[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Bureau of Aryan Records; Pischle, Schmuland records in 'Odessa files' online

[Nancy Gertner]

Don:

IF the 'Aryan Records' information was requested during WWII era,  
it's possible you may find it in the 'EWZ Records.'

This is a microfilm collection held at the U.S. National Archives  
annex in College Park Maryland.

The EWZ records are written in German.

When I visited the annex a few years ago, I was able to find some  
records searching on my surnames.

After you find the name, you'll get the EWZ number, which is like:   
912  318

They you look at a different microfilm, and find that EWZ record for  
the papers on the applicant, which may include a photo about the size  
of a current driver's license photo.

The papers can show the applicant's birthdate, spouse, children,  
parents, grandparents.

The page labeled "Feststellung der Deutschstaemmigkeit" is the one  
that includes the grandparents.

Some of the boxes on this family tree page may be blank if the  
applicant did not know the names of all the ancestors of their spouse  
and self.

With Facebook as a tool, I have recently made contact with cousins in  
Germany descended from the siblings of my immigrant ancestor's 'left  
behind' relatives.
- - - -

The birth information of your ancestors may be in some records if the  
events were 1885 or earlier.

Have you tried looking in the 'Odessa Files?'

at this website:

http://www.odessa3.org/search.html

using the surnames as Query String

and select 'St. Petersburg' as Data Category.

(These are Lutheran Church records.)

There are some Schmuland birth records I find when using that  
criteria, but not with the parents you cite.

You may need to use wild cards in the search to check alternate  
spellings.

When I use Pischle for the query string, this is the only 'hit' I get:

For the query, pischle, of category St. Petersburg

File:  1,409,969  Volhynian Births, 1870-75 (M. Momose)

Schmuland, Emilie                        24 Dec 1868  
Gruenthal                 Gottfried                  Pischle ,  
Justine                 1884113/1 163    4

So you may need to use wild card searches here too; or perhaps the  
birth occurred outside the years covered by the data base.  (I think  
this is a record of a christening that occurred during years 1870-75,  
and the child was apparently born in 1868.)

Using Stebner, Heinrich, as the query string yields this search result:

For the query, stebner, heinrich, of category St. Petersburg

File:  535,164  Volhynian Marriages, 1880-85 (M. Momose)

Stebner, Heinrich                25 Jan 1882 Heimtal Parish    
Schnneland, Juliane                  1897596/1 974   14

[this indicates the person that did the record transcription, M.  
Momose, interpreted the name as SchNNEland instead of Schmuland.]   
1882 as year of marriage indicates the bride and groom were probably  
born before 1870.

IF you go and view the microfilm of this marriage record at you LDS  
Family History Center, you may find it contains additional info, like  
the names of parents, and birthplace of the groom and bride.

It's also possible that the families were not living in Volhynia at  
the times of the births of Heinrich and Juliane.  Emilie may have  
been the youngest child and the only one christened in Volhynia.

Nancy in Minnesota


On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:09 AM, doncarolea at aol.com wrote:

> My uncle, Otto Stebner, was born in Volhynia between 1893 and 1896
> somewhere near Zhytomir.   Otto wrote his  brother in Chicago  
> asking him if he knew
> the names and birth places of their  grandparents as this  
> information was
> being requested by the German Bureau of  Aryan records.  His  
> brother did not
> know but Otto must have found the  information somehow.  Does  
> anyone know if
> this information can be  accessed?
>
> I am really searching for the birth place of my grandfather, Heinrich
> Stebner, and the names and birth places of his parents. Also, the   
> birth place
> of my grandmother, Julianna Schmuland, and her parents, Gottfried   
> Schmuland
> and Justine Pischle.  These families were German Lutheran.
>
> Don Anderson
>