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

[Helen Gillespie]

Hi All,

Some years ago Heinrich Bettig - who lived in Bramsche, in northern Germany, wrote about his visit to his home village - Berestowiec in the summer of 1987.  He drew a map of the village and identified all the homes of the residents and wrote of his tour. It was published in some German journal.  I have a copy of his typed letter and the map. Looking at the list of names on this website and the names on the map, it would appear to be the source.

Heinrich Bettig was a relative of John Bettig, who lives in the Benton Harbor area - a Baptist minister who travels to the Ukraine from time to time.  I think my Mom said that John's father and Heinrich's
 father were cousins.

Many of the names show up on Bill Remus's gedcom 
http://remus.shidler.hawaii.edu/genes/Volhynia/adeutschlander.htm
  
My Mom knew both John and Heinrich Bettig and also a Paul Bettig and his wife Hildegard who lived in St. Joseph MI. (John's brother) Paul Bettig's family lived in Gonaschriche/Goncharykha  (sp. varies!). I had asked my Mom to contact Paul Bettig for a list of residents of the Goncharykha village (next to Solomka/Nakoty and Szredne) only a few miles distant and I have a brief list  of about 25 names if anyone has connections to this village.  Am not sure of the spellings though.  There were more Ukrainians in this village.


Helen

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--- On Mon, 5/28/12, Paul Rakow <paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de> wrote:

From: Paul Rakow <paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Village lists from western Volhynia (was Surname Translation)
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Date: Monday, May 28, 2012, 7:15 PM


    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

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

  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
>
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