gidleyjs@erols.com (Jim & Sylvia Gidley) wrote: >My grandfather, Adolf B"uttner was born 14 Jun 1901 in Lodz, Poland. I >requested his birthcertificate from Lodz and it listed the birthdate >and place as well as the parents name, Hermann B"uttner & Berta, nee >Bradacz. Hermann, Berta and their children moved to Halle/Saale, >Germany before 1919. >On Adolf's military pass I found that Berta died in 1939. I wrote to >the Vital Records Office in Halle, but they couldn't help me unless I >know the exact date. I don't know when Hermann died but it must be >after 1940 since my father said there existed a baby picture of him >sitting on his grandpa's lap. My father was born in 1940. >I guess that Hermann and Berta where born in Lodz, Poland. Family >rumors are that Berta's parents were weavers in Lodz. Your rumour has good basis in fact. Lodz was a major centre for the cloth making industry in Poland. >I checked the FHC, but they only have microfilms until 1876. This is for Trinitatus (Trinity) Evangelical (Lutheran). From 1868-1876 in Russian., before that in Polish because these are actually civil records collected by the church, not church records directly. Johannes (St. John) Evangelical split from Trinity in 1884. Records are not microfilmed. >more info on his parents listed. Does anybody have an address for this >Archive, if there excists one in Lodz, or where I would have to write >to get this. I would also be happy if someone happens to have some >addresses for the Ev. Churches in Lodz, I am sure there are several. As of 1991: Parafia Ewangelico-Augsburska ul. Piotrkowska 4 m 16 90-270 Lodz, Polska I recommend you write in Polish if possible. For a free translation of your letter, check out the Translation Team at the German genealogy website: http://www.genealogy.com >I would also appreciate any other suggestion you have. Wandering Volhynians is a magazine designed to serve genealogical interests of Germans from Congress Poland and Volhynia. Check us out at: http://feefhs.org Use their internal search engine to type in "volhynia" and that will take you to our pages. We have 7 subscribers researching BUETTNER / BITTNER. Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta jfrank@cadvision.com