Our discovery of the name of David Buller’s father Benjamin, for example, depended on a census translated by Sergei Chaiderman and posted by Richard D. Thiessen on the Mennonite Genealogical Resources website (here). Similarly, when we explored early Buller immigrants to Volhynia we drew upon Glenn Penner’s “Mennonite Immigration from Jeziorka, West Prussia to Volhynia, Russia, in 1803 and 1804,” likewise available on the Mennonite Genealogical Resources website (here). Not to say too much, but we will soon discuss another significant discovery about our ancestors from this same resource.
To be honest, Buller Time would not exist without the resources provided by this community of Mennonite historians and genealogists. We owe them sincere and constant thanks for all that they have given to all of us interested in Mennonite history. But beyond that, we also owe this community our own efforts, our own contributions—which is why I am happy to report that Buller Time’s first contributed resource has been posted to the Mennonite Genealogical Resources website maintained by Richard D. Thiessen.
The file, titled “Schönsee, Poland: Mennonite and Non-Mennonite Residents, 1695–1800,” can be accessed via the link here. Low-resolution images of the two pages are shown below, but readers really need to look at the full-size PDF accessible from the preceding link.
The point of the chart is to show both continuities and discontinuities in Schönsee over the course of a century. Some family names, such as Voth and Siefert (and their variants), extend across the entire century. Others, such as Funk, Decker, Bartel, Boltz, and Nickel, come and go but still appear across multiple decades. Other family names, such as Buller (George), Penner, Sperling, Wedel, and others, are listed only once.
We will come back to this chart in several future posts; for now it is enough to note how fortunate we are to join the community of those providing resources for researchers of Mennonite history and genealogy.
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