Locating church in Tuczyn/Tutchin

[Wilma_S]

Hi all,

My name is Wilma, and I am new to the list. My great X2 grandfather died in Tuczyn,Volhynia in 1902. I have his death certificate or a copy rather that obviously someone in the family sent for in 1937. See link:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com...0065photo.html

I would like to contact the church to get more information about the origional record. Perhaps there are more clues in the record? that I can use to track this family line. Can someone give me advice on where I would write to?

Wilma.

[Hannia]

TODAY Tuczyn is a small agrarian village, of appx 2000 people. It is located about thirty minutes NW of Rivne, the regional & district center. This was formerly the Vohlyn Region. Today it is called Rivnenska Oblast/Region.
_________________________________________________________________________

This is an Evangelical document.

In 1937 Vohlyn belonged to Poland. In 1902 it was the Vohlynskaya Guberniya and belonged to Czarist Russia.

Jerry Frank is the most knowledgeable genealogist
re Germans in Vohlyn Region.
His site will be invaluable to your research.

Title
http://www.sggee.org/

[Hannia]

Evangelical (Lutheran) Church
The church began keeping records in the early 1600s. Births, marriages, deaths, and some confirmations were recorded. The information recorded was much the same as that of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of the registers were indexed. The entries were written in the language of the people: thus, German for the German-speaking inhabitants, etc. The records can be found in the parish if it is still active, in the local civil records offices, and also may be found in the state provincial archives or Protestant or Catholic archives in Poland and Germany. Many registers have been microfilmed by the LDS.

For a map of the diocesan boundaries and links to each diocese's web site, visit the Poland's Evangelical-Augsburg (Lutheran) Dioceses page.


Lutheran Churches in Poland -- in Polish and other languages; click on the DIECEZJE I PARAFIE button to see diocesan boundaries and diocesan addresses
SGGEE's Records Page -- info and several links pertaining to the Lutheran Church in Poland can be found on this page
A church-book information center was founded by the Society of Eastern German Family Researchers. They may be able to assist you in finding the present location of the church for which you are searching:


Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familienforscher e. V.
Kirchenbuchauskunftstelle
Sperlingstrasse 11a
4236 Hamminkeln 4
Deutschland
If your ancestors were from Pommerania, you can write to the Pomeranian Evangelical Church in Greifswald, Germany:


Pommersche Evangelische Kirche
Bahnhofstrasse 35
O-2200 Greifswald
Deutschland
Records for East Prussia were sent to the Central Archives of the Evangelical Church in Berlin:


Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin
Jebenstrasse 3
W-1000 Berlin 12
Deutschland
excerpt
Obtaining Polish Records
http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/Research.html


[Edited by Hannia on 12th March 2006 at 14:32]