[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] What was the German Embassy for Volhynia? - PS

[Paul Rakow]

 Dear All,

      One correction - if you want to read the whole of my ancestor's
 letter, it is the September 2007 issue of the Journal, (not 2013).

           Paul Rakow

On Wed, April 20, 2016 10:44, Paul Rakow wrote:
>

> Hello Mauricio,
>
>
> There's a letter written by my great-great grandfather,
> he talks about making a trip in 1865 to the Prussian consul in Akkerman on
> the Black Sea, to get a "Schutzschein" confirming that he was still a
> Prussian citizen. The whole letter is in the
> Sept 2013 issue of the SGGEE journal.
>
>
> Akkerman is now Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky. I don't know if there
> are any consular records surviving - and if there are, whether they are in
> Germany, or in Ukraine.
>
>
> Paul Rakow
>
>
> On Wed, April 20, 2016 04:35, Mauricio Norenberg wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>>
>>
>> I would imagine that a few or many Germans who wanted to maintain a
>> connection to Germany would contact\report to a nearby German Embassy or
>>  Consulate.
>>
>>
>>
>> After the unification in 1870, all Germans living outside Germany were
>> required to register (Matrikel) to their conuslate\embassy every 10
>> years in order to maintain their citizenhip and I'm sure many of them,
>> aware of the law, would have done so.
>>
>> Many embassies keep an archive of their Matrikel to this day, at least
>> this is true for the German Embassy in Brazil which can do lookups on
>> these archives. This could be a good source of genealogical
>> information.
>>
>> For the specific settlers in Volhynia, what was their "official"
>> Embassy?
>> Kiev? Moscow? A Polish one?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd like to know more specifically between 1870 and 1913 but I can't
>> find any information about that.
>>
>> Regards
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