[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Gerhard Sell

[Dave Obee]

Do you have a time frame for his likely arrival in Canada?

What are the Pier One records?

Have you looked in EWZ to fill in some of the gaps?

Do these Sells tie in to the Sells in the Solodyri area, a few villages to the east of Kremjanka?

Dave Obee

----- Original Message -----
From: F&RM Haddad <farose at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 14:05
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Gerhard Sell
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> 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 
> pleaseadvise 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
> 
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