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

[Mauricio Norenberg]

Hi Dan

Quite curious to see this record if you wouldn't mind sharing?

Regards

On 25 April 2016 at 07:14, <DLPratt123 at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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