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

[Gary Warner]

To all,

My grandfather's Russian passport shows an 1893 stamp for the German 
Consulate in Odessa.  He was living just west of Zhitomir at the time.

Gary Warner.

On 4/19/2016 8:35 PM, 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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