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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.
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)
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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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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