[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town

[Carolyn Schott]

Thanks for the tip on the online map of Bessarabia - this is great!

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>Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:56:45 -0600
>From: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
>Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Name of town
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
>FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
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>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.
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>>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.
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>>If you give me some time period on your Catharina, I can 
>probably point 
>>you to some more specific data.
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>>Carolyn
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>> >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
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>> >I have an ancester Catharina Friederika Schmidt whose place 
>of death 
>> >is listed as Alt Postal, Bessarabia.
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>> >Does anyone know where that is?
>> >Adelheid Bender
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