FYI -- Those of you with an interest in the Posen/Poznan area of Poland may be interested to learn about this project, which involves the indexing of marriage records, including some for Lutherans. Those of you with an interest in the area may wish to volunteer for the project. -- Mary Taffet List Administrator for LUTHERAN-ROOTS mdtaffet@syr.edu -------- Original Message -------- Subject: PML Search Result matching Lutheran ANDNOT x-loop/LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:22:43 -0800 From: KarenHob@aol.com To: mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu ============================================================ A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ============================================================ Source: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L] Anouncement of the Poznan Project Some GB list members have indicated they also have ancestors from Posnan district of Poland. The following announcement regarding construction of a marriage index for the region may be of interest: In a message dated 02/22/2000 1:55:50 PM Mountain Standard Time, bielecki@rose.man.poznan.pl writes: To those interested in the genealogical research of the Poznan/Posen region: For some time, we have been discussing the possibility of undertaking a joint project on indexing the marriages which had taken place in the former Prussian province of Posen (now region of Poznan, Poland) within the timeframe of 1836-85. It is commonly known that a vast number of immigrants declared 'Posen' as their place of origin, which is presently often misunderstood as the city of Posen/Poznan being only the capital of a large area. Thus, numerous families had lost the information of the actual place of origin of their ancestors - and the mere surname is rarely an efficient hint. Many of us have already been trying various strategies of pinpointing the actual town of parish of origin for cases like that. This was often done seeking the 'needle in a haystack', i.e. checking a number of parishes from some part of the province. The objective is, in a word, doing it once and for all - and a good way for this would be indexing marriages from the entire Posen territory. The resultant database would definitely help anybody find the right couple within Posen, or at least identify parishes where the surname occurs. Given there were 530 Catholic parishes and about 150 Lutheran communities in the area in question (this sort of indexing would not be very helpful for Jewish research, due to the destruction of records), it should be feasible to index the marriages - if only a necessary number of volunteers can be found. Over the 50 years period there would be ca. 200 up to 2000 marriages in typical parishes to write down - and the information to extract would be essentially only the names and age of the spouses. As the major part of the records necessary for this have already been microfilmed by the LDS church, it would be possible to anybody in the world to participate. Please send this announcement to anybody who might be interested in the Posen/Poznan region. If you would like to join the project, please email me and I will send you further information on how to combine our efforts. It will be appreciated if you declare to 'host' an individual parish which you might already have worked with. With best regards Lukasz Bielecki ============================================================ Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Noskowskiego 12/14, PL-61-704 Poznan, phone: +48 61 8528503 ext. 193 mailto:bielecki@ibch.poznan.pl http://www.man.poznan.pl/~bielecki ============================================================ >>