[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Gerhard Sell

[F&RM Haddad]

I have a "mystery relative" by the name of Gerhard Sell. He would be a
great-uncle of mine.

Background: My grandmother, Olga Sell, was the middle of 3 children. Her
younger brother died young; her older brother (born before 1885 in Volhynia)
Rinehard, married and lived in Kremianke. (his name in on the 1915
deportation lists) He and his wife had a son, Gerhard. Rinehard died as a
young man; his wife remarried - I don't know her name nor the name of the
man she married, except that I believe he was a widower. Rinehard's widow
also died young, and Gerhard was brought up in his step-father's home. This
is all family lore.

Family lore also has it that Gerhard later emigrated to Canada -
specifically southern Alberta. I've not found any record of him through the
Pier One records, nor in any census that I have found. Could you please
advise me (privately is fine) where to look for any possible information on
him. There is a town near Calgary that has a lot of "Sell's" in it. But it
also seems strange that if he lived in Southern Alberta, and Olga Sell, my
grandmother, lived in Edmonton Alberta, that there was evidently no contact
between them. I would still like to find out about him and any of his
descendants - as would my aunts and uncles who would be his cousins.

Is a puzzlement.

Rose-Marie Haddad