"Janice Anderson" <camelot2@citlink.net> schrieb:
I traced some of my German ancestors back to Fabianki in Russian occupied Poland from 1800 forward. According to the history records, German farmers moved from some part of Germany to be farmers in Poland. Several went back to Germany. Then left from Hamburg to the United States and settled in Buffalo, New York about 1900. There they did settled down. The descendants still live in that area. I have yet to find where they originated from in Germany prior to 1800.
Jan A.
Hello Janice Anderson,
there are no "FABIANKI" today, but "FABIANKE", what might be only the German reading, repec-tively "... -ki" is only the Russian writing. Is "FABIANKOWITS" a possible writing ? there are four in 1998 and possibly a Polish or Slavonic variation of the name.
Accidentally there lived and lives a family Fabianke in the same place as i do, here in Bienenbüttel. My parents and the corresponding generation Fabianke were close friends. The living Fabianke will be to young in age to have more detailed informations. What I know is that they lived before 1945 in Pommern, which lateron became part of the GDR.
The telefone directory shows 1998 about 37 Fabianke, unfortunately with no special pattern of spread. There are still several in Hamburg, also in Berlin, but then not two in one place. So, sorry. It doesn`t work in every case.
I will ask the here living Fabianke these days, if they have documents which go so far back.
On the other hand about 30 letters to the different bearers of the of the name today might be perhaps a worthwhile investment. The Inland fee for a letter of no more weight than 20 gramms in Germany is 55 Cents in Euro. Sending them over gathered, stamped and ready adressed in one package might be a possibiliy to reduce cost one more. So if you have nobody to unwrap the package and deliver the single letters to the local post ou might use me and my adress. The language in the letter should be In German and English.
Sorry for being of no more directly help, but what are the given dates of your eldest documented FABIANKI concerning place and personal data ?
Greetings
Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel