[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Surname HRYNJKE ?

[Günther Böhm]

Jerry Frank schrieb:
> It did not mean to suggest that Grinko was not a valid Russian 
> surname.  However, if the person in question (John does not say) were 
> of German ethnic heritage, then perhaps Gruenke (sometimes spelled 
> Grynke in Polish records) would be rendered as Гриньке on a Russian 
> passport.  When transliterated back into English, it could come out as 
> Hrynke.

Hello Jerry,
even the German spelling GRÜNKE may be found in the IGI earliest in 
Kashubian Pomerania and Poland but nowhere in western or central 
Germany. That's why it seems to be worth to direct the research for the 
name origin - if of interest - at least into both directions.

Günther