Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Searchig for "Scherfer" or " Schärfer "

[Richard Stein]

Hi Reiner,

I can try to answer your questions.  Probably other people on the list will 
be able to add further answers.
1.  In the Polish records, the names of Germans were often recorded as their 
Polish equivalents.  It appears that the Polish name Oztrzynski may have the 
same meaning as the German name Scherfer.  So you will have to be on the 
lookout for both forms.

2. The family search site is still there.  Browse the locations to find 
Russia, and then Russian Lutheran records.  These are images of the Lutheran 
records held in St. Petersburg Archive.  They do not include Lutherans in 
Poland.

3.  The St. Petersburg Archive records have been indexed and appear on the 
Odessa site.  You are right in that some years are missing and they cover 
only until the end of 1885.

4.  I can't help you with Julius Scherfer.

A quick look at SGGEE databases yields only a few Scherfer / Schaefer names 
around Lodz, Poland, and a few names from the 1880's in Rozyszcze parish in 
Volhynia.

I hope this helps a little.

Dick Stein
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reiner Miericke" <reiner at miericke.net>
To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:29 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Searchig for "Scherfer" or " Schärfer "


Hello

since I am new to this mailing list (and to genealogy as well) I hopefully 
am
allowed to ask some stupid questions:

1: scanning the mail archive I only found oone mail concerning
family "Scherfer" (Uta Härtling, may 2005). She lists the family names for
Glombie near Lodz.

...
Hekiendorf (= Eichendorff?), Johann & Marianna Oztrzenska (= Scherfer?)
...
Oztrzynski (= Scherfer?), Christian & Anna Rosa Frank
Oztrzynski (= Scherfer?), Carl & Rosalia Krankowska
...

   Does this mean that some famlies have two different names at the same 
time?


2. There is some hint to a "Pilot Project"
           http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/#start
   where I can get the original images to parish registers.
   Did this page vanish?

3. I read that all registers for volhynia are availabe through ODESSA.
   But this seems not to be the case since there are huge gaps in the
   list of availabe year (the each decade). Did I misunderstand something?

4. My first step will be to find some information about a persone named
      Julius Scherfer
   which was born in Galowek about 1830-1850. Is there a way get the images 
of
the according registers? Or do you advice me some other approach?

Thanks in advance!


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