[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Flatt Family

[Jerry Frank]

Pathen = godparents

Go to http://www.sggee.org/research/PublicDatabases - the first section.  When you open either birth, marriage, death you will see a box titled "Good News".  Follow instructions there for viewing original records.  In your case, after finding Volyn, click on through on Lutsk.

In the search part of the above page, search for Flatt and Flath.


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Stacy Flatt <stacylm at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Flatt Family
To: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> Thanks for your help!
> 
> I still have some questions.  I think the biggest problem 
> is I'm not quite
> sure how to use the resources on the website.
> 
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Jerry Frank 
> <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Cannot help directly but here are some additional clues / 
> points to
> > consider.
> >
> > 1.  I have looked at the original birth record for 
> Lydia.  A Rapp was one
> > of the Pathen.  Viewing baptisms before and after
> 
> 
> What does "Pathen" mean?
> 
> 
> > confirms that the location is written as either Marinkow or 
> Marienkow.> Going to other records before and after, it is clear 
> that we are dealing
> > with the region south and southwest of Dorosin.  There 
> are no Marienkow in
> > our database of villages so I am convinced that this is likely 
> to be what we
> > show as Marjanowka, about 4 or 5 km south of Dorosin.  
> Looking generally for
> > Flatt in Volhynia, we find one such family living at Bresalup 
> / Presalup =
> > Berezolupy located only 2 km SE of this Marjanowka.  The 
> connection seems
> > logical.
> >
> 
> Where are you searching to find this?
> 
> 
> >
> > 2.  If you haven't already done so, be sure to consider 
> Flath as an
> > alternate spelling.  That shows another entry for the 
> same family at
> > Presalup including the birth of a Pauline in 1868 and marriage 
> of a Carl in
> > 1882.  Also shows another Flath family in Presalup as well.
> >
> 
> That sounds promising, and Flath is talked about as a family 
> legend, "our
> name changed at Ellis Island" sort of thing.  I don't have 
> dates for the
> siblings, but they are close enough I want to investigate 
> further.  Where do
> you find this information?
> 
> 
> >
> > 3.  I would ignore (or at least not take too seriously) 
> the reference to
> > Adolph's marriage in Schwerin.  That info somehow got 
> into the date column
> > for the marriage and the location is highly unlikely given 
> their residence
> > in Volhynia.
> >
> 
> I heard that Adolph and Lydia went to Germany for 2 years before 
> coming to
> the states so it didn't seem outlandish - however, I'm not 
> taking it as fact
> until I can confirm.  I've started looking for records in 
> that region in
> Germany to try and confirm if that marriage did take place there 
> and if so,
> when.
> 
> 
> >
> > 4.  Have you tried contacting the submitter of that 
> marriage info to see if
> > more information is available?
> >
> 
> Yes, we have been in touch.  :)
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Jerry Frank
> > Calgary, AB
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> Stacy
> 
> 
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