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Comment by Albertus Lang on February 8, 2012 at 6:03am

Hello Michael Boscarato,Many thanks for the lookup etc and the site's, will have some checking up to do ,cheers Albertus.

Comment by Frederick george henchell on February 6, 2012 at 7:22pm

I think "Google Translate" is very useful.  I copied Michael Boscarato's message body which was in Polish.  This is what I got:

Michael Heppner. grocery
78-540
 
Giżyno,
 
25a
province. West, pow. Drawski, gm. Kalisz Pomorski
Category: Food-stuff - Retail Sales
Tel: 94 361 60 21
The system. Educational company - consulting. Heppner K.
64-730
 
Wielen,
 
acacia 8
province. Greater, pow. Czarnkowsko-trzcianecki, gm. Wieleń

Michael Heppner. grocery
78-540
 
Giżyno,
 
25a
province. West, pow. Drawski, gm. Kalisz Pomorski
Category: Food-stuff - Retail Sales
Tel: 94 361 60 21
The system. Educational company - consulting. Heppner K.
64-730
 
Wielen,
 
acacia 8
province. Greater, pow. Czarnkowsko-trzcianecki, gm. Wieleń

 

Comment by Sheila Elaine Edmondson Bowling on February 6, 2012 at 6:50pm

Thanks for the help with the Heppner family. Armed with my book 'If I Can You can Decipher Germanic Records' I'll head back to the FHL in Los Angeles.

Comment by Albertus Lang on February 6, 2012 at 6:07pm

Hello List, Still trying to get details on death details on Giesen Gerhard ,Born 1806 in Eppinghofen,any details would be nice ,Kind Regards Albertus.

Comment by Gloria Weber Baikauskas on February 6, 2012 at 2:19pm

I should add that there are fees for using those archives...just like we are charged in the US for the National Archives unless we are looking at microfilm ourselves.  They charge for their research time and how many pages you decide you want/need. 

Comment by Gloria Weber Baikauskas on February 6, 2012 at 2:17pm

In Poland they have government archives in some areas/regions.  I don't have the URLs to them, but if you do a search, you might find them.  Doing Lithuanian genealogy gets interesting because Lithuania and Poland were once united when their royals married.  So some parts of old Lithuania are now in Poland...and also perhaps from WWII.  You send your questions to the Archives and may get the answers. 

Part of the problem is going to be whether the records were destroyed in the wars from bombing or fires. 

Do a search for government archives within Poland.  You should find them. 

Comment by Marianne Szabo on February 6, 2012 at 2:14pm

Amy - here is what's at FHL under Gdansk, Poland:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/search/library_catalog#searchTy...

However, you will be much more successful if you know the village as it was when Germany ruled over part of Poland (such as Marienau for my family).  The film I'm looking at now for Catholic baptisms goes up to 1944.  Most of these records also have a set for "Evalengische" (Lutheran) in different microfilms.

What religion did your relatives practice?  Do you have any records from here in the U.S. that mention the town/village they were from (I have U.S. baptism records that asked where the parents were originally from, which is where I found Marienau).  How about naturalization papers, alien registration records, passenger lists?

What surnames are you researching?  Marianne

Comment by Catherine Davis on February 6, 2012 at 2:08pm

Sheila, Although I have done German research, I haven't done any German-Polish research, so am probably not a real help to you, but I've found the following info on the web.  First, there is no such place as Happelbach, but in German script, s often looks like p and there are three Hasselbachs in Germany, but none of them is  in Silesia.  There is a Hasselbach in Baden, which is on the southwest side of Germany and two (in different districts) in Hessen-Nassau (now Hessen) which is just north of Baden, so still on the west side of the country, so it looks like your family may have moved at some point. 

According to the catalog at familysearch.org, the Family History Centers have films for only the Catholic church of Hasselbach (Kr. Usingen) in Hesse but they have Lutheran records for Hasselbach (Oberlahnkreis) in Hesse and for Hasselbach in Baden.  They also have church records for two districts of Pfaffendorf in Silesia.  Those for Kr. Lauban are very early church records (pre 1779) and civil records after 1874, nothing in between.  For Kr. Reichenbach, they have only the post 1874 civil records.  You may want to go to a FHC and rent the films for some of these places.  The records will be in old German, which is a bit tricky to read but not impossible.  I've found the handwriting section (p39) of the research guide at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/images/34061_Germany05.pdf and the German genealogy word list at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/WLGerman.ASP to be helpful in reading and translating German records.  You can also google German handwriting guide to find other "helps" to reading the old script.

Comment by Amy on February 6, 2012 at 11:14am

Marianne, I'm looking for 1930s backwards, also in the Gdansk area. 

Comment by Sheila Elaine Edmondson Bowling on February 6, 2012 at 11:05am

I'm looking for records on the Heppner family who lived in Pfaffendorf, Germany, County of Landeshut in Silesia. It is now Szarocin, Kamienna Gora, Poland. The period of time I am interested in is 1830 - 1950. When my grandmother arrived in America with her sister in 1902 they had a letter from the Lutheran Church in the parish of Happelbach or Haselbach.  Any information about where I can find these records would be greatly appreciated. I would also be interested in the name of an English speaking genealogist who researches in this area.

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