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Author: birchyj
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The village name is more probably "Ritschenwalde", see:
http://www.birchy.com/GenWiki/index.php?title=Community_of_Ritschenwalde,...
After 1889, it had its own Protestant church, but before then, they are said to have used
the church in Gramsdorf (Bukowiec). Unfortunately, not many of those church books seem to
have survived. Only about 4 years during Napoleon's romp are listed in the LDS films
catalog:
LDS microfilms Births 1813-1817 807972 #3
James
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