[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] What was the German Embassy for Volhynia?
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DLPratt123 at aol.com
Sun Apr 24 12:14:30 PDT 2016
A Rozyszcze marriage record from 1909 references the German Consulate in
Kiev. The bride was from Germany (Lichtenberg).
Dan Pratt
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:34:45 -0700
From: Gary Warner <garyw555 at gmail.com>
To: Mauricio Norenberg <mauricio.norenberg at gmail.com>, GPV List
<ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] What was the German Embassy for
Volhynia?
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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.
>
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