[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Flatts in Mariankowa

[E. Austermann]

Stacy,
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> I wonder if the place that you are looking for is the  Marinkow colony adjoining  Beresk in Volhynia  that  was once in  Russian Poland, but now part of  the Ukraine.  My great grandparents, Caroline Ristau and Michael Matschinske  with his younger  brother Adolf migrated  there from Pomerania  and Poland in the 1850s or 60s.  The family  (with a few exceptions) lived  in Russia  for only one generation.  Most of Michael and Adolf's children, along with  cousins and and friends, migrated to North America in the late nineteenth century.  Adolf's descendants live now  mostly in Michigan,  but some of Michael's children came to  California. The Michigan cousins spell the name Matchinski, in California it is Matchinske, and older records suggest that at one time in Pomerania it was Maczinski.
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> There are numerous Flatts and the other names that you have listed (Schmidt, Seib, Matschinske) on the SGGEE Master Pedigree Database, as well as good maps of the area.  Marinkow was the  German  name for  the Lutheran  colony, but there are  other spellings.  Marinkow was part of  Rosyszcze parish, and Beresk is located  between the cities of  Luck (Lutsk) and Pinsk in the Ukraine
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> Hope this helps
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> Genie
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