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From: =James Birkholz= <>
Subject: Re: [POSEN] Warnke, Splitt, Hoffmann research
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:00:14 -0600
In-Reply-To: <000a01c41844$2272ad00$b9c77689@e7k7n8>


I was going to suggest trying the Mogilno records, but don't think they've
survived earlier.
One of the better resources for deciding where to look, if you know the
Kreis, is Lukasz's page:
http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/posguide.htm

Kaiserfelde was created from Mogilno's church in 1871. Neither have
Protestant records that survived, as far as we know at this time. Unless I
misssed something, I don't see any surviving Protestant records listed for
Kr Mogilno except Tremessen. Hopefully, some will turn up in the local
Catholic parish offices, as they did in Golantsch, Kr. Wongrowitz.

So the Catholic Parlinek records in the late 1700s and early 1800s may be
your best bet.

Sometimes the histories will record that certain settlements were settled
by Germans from a particular area. Unless you find such info, it's hard to
say. Depending on the time, some came from SW Germany, some came from the
NW neighbors, some from Silesia. By the late 1800s, enough inter-settlement
migration had ocurred to make it hard to say. Let's say that some in a
village of Salzburger colonists married the teacher, and all the teacher's
cousins moved in because they heard some good land was available since the
death of the widow Frau Keinkinder ("noChildren"). Typically, a settlement
originally had people recruited mostly from the same area. But then 100
years later, a new settlement is started nearby and is settled by people
from an entirely different area.

Settlement occured in several waves. The first was in medievel times, but
most of those German Catholics were absorbed and became Polish Catholics.
There was another after the Reformation and most of those survived, passing
through the Counter-Reformation and into the German occupation.

James

At 06:49 PM 4/1/04, Chris Bain wrote:
>Through James Birkholz's kind help, some clues on two old pictures, and a
>Splitt obituary that indicated the Splitts were from Bromberg, I have
>developed some confidence that these German Lutheran ancestors may have
>been from or near Parlinek, Dabrowa (Kaisersfelde), Mogilno Powiat.
>According to Kartenmeister.com, Parlinek kolonie is in Kreis Mogilno, that
>the Lutheran Parrish is Kaisersfelde 1905, that the Catholic Parrish is
>Parlin 1905, and that the Civil Registry is Mogilno, Landbezirk 1905. I
>assume that the "1905" designation means that was the situation in that year.
>To you Posen experts-- Is Kaisersfelde where we start?
>I don't seem to understand how you access the LDS catalogue to determine
>the availability of records from that source. Can someone help me with that.
>As they were probably German colonists, What is the period in which
>colonization took place in that area-- since the Partitions of 1973 or
>since 1815? Do we know whether colonists came from a particular place in
>Prussia/Germany or did they come from anyplace? I apologize for the length
>of this message!
>Thanks
>George Bain

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