[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Gerlinski

[Carolyn Schott]

Jan,

Try the "KET" (Kherson/Ekaterinoslaw/Taurien) Regional Interest Group at
GRHS - see http://grhs.org/rig/ket/html/about_us.html. I don't think we have
too much info online for this area, but if you click on the "Contact Us"
you'll get email addresses for a couple of people (Tim Janzen and Deb Beick)
who know a lot about researching in this area. If you contact them, I'll bet
they can give you some good clues.

Also, when I search in the Genealogy Database at GRHS
http://www.grhs.org/genealogy.htm for Gerlinski/sky/skij, I get about 13
hits, all in the EWZ-50 records. I don't see Alfred or Jacob, which makes
sense since they would already have been in Canada when those EWZ forms
would have been filled out (about 1944). But there could be some relatives
or connections in there. The locations that come up for those
Gerlinski/sky/skij are Eichenwald, Ordshonikidse, Gottland, Karan/Karein and
a handful of other locations.

The Odessa site also has some Mariupol St. Pete records, but they're back in
the 1830s, so may be too early for you to make a connection.
http://www.odessa3.org/collections/stpete/mariupol/

Carolyn Schott



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>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:03:36 -0700
>From: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
>Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ukranian immigrants calling
>	themselves Russian
>To: Jan Hemmings <janhemmings at earthlink.net>
>Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
>Message-ID: <4B303708.5040705 at shaw.ca>
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>Jan,
>
>You have already received some advice pinpointing the 
>locations.  There is no issue regarding Ukraine vs. Russia as 
>this region was under Russian rule prior to WW I and under 
>Soviet rule after.
>
>This region is not generally covered by our Society but there 
>are probably readers on this list who can point you to more 
>fruitful resources.  For example, someone else has done some 
>research on another branch of this family with the listing at 
>http://www.ahsgr.org/gedlist/Geor-Getz.htm .  You could try 
>writing to AHSGR to see if they would give you the name of 
>that researcher.
>
>Though that info is with AHSGR, the region is covered in more 
>detail by GRHS - see http://www.grhs.org .
>
>Though the name may sound Slavic, it could still very well be German.  
>Many Slavic sounding surnames - such as Girschewski, Kowalski, 
>etc. - are used by Germans.  Some are derivations like 
>Gershewski from Gersch while others are translations like 
>Kowalski from Schmidt. 
>
>Was the family Catholic?  I do not see the name in Lutheran 
>records from that region.
>
>
>Jerry Frank
>Calgary, AB
>
>
>
>Jan Hemmings wrote:
>> I may be totally looking the wrong place by asking your 
>group, but I am
>> looking for information for my stepfather, Alfred Gerlinsky, whose
>> grandfather, Jacob Gerlinsky (or then sonetimes, Gerlinski), 
>immigrated to
>> Canda, to Saskatchewan. He arrived in Montreal in 1904, and 
>settled in
>> Saskatchewan by 1905, with his wife Barbara and several 
>children, Matilda,
>> Martin, Valentin....
>>
>> Jacob said in the census that they were all born in
>> Russia, but Alfred says, Ekatarinslav, Mariopol. All I can 
>find is Mariupol
>> in the Ukraine, and of course, Gerlinsky is a Slavic name. 
>Is there any way
>> of finding anything more about this family before they went 
>to Canada?
>> Thanks,
>> Jan Hemmings
>>
>>