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Monthly Archives: January 2013
From Days Gone By, Part 1
The First German Church A little church in Wilna, a larger city near Wylkowiszki, was the site of the first German church in Lithuania in which German services were held. As the story goes, when Napoleon came through Wilna, he … Continue reading
The Salzburgers
One of the religious/political controversies resulting from the 16th century Protestant Reformation and subsequent Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation involved a group of people who came to be known historically as “The Salzburgers.” The Salzburger Protestants were driven out of their homeland … Continue reading
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Tagged East Prussia, German
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Cultural Interactions between Germans and Lithuanians
Germans in Germany had various perceptions regarding Lithuania and its Germans. Up until World War I there was little knowledge about the structure of the people who lived in the Baltic provinces, even by German military officers. Baltic-Germans were considered … Continue reading
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Introduction to the German Perspective
Introduction Before 1772 Prussia was a region which consisted of what was later known as East Prussia with the capital at Koenigsberg, today Kaliningrad, Russia. Prussia had been a duchy since 1525, a kingdom of the Hohenzollern dynasty since 1701 … Continue reading
Connecting Data and Family Stories
By far the most valuable purpose of the Polish Encyclopaedia of 1923 is the validity it has given to numerous family stories. Family Story • One –at ancestor had five wives. • Another had four wives. Fact/Conclusion “The tendency to … Continue reading
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Conclusions
Final Conclusions By 1923 the Poles and the Jews were increasing to the degree that they comprised nine tenths of the Kingdom while the Germans and the Lithuanians were decreasing. In all the governments except the northern half of Suwalki … Continue reading
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Tagged German, Jews, Lithuanians, Polish
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Observations about “The German Population”
The authors of the Polish Encyclopaedia of 1923 observed 1 that the German “colonists” were • A small number of Prussian subjects from neighboring Mazurian districts in the south. • A number of German districts in the center. • A … Continue reading
The Jewish Minority and the Natural Increase of the Population
The Jewish Minority The Government of Suwalki formed the westernmost corner of the Pale of Settlement where Russian Jews were forced to live by restrictive laws passed in 1795 and 1835. In 1882, 500,000 Jews living in rural areas of … Continue reading
The Russian Influence
These –at families, as Germans living in the Russian Empire, should not be confused with the more widely-known “Germans from Russia.” Those Germans had been invited to colonize Russia during the reign of the German princess who later became Catherine … Continue reading
Economics, Birth Rates, and Civilan and Military Population
Economics One sentence may summarize the economic condition of many -at ancestors: “The Government of Suwalki is economically the most behindhand of all the Kingdom of Poland; it is purely agricultural, subject to a great amount of emigration, and inhabited … Continue reading
Genealogy for German Lutherans In Suwalki Province 