Looking for ancestors in Ratno

[ogden1]

I am looking to find more information about my family that came to the US in the early 1900's from Ratno, Poland. (now Ukraine)

I have a marriage date for my great grandfather, Itzak (or Itzig) Zamel who married Famya Freidel Teitelbaum, on October 25 1903 in Ratno

I also received info that Itzak Zamel "left the Czar's army and escaped to the US with an Uncle". His Naturalization papers say he was in the Army from 1901 to 1903. He emigrated from Bremen, Germany to Baltimore , Maryland (US) in 1904, and his wife and daughter in came in 1906.

How can I find more information about this family in Ratno?

[Hannia]

I am looking to find more information about my family that came to the US in the early 1900's from Ratno, Poland. (now Ukraine)

From late 18th century to 1921 there was no such geopolitical entity as Poland. Ratno was located in the Kovel District > Vohlynskaya Gubernaya/Region > Russia, today Ukraine, on the border w/Grodno Guberniya >Russia, today Belarus.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/Vol...S/volhynia.jpg

Pinkas Hakehillot Polin: Ratno, Ukraine
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pink...l5_00187b.html

Welcome to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgs-colorado/history.html

RTRFoundation
http://www.rtrfoundation.org/archdta.html

Consider contacting Archives in Lutsk and asking whether Jewish Records for 1906 Ratno are in Lutsk or Kiev.

State Archive of Volhynia Oblast
[Derzhavnyi arkhiv Volynskoi oblasti]
21 Veteraniv st., (Archive 1)
37a Glyshets st., (Archive 2)
43024 Lutsk
Tel:Fax: (03322) 5-75-33
e-mail: davo@fk.lutsk.ua

[ogden1]

Thank You! I will begin with the info and links you sent.

To contact the Archives in Lutsk, can I write the email or the letters in English?

[Hannia]

Yes, but make the language as simple as possible.

[Hannia]

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