Galizien German Descendants Newsletter 1998-2000
A publication dedicated to family history research of the German
descendants from the Austrian province of Galicia
We welcome all to become members. However you may send us your
surnames and villages for inclusion in our newsletter without
membership. We started in October 1994 with two members, and had
almost one hundred members in early April 1996. Our group shares
research and assists one another with search problems. We have
begun translating articles from German into English and are
printing them in our newsletters.
Betty Wray, Newsletter Editor, Secretary
2035 Dorsch Road
Walnut Creek, California 94598-1126
Telephone: (925) 944-9875
eMail: wraybet@pacbell.net
Galizien German Descendants Website
Published Quarterly: January, April, July, October
Subscription cost: US and Canadian addresses: US$15.00 per
year
Subscription cost: Canada and overseas US$18.00 per year
If anyone is interested in any of our articles or the entire
newsletter, contact Betty Wray at her address above.
Table of Contents:
Past Issues of the Galizien German Descendants
Newsletter
GGD Newsletter #13 January 1998
Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II. in Galizien by Ludwig
Schneider - Chapter I - Introduction --
Chapter II Galicia until 1772 (LDS microfilm #1256477)
translated by Leona Rosenmeier ... pages 1-7
Success Story by Beth Schmalenberg: Obtaining Records from the
Zabuzanski Collection - Beth Schmalenberg
The Records List of Evangelical Parishes in the Former East
Galicia Villages in District of Wlodzimierz / Wladimir ...page
7
Steinau - Surnames Found in the Village - by Dolores Schick - A
Steinauer Family History - by Gunter Kunke -
submitted and translated by Dolores Schick "Ortsplan von
Steinau" + (map showing house locations) pages 8-13
Nobility in Your Tree - by Felix G. Game ... pages 13-15
Tid Bits / Fun (Redneck Family Tree, Dear Santa poem, Freedom of
Infomation/Privacy Act) ... pages 15-16
Internet and E-mail Sites of Interest ... pages 16-17
News from Other Genealogical Societies ... page 17
Jewish Corner (Jewish Annual Seminar to be held July 12-17, 1998,
Los Angeles) ... pages 17-18
Books, Articles, Microfilms, etc. of Interest ... pages 18-19
Sharing Our Heritage - and Village Coordinators - additions /
corrections ... pages 19-20
Codes / Members' Addresses as of January 1998
Letter to Galizien German Descendants Members Only New position
of Librarian; Galizien Research Guide
(FEEFHS Convention Salt Lake City, September 1997)
Published by Galizien German Descendants, a member of FEEFHS
(Federation of
East European Family History Societies) Betty Wray, Newsletter
Editor/Secretary, 2035 Dorsch Road, Walnut
Creek, CA 94598-1126
email: WrayBJ@pacbell.net
President, Steven Stroud, 653 Douglas Avenue, Elgin Illinois
60120 -
email: SSTROUD653@aol.com
Published quarterly: January, April, July, October (Cost
US$15.00/yr subscription for US & Canada; overseas
US$18.00)
Homepage URL courtesy of FEEFHS is: http://feefhs.org - scroll
down to find Galizien German Descendants
or go directly to Galizien German Descendants WWW Homepage URL:
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GGD Newsletter #14 April 1998
Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II. in Galizien by Ludwig
Schneider - translated by Leona
Rosenmeier
Chapter III - Galicia Under Austria (Emperor Josef II's First
Tour of Galicia, The Settlement Clusters
Chapter IV - Organization of the Settlement Work
1. The Central Office
2. Administration & Technical Transactions
Letter and comments from Dr. Edward Brandt on Schneider and other
topics
Some Galizien Families in the Bukovina - Irmgard Ellingson
Visiting My Ancestral Home (Einseidel, Falkenstein and Rosenberg)
map & photos - by Gary Bergthold
"Nothing is Hopeless" and "The Austrian Census for Galicia"
(Census Records in Galicia) by Gayle S.
Riley
Genealogical Abbreviations and Symbols
Austrian Military Records
Resettlement Films - Steven Stroud
Internet & E-Mail Info
Tid Bits/Fun
Books of Interest
Searching Goeres and Friedhofer Family
Researchers in Galicia (seeking clients)
News from Other Genealogical Societies - Upcoming Convention
(Cincinnati, Ohio 19-22 Aug.)
Sharing Our Heritage (additions/corrections to database)
Addresses of Members and Submitters (additions/corrections)
New IGI availabale. Data includes entries up to and including
February 1997.
Zeitweiser Index (Index of all articles contained in the
Zeitweiser books published by Hilfskomitees der
Galiziendeutschen, Theodor-Veiel Str. 55, 70374 Stuttgart,
Germany) Part I of 4. - Codes match up with
members D1 - Dolores Duy; L4 - Brian Lenius; W1 - Evelyn Wolfer;
& W5 - Betty Wray
GGD Newsletter # 15 - July 1998
Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II. in Galizien by Ludwig
Schneider - (LDS microfilm 1256477)
Chapter V - Principles of the Founding, Chapter VI - Recruitment
of the Colonists translated by Leona
Rosenmeier
My Hometown of Neu-Kalusch and Map by Karl
Strömich/Stroemich (from 1989 Zeitweiser)
translated by R. Delwo
Where Have All the Ladies Gone? - by Robert W. Marlin
(Originally published in Family Chronicle
Nov/Dec 97)
Abschriften der im Galiziendeutschen Heimatarachiv befinden
Einwohnen - Listen deutscher - Siedlungen
in Galizien by Ernest Hexel, January 1974 "Abstracts of the
residences found in the "Homeland
Archives" of Galician Germans - Lists of German Settlements in
Galicia" - review of LDS film 127006 by Betty
Wray
Success Story by Jean McNally
Success Story for Lynn Baumel and Edna Walker
Progress Report on the Indexing of the Resettlement Films - Steve
Stroud
Some Other Sources:
1. Deaths of Soldiers of WW I.
2. US Selective Service System.
3. NARA & INS info
16-18 Internet and E-mail Sites of Interest
Country of Bukovina
News from Other Genealogical Societies -
1. Salt Lake City FHL Source Guide
2. Records from the Polish State Archives
3. FEEFHS - Re: Ahnenstammkartei Indexing Project Progress
Report - Part of Film 1981704 (first indexing)
Now posted on the FEEFHS website at http://feefhs.org
4. Miscellaneous other Societies
Tid Bits & Fun
Books of Interest
Morton Allen Ship Directory and St. Alben's
Directory
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Immigration and Naturalization Service Records Indexing
Project
Zeitweiser Index - Second installment. (Index of all
articles contained in the Zeitweiser books
published by Hilfskomitees der Galiziendeutschen, Theodor - Veiel
Str. 55, 70375 Stuttgart, Germany) Part 2
of 4 - To order copies the codes match up with members D1 =
Dolores Duy; L4 = Brian Lenius; W1 Evelyn Wolfer; W5 = Betty Wray
whose addresses are found in Update of Members & Submitters
List.
Sharing Our Heritage - as of July 1998 - separate
attachment
Yearly Update of Members and Submitters to Sharing Our Heritage -
separate attachment.
GGD Newsletter #16 - October 1998
Kolonizationwerks Josefs II im Galizien by Ludwig
Schneider (LDS film 1256477) translation and
editing credits to Leona and Fred and Terry Rosenmeier and Eve
Rowley. Chapter VI - Handbillet der
Kaiserin or "Communique from the Empress St. Arch. Nr. 2155 Caale
of 1775" Chapter VII - Layout of the
Colonies and Buildings ... 1-5
ZEITWEISER 1997 pages 113-118 "The History of the
Protestant Parish of Hohenbach"
by Leopold Wech (translated by Dolores Duy and Ella Numerich ...
5-8
The Manz Family in East Galica and Bukovina 150 Years Ago
from Wilhelm Messner's book >i>Die
Schwäbische-Pfälzische Bauernsiedlung - Deutsch
Tereblestie. (Heubach / Württemberg, Germany: 1985)
pages 191-194 translated / edited by Irmgard Hein Ellingson with
a map of Bukovina 1910 and German Settlements in Bukovina map ...
The Other Palatines in America - Ed Brandt (reprinted from
The Palatine Immigrant, Spring 1991) ... 13-15
Members' Comments and Success Stories: Richard Graumann -
Bandrow; Dolores Schick & Fay Jordaens on
surname Schmal; Daniel Bogdan - Baznowka and Nowosielce; Glen
Linscheid on surname Brubacher);
Update by Gelsendorf Village Coordinator Tania Turner for Birth,
Marriages & Death
Records; John Schmidt Needs medical help for improvement of
Dermatology in Lviv ... 15-17
E-MAIL AND INTERNET INFO: Vital Records Site; Suggestions on
How to Label Photographs; WW
II
Draft Registrations, Immigration & Naturalization Service
address; Austrian Military Records; On-Line
Translation Services; Translating Letters from the Polish
National Archives;Ellis Island
Searchable Database; Ortsliste Galizien villages Polish & German
spellings ... 17 - 19
News of Conventions/Reunions - Darfur, MN ... 19 - 20
BOOKS & MAPS OF INTEREST ... 20
UPDATE ON STATUS OF RESETTLEMENT FILM INDEXING - Steve Stroud ...
21 - 22
NEWS FROM OTHER GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES
Call for papers from Eastern European Folk Art, Folk Culture and
Folk Ritual Jan 15 - 17, 1999 ... 22
SHARING OUR HERITAGE: Surnames, Villages and Members
Codes/Corrections & Additions ... 23
Member Name, Home and E-Mail Addresses/Corrections & Additions
... 23 - 24
Zeitweiser Index - Part 3 - If you wish any article,
contact member (code on right- W1, W5, L4,
D1)
GGD Newsletter #17 - January 1999
Kolonizationswerks of Josefs II in Galizien Chapter 8 -
Achievements of the Colonists ... 1-3
Taxes, Forced Labor, Abolition and Cultivation
We Too, Were To Be Resettled - by Horst Senft & translated
by Heinz Mueller 4-5
A Century in the West - Life of a Pioneer Woman - Mary Popp's
Story - written by Mary Popp
(includes pedigree charts Lowenberger, Dressler, Nerbass,
Hettenbach, Baumung, Busch, Haas, Dressler, Geib,
Schappert, Koch all from Landestreu, Galicia & edited by Don
Layh) Includes pedigrees and Index of names
found within the book ... 5-13
Bruckenthal 1772 - from the 1940 Zeitweiser - by
Anton Scheller, translated by M.
Corcoran ... 13-15
Josefsberg ein Pfalzisches Dorf in Galizien - A
contribution to the history of emigrants from
Palatinate. List of settlers for houses #2 - 90 & includes their
village of birth. Translated by Erich Slawski -
and Letter from Georg Heuchert of Josefsberg dtd 1909 On Fire
Within The Village ... 15-17
Tid-Bits & Fun - Christmas Story and Murphy's Law of Genealogy,
FOIA, Morton Allen Directory ... 16 &
19
News from Other Genealogical Societies ... 19
1911 Canadian Census Index ... 19
E-MAIL AND INTERNET INFO ... 19-21
Map of Galicia ... 22
Messages from Members & Status on Resettlement Film Indexing ...
21 - 22
Galizien Recipes ... 23
BOOKS / ARTICLES OF INTEREST ... 23-24
Gazetteer of former Galicia and Bukovina ... 23
Upcoming Conventions ... 24
SHARING OUR HERITAGE: Member Name, Home and E-Mail Addresses /
Updates) ... 24 - 26
Surnames and Villages - additions to database)
GGD Newsletter #18 - April 1999
Kolonizationswerks of Josefs II in Galizien, Chapter 9 -
Poverty and Hardship by Ludwig Schneider (LDS microfilm
1256477) translated by Leona Rosenmeier
Recollections of Bandrow - By Ernst H.and Edward T.
Ackermann (includes a map and photos of Bandrow, names found in
the Schneider work (above), parish records, members ancestral
pedigrees.
Books of Interst - Dornfelder Kirchenbuch, Einwohner von
Ugartsthal & Landestreu, etc.
E-Mail and Internet Info:
Tid Bits & Fun, Bits & Pieces: Dear Ancestor Poem; A word to the
wise - a sad experience in archival request; For Whatever This is
Worth, Is there a Card Index on Passenger Lists? Bremen & Other
Ship Passenger Lines, etc.
More Genealogical Sources of Interest: Using MARC Record -
Machine
Readable Cataloging and US Gen Web Census Project.
Variants of Given Names
From Bukovina to Canada & America - Part I. Autobiography of
Frederick S. Schmal - shared with us by Fay Schmal
Jordaens
News from Other Genealogical Societies.
Success Stories - Maray Corcoran and DeFea family.
Sharing Our Heritage: Surnames, Villages & Members Codes /
Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & Email Addresses/Corrections & Additions
GGD Newsletter #19 - July 1999
Hohenbach (The Former Settlements of Joseph II in the Weichsel
- San Triangle) written by Joseph Hessler, and translated by
Steven Stroud. Also includes former inhabitants from Schneider's
work 1790-1820 as well as WW II Era 1940
Map of settlers living in Hohenbach, Kreis Mielec –
Evangelische Gemeinde - source, the Zeitweiser
Data obtained from Resettlement films incorporated into Stroud’s
database from the former Inhabitants of Hohenbach – includes
their domicile connections and familial connections
Continuation of Shared Ahnentafels and Pedigrees from members
with ancestry from Hohenbach
From Bukovina to Canada and America, "Part II" Autobiography
of Frederick W. Schmal Shared with us by Fay Schmal Jordaens
Serfdom A review of several books on the subject (Part 1)
- (Part II in October)
Report on Austrian Census Records Available in Poland and Ukraine
Archives - Gayle Riley & FEEFHS
E-Mail & Internet Information
News from other Genealogical Sources
FEEFHS Convention at AirTel Hotel, Van Nuys, CA
Sharing Our Heritage
Surnames, Villages and Members Codes/Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & E-mail Addresses/Corrections & Additions
GGD Newsletter #20 - October 1999
Kolonisationwerks of Josef II in Galizien "Chapter 10" - The
Second Settlement Period 1802 until 1805 (by Ludwig Schneider
from LDS microfilm 1256477) - translated by Leona Rosenmeier
Beckersdorf (translated from Zeitweiser article) "History,
List of Original Heads of Households 1787, Village Map (Ortsplot)
about 1939, Odenbreits / Ottenbreits pedigrees
Galizien History: partial translation from the Homeland
Archive "The Daum Family Tree" Galizien Germans by Ernst Hexel
(translated by Sylvia Cronin)
Galizien Village Genealogies Databases held by Kathy
Enders from Manfred Daum"
Brigidau, Gassendorf, Neudorf, Gelsendorf, Engelsberg,
Ugartsberg
Trip to Michalowka (includes a map) by relatives of member Lorne
and Georgina Edwards
Immanual Evangelical Lutheran Church in Landestreu, Saskatchewn
1895-1970
News from The Carpathian Heritage Society - (rebuilding Bandrow)
Agnieszka Lopata
News from other Genealogical Sources: Family History Library:
"Family Search"; Bukovina Society Newsletter, Ontario
Genealogical Society "Release of Post 1901 Census"; Pedigree
Collapse; Books held by SGS Library Regina; FEEFHS Journal
articles, etc.
Internet & E-Mail Information Contacting Polish Archives to do
Research; Making Your Computer Keyboard International; URL
addresses, etc.
Bits & Pieces Fun "Poems" In Memorium Neal Ender
Kandels in Landestreu Edward Brandt
Books of Interest
Success Stories from Members
Birthdays & Deaths listed in Das Heilige Band May & June 1999
Hohenbach "continued Pedigrees - Carol Leonard" see Newsletter
#19 for Hohenbach article
General Interest Messages Sent to GGD from members
Sharing Our Heritage - Surnames, Villages and Members
Codes/Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & E-mail Addresses/Corrections & Additions
GGD Newsletter #21 - January 2000
Kolonisationwerks of Josef II in Galizien: Chapter 11 -
Private Colonization, with map of Beckersdorf,
Bedrykowce
Dobrowlany (Ludwig Schneider on LDS microfilm 1256477) -
translated compliments of Maury
Gauer
The German Migration to the East by Jerry Frank (with
permission from author and FEEFHS, was
previously published in FEEFHS Journal Vol. 7, #1 and 2)
Padew, Reichsheim, Schonager, Hohenbach and related map
(article sent in by Carol Leonard)
Descendency charts of members ancestors: (Fred Wilhelmi, Lillian
Pelzer, George Croake)
Map of Padew in 1908 from recollection of John Numrich
Photos of Reichsheim, Padew, Hohenbach/Czermin (sent in by Carol
Leonard)
Reichsheim, Padew and Hohenbach House/Inhabitants List 1780-90
and 1829-33)
Pedigree Chart of Heinz Mueller's family
Government's Internment of Ukrainian Canadians in
Concentration Camps in Canada during the period of
1914-1920 - and allied article - The Artificial Famine in
Ukraine 1932-33
Email & Internet: 1903 Project Passenger Lists, Resettlement
Records, Maps, German Lineage Books
Books of Interest
Tid Bits & Fun: A Brother's Song, Having a Reunion, Rekindling
Traditions of Christmases Past
Births & Deaths from Das Heilige Band issues September and
October 1999
News from Other Genealogical Societies (includes trips to
Galicia and another excursion to Bukovina)
Success Stories- Tressie Cronin, Alicia Philipp, Carl Ulmer, Judy
Kidd, Ron Becker
Sharing Our Heritage - Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & E-mail Addresses / Corrections and
Additions
Obtaining and Using Army Maps of Galicia: LDS microfiche
6000198-6000339
Photos from Lorne Edward's family trip to Michaelowka (see Oct.
1999 Newsletter #20 article)
GGD Newsletter #22 - April 2000
Kolonisationwerks of Josef II in Galizien "Chapter 12" - The
Colonization and the Jewish Question. (by Ludwig Schneider from
LDS microfilm 1256477) - translated by Leona & Fred Rosenmeier
Königsau "In Königsau It Was Simply Splendid" by
Johannes Bill Zeitweiser 1971 (condensed)
Plot Map of village of Königsau (last page)
Location of Vital Records for Medenice, Königsau / Rowne
Appendix to the Contribution by Maria Schuster, Zeitweiser
der Galiziendeutschen 1998.
Places of Origin of the Königsau Families for time periods
1787, 1820, 1939 / 1940 by Maria Schuster
Names on the Gravestones, Königsau Cemetery (Rowne, Ukraine)
September 1999, Maria Schuster
Cousins Explained, chart showing family relationships and how to
figure it all out
Meyers Ortslexikon (How to Use It) by Fay Deardon
Gemeinde Lexikons in German Research (How to Use It) by Fay S.
Dearden
Brigidau, Dornfeld, Engelsberg, Gassendorf, Gelsendorf, Neudorf,
Ugartsberg, and Ugartsthal / Landestreu Databases available,
contact Kathy Enders
Tid-Bits & Fun: Family Tree Poem; How Do You Live Your
Dash?;
Ground Hog Day Traditions
News from Other Genealogical Societies
Federation of Genealogical Societies Convention, Salt Lake City,
UT 6-9 Sep 2000
No More Canadian Census Ever To Be Released
Ship's Passenger Lists to 1935. Available at National Archives of
Canada
Internet and E-Mail Information
Books of Interest
Success Story in writing to Galiziendeutsches Heimatarchiv in
Kaiserslautern, Germany, Henry Trapp
Sharing Our Heritage - Surnames, Villages and Members
Codes/Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & E-mail Addresses / Corrections &
Additions
Address and Information to Order Heimatbooks and Zeitweisers,
etc., Map of Königsau
GGD Newsletter #23 - July 2000
Kolonisationwerks of Josef II in Galizien "Chapter 13" The
Opposition of the Polish Aristocracy (by Ludwig Schneider
from LDS microfilm 1256477) - translated by Leona & Fred
Rosenmeier
Kaisersdorf - List of Inhabitants of Kaisersdorf in
1939
- submitted by Cynthia McEachern
L. Schneider's Das Kolonisationwerks Josef II in Galizien:
Surveys in 1788 & 1820
Small map of Galicia indicating location of Kaisersdorf
Cynthia McEachern's ancestors (Ahnentafel)
Photos from Kaisersdorf
Pedigree Chart and Descendency Lists from members: Bahnck,
McNamara and Wray ancestors from Kaisersdorf and environs
Article from Zeitweiser 1969 pages 81-102 on Kaisersdorf,
translated by Daniela Martin, then condensed
The Strength from the Past translated from the German
Spiegel by Julius & Edith (Forrer) Butz Submitted by Glenn
Linscheid and Gustav Bachman of Auckland, NZ.
Cooking, Eating and Drinking in the Zipser Village of Eisenau
in Bukovina by Renate Geschwendtner, translated by: Dr.
Sophie A. Welisch (originally published in the Bukovina
Society of the Americas Newsletter Vol. 10, #4, December 1999
– with permission of the Society and the author)
Konigsau, Galizien Reunion in Ostrau, Germany 2 September
2000.
Poem sent in by Dolly Duy, author unknown, Your
Tombstone
FEEFHS Genealogical Convention 2000 - Salt Lake City, Utah
22-24 September
Books Of Interest
Success Stories and Messages from Members
CD's containing extracted genealogical data are now available
on selected Galizien villages from the Hilfskomitee, Stuttgart,
Germany - How to order
Sharing Our Heritage - Surnames, Villages and Members
Codes/Corrections & Additions
Member Name, Home & E-mail Addresses/Corrections & Additions
GGD Newsletter #24 - October 2000 (30 pages)
Mariahilf, Established in 1811, written by Sigmund
Kolmer
Chapter: Settlements of the Böhmerwalder in Galizien
submitted by Otto Weber and translated by Daniella Martin.
Includes map of Bukovina showing Böhmerwalder area,
Neuhütte, Alth&uu,l;tte, Putna and Karlsberg, etc. Maps of
Mariahilf showing family domiciles.
A Visit to the Village of Angelowka, Galicia, Ukraine Ted
Reznowski. Includes a list of Inhabitants circa 1845 and second
list corresponding to Cadastre maps of 1879.
"Bohemian Ancestors Emigrate to Eastern Galicia, Failing to
Notify Descendants", a Case Study in Czech Research by James
Pelikan and Duncan B. Gardiner, PhD, CG, AG (previously published
in FEEFHS Quarterly Vol. 7, #1-2, Spring/Summer 1999)
1890 Immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Galicia by Dr.
Howard M. Relles
Possible Trip to the Ukraine, Neudorf, Konigsau, etc. May
2001
LDS and Family History Library News
New Pedigree Resource File on 10 CD-ROMs can be ordered from the
LDS Distribution Center
Family History Library Catalog now available on CD-ROM for $5.00
from LDS Distribution Center
Internet & E-mail News
Excerpts from the Lives of the Mess Family in Dolina, Galicia and
North Dakota
Tid-Bits & Fun - How to figure cousins and other
relationships
Success Stories and Messages from Members
See also GGD Newsletter
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