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Another illegible town name help question.

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Re: Martin ERMEL & Christina WEISBROD

Posted: 6 Jun 2015 12:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 6 Jun 2015 12:50PM GMT
6 Jun 2015

I think the consensus is that the village is Suszno in the Radziechow administrative district of Galicia. That's what I see on the manifest, though with the middle s and z swapped.

On the Galizien German Descendants web site we have a list of the available Ortsfamilienbücher (place-family-books), or OFB's as we call them.

http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/Data/Daum_Surnames/...

Clicking on a village name brings up the index for that OFB, and here's Suszno:

http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/Data/Daum_Surnames/...

In the index we find a Martin Ermel born on 20 Apr 1884, part of family group [131], which you can look for elsewhere in the index to find other family members.

Looking at my copy of the Suszno OFB I see Martin, born on 20 Apr 1884 in Suszno, house number 127 and baptized the same day in the parish church in Josefów/Jozefów/Josypivka (German, Polish and Ukrainian versions of the village name).

Going to the Polish Archives AGAD site for German Lutheran church records from eastern Galicia:

http://www.agad.gov.pl/inwentarze/KEAH299xx.xml

we find two sets of birth records that would contain Martin and here's the links to the images:

http://agadd.home.net.pl/metrykalia/299/sygn.%2090/pages/PL_...

http://agadd.home.net.pl/metrykalia/299/sygn.%2088/pages/PL_...

The second link is to a copy of the original record (the first link) and is much easier to read.

As was common for church records in that period, the names of the child's parents and grandparents appear in the record, so you get three generations at once.

Martin's parents were Johann Ludwig Ermel and Maria Barbara Scheuer. Links to other family groups working up the ancestral line are given in the OFB.

A word of caution on the OFB's. A person will show up in an OFB if any significant event of his or her life occurred there, so always check the indexes on-line to see which one has the greatest coverage for your family before purchasing an OFB.

Dave
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