Work In Progress


https://www.geni.com/people/Michael-Rettke/6000000175753001966


https://www.genealoger.com/german/pommern/pommern__church_records.htm

http://mypomerania.com/church-books/

http://bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/dlibra/show-content/publication/edition/61724?showContent=true&id=61724&fbclid=IwAR2fXdKOXkZY3o1J3jn66xm7dubLz0Fd6-SRvmvQx5uzJnwgSMoJGuwnAGw

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ebie%C5%84_(Nowa_Wie%C5%9B_L%C4%99borska)

The parish seat was Labehn, from where in 1940 3200 church members were to be provided. It was located in the church district Lauenburg in the eastern part of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania, the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Numerous church books saved by World War II are now stored in the Gdańsk State Archive (Archiwum Państwowe Gdańskie)..

http://en.pommerndatenbank.de/

Leba  no church books, civil after 1874

Zezenow no church books, civil after 1874

G. Jannewitz http://hinterpommern.de/Wegweiser/node61.html

see also archive in stolp

Labbehn no church books, civil after 1874

Schwartow http://hinterpommern.de/Wegweiser/node27.html

Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Schwartow (Kr. Lauenburg). Kirchenbuch, 1677-1813. Salt Lake City

Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Schwartow (Kr. Lauenburg). Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1866-1874

see also archive in stolp, berlin


archive in Stettin and looked into the emigration records of Kreis Lauenburg from 1868-1871. A lot of documents, around 4000 pages (IMG7054).  look for relevant year

Thankfully, an inventory exists for Stettin to help take out some of the work involved. The collections for Köslin are not as easy to parse through, and as to what is held in the Landesarchiv Greifswald–good luck finding out.




Images of these church records from archive are in the folder below...

documentlistfrommariusz

1881 Johann Rettke death certificate, critical document on the DNA collateral line, shared with cousins

Number 25

In Charbrow on 1 August, 1881 

Appearing before the civil registrar, it was stated today, by the widow Wilhelmine Rettke, nee Gnadt, who lives in Charbrow, and declared that the herdsman, Johann Rettke, 54 years and 4 months old, of Evangelical religion, who lived in Charbrow and was born in Charbrow and was married, has died. It is announced that he was son of herdsman George Rettke and his wife Constantasia Rettke, nee Bock, of Charbrow and died on the 31st of July, 1881 at 11:00 a.m. 

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marriage register 1931

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