annegret Krause]

In Germany, in the region where I live, it was usual to have house
numbers which were corresponding to the sequenz of farm foundation. The
oldest farm or property had the number 1, the second the number 2 and so
on. 
In my village we got names for the streets during the sixties or
seventies and the old system of house numbers disappeared. 

Annegret

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[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of
Günther Böhm
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:45 AM
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] House numbers

Bill Fife schrieb:

>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,
supposedly it was an all-Austrian regulation to use house numbers (both 
Galicia and Bohemia were parts of the Austrian Empire).

Guenther


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