Category Archives: Records

Birth, marriage and death records are the three types of civil registration records available for this area in either Polish before circa 1870 or Russian circa after 1870. Additional records in draft form (to be copied permanently later) or confirmation records may appear in an “unofficial” language. Records are available on microfilm, an archive, or may be in one’s personal possession.

Post R2 Personal Research Strategy

Posted on January 28, 2020 by suwalkigermans

Finding the records of East Prussian origins of German ancestors is not easy because Many non-German and German groups settled here. Various jurisdictions existed in this area over the centuries. A wide mixture of migration patterns of Germans eastward and … Continue reading →

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2019 Post 3 The Old and the New

Posted on November 2, 2019 by suwalkigermans

The idea for the revision of this post came about in July 2019 as I was “mining” the Germans from KreisWilkowischken/Vilkaviskis Lithuania Facebook Group. As I sought new topics for future posts, I considered a description of finding some long-sought … Continue reading →

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Pillupönen: Eliminating Possibilities

Posted on January 15, 2019 by suwalkigermans

Since my primary research goal is to locate any records of my paternal and maternal ancestors in East Prussia, I try to go to the Family History Library in Salt Lake as carefully prepared as I can to achieve this … Continue reading →

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Results from Emigrants Index from Stalluponen to Poland (now Lithuania) 1816-1877 Part II

Posted on January 6, 2019 by suwalkigermans

(Information is from three FHL microfilms) FHL FILM 1539248 Item 1 I found a nicely- typed copy of names alphabetized by years starting in 1822. This was exactly the time period I was interested in. Many birth dates were in … Continue reading →

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Emigrants Index from Stallupönen to Poland [now Lithuania] 1816-1877 Part 1

Posted on December 17, 2018 by suwalkigermans

As I have written previously, it is so helpful to have found another family history researcher with whom to work. I refer to my “young German cousin” in Belgium. In May 2016 he asked the following question: Have you ever … Continue reading →

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EWZ Post 8: Spurgat Records

Posted on November 5, 2018 by suwalkigermans

The search with the professional researcher at NARA II was so successful that I decided to ask him to find the EWZ records of all the Spurgats I knew of in Lithuania or East Prussia. I used my list of … Continue reading →

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EWZ Post 7 A Major Breakthrough

Posted on October 2, 2018 by suwalkigermans

INTRODUCTION: I had set up a meeting with Dave Obee, former President of Feefhs, and exemplary Canadian researcher, before the Feefhs conference. I had brought all the ITS papers and some EWZ duplicates of Emil and Johann Hutop, especially the … Continue reading →

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POST 6 EWZ HUTOP

Posted on September 17, 2018 by suwalkigermans

EWZ Records Using the control number of Emil Hutop from his ITS/EWZ file, I found the correct FHL Stammblätter film, not yet digitized. However, I also wanted to search the Einwanderer films to learn how to get the case number. … Continue reading →

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POST 5: EXPERIENCES WITH THE EWZ RECORDS

Posted on September 3, 2018 by suwalkigermans

Introduction  From information on the 1931 marriage record of Emil Hutop and Anele Dainauskaite from a researcher in Lithuania who sent us a description of this record after discovering this blog, (while he was researching the Dainauskaite family), we knew … Continue reading →

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POST 4: EWZ GOALS: Comments, Questions, and Hypotheses

Posted on August 16, 2018 by suwalkigermans

Introduction: After I studied the articles by Obee, Blodgett, and Stroud listed in the first post, I composed a list of comments, questions and hypotheses into three goals. Goal 1: After I was introduced to the International Tracing Service Records, … Continue reading →

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