[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] baptists and lutherans

[Nelson Itterman]

I have my grandfather's marriage and the birth of some of his children in
the Lutheran records prior to his conversion to Baptist faith. Searches in
the Lutheran records may reveal some ancestors.
Nelson

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[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
Frank
Sent: March-04-08 10:59 AM
To: Dave Obee; Gary Gomes
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] baptists and lutherans


I've been away for a week so am just now catching up on this topic thread by
adding to Dave's comment.

Though he and others have had little success with finding their ancestors in
Lutheran records, others have.  There were those German Baptists who
migrated typically from the Lodz and Suwalki regions to the district north
of Pulin in Volhynia.  As Dave says, these people would almost never be
found in Lutheran records.

However, there were also those Baptists who converted from Lutheran in
Volhynia.  With such families you might find success in Lutheran records.
Suppose you great grandfather Gustav was born in 1873 and the family
converted in 1875.  Your knowledge of the family indicates the family was
always Baptist when in fact Gustav's birth and infant baptism would be
recorded in the Lutheran Church.  Similarly, one branch of the family may
have converted while another didn't.  If you have enough details, you may be
able to make the association and use Lutheran records to track back the
other branch of the family.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca




At 10:34 PM 26/02/2008, Dave Obee wrote:
>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
>


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