[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town

[Jerry Frank]

A map of German settlements in Bessarabia can be found at 
www.scholtoi.de/PDF/DeutscheBessarabien.pdf  .  It is a pdf file so 
it can be printed out but it might be difficult to read the place 
names.  Better to enlarge it on screen for readability.

While the majority of German settlements were in the south as Carolyn 
states, there were some in the northern region as well.  Significant 
numbers of northern German Bessarabians travelled to Podolia so they 
could be married by a Lutheran pastor there rather than waiting for 
one to travel up from the south.

Most of the southern settlements remain in Ukraine but a large number 
to the north (very roughly north of the 46 deg 30 min parallel) and 
to the west (29 deg) are today in the country of Moldova.



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca





At 02:03 PM 09/09/2007, Carolyn Schott wrote:
>Alt Posttal was a German village in Bessarabia, which is in an area now part
>of Ukraine. GRHS www.grhs.org has lots of information about Bessarabia
>http://www.grhs.org/rig/bess/frame2.htm.
>
>Hmm, we don't seem to have a map online, but Adelheid, I'll send you one via
>attachment (as I know it can't go to the list). Basically Bessarabia, at
>least the part with German settlements, is that little portion of Ukraine
>that is southwest of Odessa along the Black Sea. Lots of Germans migrated
>from Poland to Bessarabia.
>
>If you give me some time period on your Catharina, I can probably point you
>to some more specific data.
>
>Carolyn
>
> >
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 12:30:25 -0700
> >From: "Adelheid Bender" <asbender at telus.net>
> >Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town
> >To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> >Message-ID: <000e01c7f24e$b52b6780$4001a8c0 at Bender>
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> >I have an ancester Catharina Friederika Schmidt whose place of
> >death is listed as Alt Postal, Bessarabia.
> >
> >Does anyone know where that is?
> >Adelheid Bender
> >
> >
>