[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] baptists and lutherans

[George Shoning]

I am in a similar situation as Dave Obee.  My family and ancestors were Baptists.  The only records I have found were from the 1930s; these records were in ZAGS (Notary and Vital Records Offices) in Volodarsk-Volynskiy.  I was allowed only to see the records in ZAGS but was not able to get copies.  Does anyone know if Baptists recorded their vital events in some kind of civil records during the 1850s-1920s?  If so, do you have any suggestions of how one might get copies?
 
George Shoning

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:34:38 -0800> From: daveobee at shaw.ca> To: ggomes at soundviewnet.com> CC: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] baptists and lutherans> > You will find an> occasional entry for a Baptist in the Lutheran records, but only if the> Baptists involved chose to go to the Lutheran church at that time, for> whatever reason. So far, in my extended Baptist family in Volhynia, I> have found precisely one reference in the St. Petersburg Lutheran> records.> > The Lutherans were not keeping track of the Baptists> any more than the Baptists were keeping track of the Lutherans. And> since you are not likely to find births in Baptist records, it would be> strange indeed for the Baptists to register births with the Lutherans.> The Baptists in Volhynia were devout, and not likely to toss away their> beliefs on a whim.> > There is some confusion about this. Even the> people at the Zhitomir archives have assured me with a straight face> that the Baptists are found in the Lutheran records. And I assured them> right back that they were wrong.> > Dave Obee> > > > _______________________________________________> Ger-Poland-Volhynia Mailing List hosted by> Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe http://www.sggee.org> Mailing list info at http://www.sggee.org/listserv