[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] looking for families Stelter and Dreusner

[Gary Warner]

Gil,

Both you, your parents, and your grandfather Ludwig Stelter are already 
in the Master Pedigree Database, courtesy of James and Sandra Stelter- 
member S109 (James is also a grandson of Ludwig).   You will want to 
contact them if you have not already done so.

Gary Warner
SGGEE


Gilbert A Stelter wrote:
> Hello all;
> I joined this group a few days ago and have been impressed by the quality of the research many of you are doing.
>
> My name is Gilbert (Gil) Stelter and I'm a retired University Professor of History (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. My wife and I are planning to go to Volhynia next September.
>
> Both sides of my family are Germans from Volhynia. My grandfather, Ludwig Stelter, was born in Radwanky(a), Poland in 1855 and migrated to Vladimir-Volensk (near the Polish border) in 1867 with his parents, married Amalia Demm. of similar background, in 1880. They had two daughters, them migrated to Winnipeg in 1867. They must have had contact, or been members of the Moravian Brethern in Poland and Volhynia, because when they eventually ended up in Southern Alberta, they contacted the Moravian communities
> around Edmonton, in particular, Bruederheim, and eventually moved up there.
>
> Those Moravian communities such as Bruederheim, had been founded by Moravians from Volyhnia in 1894,led by Andreas Lilge, but I have not found any information about where in Volyhnia they came from in the official history of that congregation. Does anyone in this group have more info?  
>
> My mother's family name was Dreusner ( my email will not allow me to write a u and unlaut)and called themselves Driesner in Canada. They lived in some of the 200 some German settlements just to the north of Zhitomer, about 60 miles west of Kiev. I have the names of the communities involved there and will be visiting them with Donald Miller, whom some of you know, next September.
> But its the Moravian connection I'm looking for at this point.
> Regards,
>
> Gil Stelter                
>
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