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

[roseingram at shaw.ca]

Randy

Another option is to look at the Canadian 1940 National Registration  if your Wilhelm Endler was still alive then and living in Canada.  Information about this can be found on http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-911.007-e.html

It can be costly at $45 plus taxes for each person's questionaire, but contains good information, if it was completed properly.  The birth place may be written more clearly on the questionaire as it would have been completed by Wilhelm himself or someone in his family.   When completing your request letter, I would suggest just noting Poland as place of birth. 

Rose Ingram
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Warner 
  Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org ; rhloeb4 at mymts.net 
  Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:04 PM
  Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Looking for Shiva, Poland


  Most of the Endler names we have in the MPD are from the Chelm area of 
  Poland.

  Rather than concentrating on a place name which is likely corrupted, 
  please give us more data on names and relationships.   For instance, who 
  were Wilhelm Engler's parents or siblings?

  Gary Warner

  On 8/9/2012 8:02 AM, Jerry Frank wrote:
  > It may be that the place name is too badly botched to derive any kind of accurate equivalent.
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  > 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.
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  > Have you found a passenger ship record that might help to clarify the location name?
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  > 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
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  > ----- 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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