[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Hildebrandt family name

[Jerry Frank]

You are of course correct, Klaus.  My brain was rather muddled this morning.

Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Klaus-Guenter Leiss <LeissKG at web.de>
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:50 am
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Hildebrandt family name
To: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>, ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> Am 25 Aug 2008 um 8:54 hat Jerry Frank geschrieben:
> 
> <snip>
> > If you browse around our website enough, you will find clues 
> about the what
> > and where of Volhynia.  We had a full hour session on it at 
> our convention
> > a couple of weekends ago.  Very simply, Volhynia was a 
> province in the
> > Polish / Lithuanian empire prior to the partitions of the late 
> 1700s. > After that, it was a province (sometimes referred to as 
> Gubernia) in Russia
> > until WW I.  From 1921 through WW II, it was split in half 
> with the east
> > being in Poland and the west in Russia.  That probably 
> explains why your
> > father states he was born in Poland.  After WW II, it ceased 
> to exist,
> > being split into 3 districts in Ukraine consisting of Wolhyn, 
> Rivne, and
> > Zhitomir.  Wolhynien is the German spelling.
> > 
> I think it was west in poland and east in russia
> 
> Klaus Leiss
> 
> <snip>
> 
>