[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for Shiva, Poland

[Jerry Frank]

It may be that the place name is too badly botched to derive any kind of accurate equivalent.  

There is evidence of an Endler family being in the Kiev Parish as early as 1869 but this is neither Poland nor Volhynia.  I cannot find any good match in Ukraine regions (western Volhynia was part of Poland in 1927 so I thought I would check there).  In Poland there is only one reasonable possible match - Zywa Woda which is located in the far northeast corner of Poland, a short distance north of Suwalki.  

Have you found a passenger ship record that might help to clarify the location name?

The majority of Endlers in our databases lived in the Chelm region of SE Poland.  You can search those specific families here - http://www.sggee.org/research/parishes/lublin_records/lublinsearchinstruct.html 


Jerry



Jerry





----- Original Message -----
From: rhloeb4 at mymts.net
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 8:51 pm
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for Shiva, Poland
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

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> My grandfather, Wilhelm Endler, was immigrating to Canada from 
> Volhynia in 1927. He was asked by the Canadian Immigration 
> Service officers where he was born. He stated he was born in 
> Shiva, Poland in 1894. I know that the spelling is that of a 
> Canadian official and that Poland then is not Poland now, but I 
> have had no luck in finding any village that might be the one 
> where he was born. Can anyone help to point me in the right direction?
> Randy
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