[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village of Drozna, Russia

[Jerry Frank]

The map referenced by Bill is a good one to use for comparision to a satellite image from GOOGLE Earth.

To see it on GOOGLE Earth in high definition, set the "Fly To" box to 50 54 N, 26 04 E.  After it settles at the location, you may have to zoom out just a bit.  The north/south street village of Anieluwka is just to the east of there.  At the south end, the road changes to northeast/southwest orientation and that is where Dombrowka used to be.  Note that the map shows houses on that road but the modern image shows none.  That road location has not changed in the last 100 years.


Jerry





----- Original Message -----
From: William Remus <remus at hawaii.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village of Drozna, Russia

> As Jerry points out....
> 
> "Drozna is almost certainly the town variously spelled as 
> Draschna, 
> Derazno, etc.
> 
> It is located approximately 32 km NNW of the city of Rowno (today 
> spelled Rivne), on the north bank of the Goryn / Horyn River.  I 
> don't think that any of our Germans lived right in this market 
> town.  They probably lived in a nearby village.  However, I am 
> basing 
> that info on pre-1885 church records. " 
> 
> If you go to 
> 
> http://www.shidler.hawaii.edu/remus/genes/volhynia/abvolhyn.htm
> 
> you will see an area map with your village in the lower left hand 
> corner. Click on the link below the map if you want a bigger and 
> better image.
> 
> Nearby were Anielioka and Berestovitz where you will find lots of 
> Germans that made it to Canada including the Schultz, Remus, 
> Haardwardt, plus most of old Leduc not to mention southern MB. 
> 
> Regards Bill Remus
> 
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