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Location of Antanofka (Antanovka, Antonuwka)

  • Jun. 27th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Unruh Family
I received a correction regarding some information on my Unruh Genealogy Website.

"Antanofka, in Russian Poland was aproximately 15 miles southwest of Karlswalde."

I believe I got this information from the book, "The Helpless Poles," but I'll have to confirm that. In any case, someone who knows more about the area contributed the following correction:

"In fact, Karlswalde and nearby Antanofka (Antonuwka) was located in Volhynia which was a province of Russia since the partitions of Poland in the late 1700s. Between 1921 and WW II it was part of Poland. It has never been part of the region known as Russian Poland. Today this is in Ukraine.

I see also in other parts of your site that you make reference to South Russia. Although there is no such literal place, it generally refers to those Germans, including Mennonites, who settled within a limited region north of the Black Sea. Just to clarify, this does not include Volhynia."

I found a map online that includes Antanofka (Antanovka) here:

http://home.arcor.de/pulin/karlswalde/maps/ostr_map.jpg

Unruh Family Organization

  • Jun. 19th, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Unruh Family
I received an email a few months back asking if I know of an Unruh Family Organization, as the have with other family names. I am not aware of one, but if any one is, please let me know by leaving a comment!

Unruh in Meno

  • Jun. 19th, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Unruh Family

I received an email today from a gentleman who found my Unruh Genealogy Website. His Grandparents had a farm in Meno, OK, and he had lived there until the late 60's. His mother had given him a handwritten account of the establishment of the settlement known as Meno.  His grandmother wrote it to be handed down to the grandchildren.  Evidently his great-grandfather settled in the Meno area and the dugout root cellar that his family lived in became the first meeting place for the Menonites in Meno.  It was also used as the first church.  Eventually a farmhouse was raised above the cellar and he remembered, as a young child, playing in the cellar under the house.  His family moved from Meno in the late 60's after his grandmother passed away and the farm was sold.  
 

 

Although I didn't have any specific information on his family, I did remember an email I received from another Unruh who mentioned  Meno, OK. He had grown up in the Enid Oklahoma area and all of his Unruh ancestors are buried at the Hopedale Cemetery in Meno Oklahoma. He also told me that his GG Grandfather came over on the S.S. Kenilworth in Jan. 1875 with his family. He believed his Great Grandfather's 3rd wife to be was on the Vaterland. As a result of that exchange I posted the passenger list for the S.S. Vaterland (Vaderland) on my website (Arriving PA, Dec 25, 1874). 

Unruh Family History, Unruh Genealogy

  • Jun. 16th, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Unruh Family
This blog will be a working notebook for my Unruh genealogy, Unruh family history website. New information will first appear here in rough form, before I clean it up and post it there.