[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Family BRACHMANN from Dombrowa and Romanow / Volhynia

[joepessarra]

I appreciate the supporting messages.  We had only a photo of a small village in Bavaria, with German writing on the back that said, “The town of Utzenhofen near Amberg, the post of which comes through Kastl, where Theresa Beer spent her childhood.”   Theresa was my grandmother.   A letter was written to the postmaster in Kastl, asking if there were any people still living in the area by the name of Beer or Schuster (my grandfather’s name).  The postmaster sent the letter to the postmaster in Kastl.  He had been postmaster there for many years.  But, he could not read English.  A neighbor transcribed it for him, and he said, “Yes, there are families still living here with those names.  My mother was a Beer, and there is a Schuster descendant a block away!”  The postmaster was my cousin, and so was the Schuster descendant.  My wife and I have spent many days on numerous trips there to visit with those families.  We had the same results with both of my other grandparents families, Pessarra and Conrady.  With letters in the past year to families in South Africa, we have located some of my wife’s distant relatives.

 

So, good luck to all of you on your contacts.  Don’t give up.  You will get some results.

 

Joe in Texas

 

From: tomjess64 at comcast.net [mailto:tomjess64 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:20 PM
To: Greg Mason
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org; Joseph Pessarra
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Family BRACHMANN from Dombrowa and Romanow / Volhynia

 

It worked for me also. I started calling Rode's in Hamburg and on my 3rd call, found a relative, Harry Rode. His father, who passed away in 1969, had done a lot of family research and he sent me all the information. It easily doubled the information I allready had. I'm looking forward to meeting Harry hopefully this year or next.

I tried the same technique for other branches, family names, but was unsuccessful, however, everyone I talked to was very friendly and understood the desire to find lost relatives.

 

Tom Jess

 

 

 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Mason" <gmason001 at comcast.net>
To: "Joseph Pessarra" <joepessarra at suddenlink.net>
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 9:59:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Family BRACHMANN from Dombrowa and Romanow /        Volhynia

Joe and others on the list:  I used this technique that Joe describes some years ago to locate my wife's second cousin.  I sent 26 letters to people with the same surname listed in the Deutsche Post directory for a particular town.  Within three weeks we received a letter from the cousin (who now has a married surname, different from the names to whom we sent the letters) and the contact has since developed into a wonderful friendship between my wife and her cousin.  So, even though it may seam like a stretch, its worth a shot.  Greg Mason
On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Joseph Pessarra wrote:

> Believe the name of the town is Friedland.  Germany telephone directory at
> http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/  has one Brachmann listed for Friedland,
> Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
> 
> Heinrich Brachmann, 17098 Friedland, phone 039601-2-00-63.
> 
> There are 7 listings of Brachmann within about 60 km (36 miles) of
> Friedland.
> 
> Maybe some letters to these people would get you some answers for your
> search.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Joe in Texas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
> [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of David
> Brackman
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 6:42 PM
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Family BRACHMANN from Dombrowa and Romanow /
> Volhynia
> 
> Hello, My Grandfather was born in 1880 in Freidland Mecklenburg, his name
> was Erich Brachmann.  he came to Canada ( Calgary, Alberta) around
> 1900.Shortly after he arrived he changed his name to Brackman to make it
> less German sounding! He married Julia Schneider and had 5 children, he died
> in 1919.  we know he had a sister but that is all, she never came to Canada.
> Perhaps there is some relation there.
> 
> Happy new  Year and best regards
> 
> David Brackman
> Vancouver, Canada 
> 
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