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Germans from Russia
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Beginning Research
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Published Resources[edit | edit source]

  • Baselt, Fonda D. Bibliography of Germans from Russia [in] New York, Nebraska, Colorado. Champaign, Ill.: Baselt, [1994?]. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • German Genealogical Word List Wiki article. Originally in paper from Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1991. FS Library film 6068527(*). Gives English translations of words, dates, and numbers most likely to appear in German language genealogical records.
  • Quester, Erich. Wegweiser für Forschungen nach Vorfahren aus den ostdeutschen und sudetendeutschen Gebieten sowie aus den deutschen Siedlungsräumen in Mittel-, Ost-, und Südosteuropa (Pathfinder for Ancestor Research in the East German and Sudetenland Areas and the German Settlement in Middle, East, and Southeast Europe), 4. Aufl. Neustadt a.d. Aisch: Verlag Degener, 1995. FS Catalog book 943 D27wf; At various libraries (WorldCat). Text in German. Discusses family history, civil registration, gazetteers, maps, archives, libraries, and societies in the Baltic States, Poland, Volinia, Galicia, Bukovina, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaidzhan, Moldova, Kirgizia, Tajikistan, Armenia and Turkmenistan.
  • Tracing Immigrant Origins Wiki article. Originally in paper from Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. [[Tracing immigrant origins : research outline at FS Library book 929.1 F21ro; film 6105293(*)]]. Introduces the principles, search strategies, and various record types you can use to identify an immigrant ancestor’s original hometown.