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The region of Volhynia -- in German, Wolhynien -- is in the northwest corner of Ukraine, west of Kyiv. It borders Poland to the west and Belarus to the north. Volhynia was the name of an administrative district, called a gubernia, before the Russian Revolution. Major cities include Zhitomir, Rowno and Lutsk.

In the mid-1800s many Germans settled in Volhynia. This site will help you to research their ancestry.

The map above is from an atlas published in London in 1908 by the Harmsworth company.


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Old train station in Zhitomir, torn down many years ago



Societies dealing with Volhynia:

Society for German Genealogy in East Europe

SGGEE mailing list

Foundation for East European Family History Studies

American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

East European Genealogical Society

Germans from Russia Heritage Society

Mennonite Historical Society of B.C.

Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU

ODESSA online library




Websites in German:

Begegnung mit Wolhynien (Encounter with Volhynia)

Wolhynien (Volhynia)

Reise nach Wolhynien (Travel in Volhynia -- Youtube video)

Umsiedlermuseum-Wolhynien (Resettlement Museum Volhynia)



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Destination Canada
A Genealogical Guide to Immigration Records, by Dave Obee. This 160-page book is the most comprehensive guide ever written about resources for Canadian immigration research. It covers passenger lists and many other sources, including naturalization records and newspapers. This could be the most important book on Canadian genealogy this year. It includes six maps, 60 illustrations, more than 100 Internet links, and a comprehensive bibliography. Available directly from Dave Obee. C$30.00




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Web www.volhynia.com

Geography:

  • Volhynia geography

  • German villages
    in western Volhynia



    History:

  • Volhynia history timeline

  • Holocaust by Hunger
    Published by the Daily Mail

  • A 1933 look
    at conditions in Russia


  • Criminal Code sections
    in the Soviet Union



    Genealogy:

  • Volhynia research overview

  • Volhynia records timeline

  • Lutheran Church

  • Roman Catholic
    Metryki Wolyn - Lutsk and Lviv

  • Baptist pastors

  • Residents of some villages
    in the Zhitomir area


  • A brief account of a visit
    to Zhitomir, 1995



    Einwandererzentralstelle (EWZ):
    Migration records dealing with ethnic Germans in 1939-1945

  • How to use EWZ records

  • Sample EWZ-50 file (PDF format)
        For Hulda Bienert, born in Solodyri in 1891

  • E/G Kartei EWZ-57 (alphabetic) film numbers

  • EWZ-58 (numeric) film numbers

  • Polish EWZ-58 files online


    About this site:

    Volhynia.com is a personal project of Dave Obee, Victoria, B.C., Canada. It has been online since January 2006, although some of the material was on Dave's other sites in 1997.

    Dave has collected extensive information on the German Baptist colonies in the Neudorf area of Volhynia, in the Ukraine. His personal family tree includes names such as Weiss, Scheffler, Adam, Tiedtke, Reschke, Tiede, Menzel, Hartmann, Schindler, Kaufmann, and Boehnert. Villages include Iwanowitsch, Solodyri, Pulin, Neudorf, Florowka, Skolobow, Rogowka, and Wjasowitz; all are near Zhitomir.

    Dave's Volhynian ancestors went there in the 1860s. Before that, they lived in Albrechtsdorf, Pr. Eylau, in East Prussia (Ostpreussen); Nakel and Aniela in Posen; and Dabie and Drzewce, northwest of Lodz; and the Sadoles area northeast of Warsaw.

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