[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village lists from western Volhynia (was Surname Translation)

[Paul Rakow]

    Hello Again All,

       I have had a longer look at this Polish Volhynia site,
  http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/opisy.htm

       It looks like a project collecting village lists from the
  memories of former inhabitants, which is why there is quite
  a variation in the length of the lists, with a lot of villages
  missing completely, some with only a few families listed, and others
  with very complete lists, maps of who lived in which house, etc.

       The people whose e-mail addresses are given on the Berestowiec
  page only know about families 102 and 145. The site owner isn't sure
  where the original Berestowiec list came from.

     The abbreviation I.N. after some of the names just stands for
  "first name not known"

       If you have seen someone on the list who you want to find more
  about, I would suggest looking for them in the EWZ files. Most
  German families from this region were moved out of the Soviet-occupied
  parts of Poland into the German-occupied parts of Poland in early 1940,
  and they had to fill in detailed forms for the authorities.

         Hope this clears up some of the questions.

             Paul Rakow
             Liverpool

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  Paul Rakow <paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de> wrote: 
>
>  Hello Eveline,
>
>      Thanks for telling us about this site!
>
>      This looks like a very interesting list of farmers and others
>  in Polish Volhynia around 1939. Most names are Polish, because
>  of course most people living there were Polish, but I have just had
>  a look at a village (Berestowiec) where I know there were a lot of
>  German families, they are listed too,
>
>      For an example page from a mostly German village, look at
>  http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/berestowiec-03.html
>
>     Wykaz Gospodarstw is a list of about 150 farmers, 80 or 90%
>  have German surnames. I haven't yet found what the original
>  source is - can anyone figure it out? Possibly an address
>  book from the pre-war years?
>
>        I'm now going to try some more villages.
>
>           Have fun everybody,
>
>               Paul Rakow
>               rakow at ifh.de
>