Germans from Russia Compiled Genealogies: Difference between revisions

A special type of local history book called a [[German_Genealogy#Village_Lineage_Books|village lineage book]] [''Ortssippenbuch''] is available for many towns in Germany and a few towns in Russia. These give extensive genealogical information on almost all inhabitants of the town. Examples of such books for Germans from Russia are:  

Gnadenberg Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas). ''Family Register, ca. 1811-ca. 1940 of Gnadenberg Mennonite Church, Whitewater, Kansas''. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978. (FHL film 1036239 item 4; computer number 283406). Text in German. Register begun in Michalin and Fransthal in Volhynia (now in the Ukraine) including births, marriages, deaths, and German place of origin.  

Fieß, Christian. ''Chronik und Familienbuch der Gemeinde Mannsburg, Kreis Akkerman, Bassarabien, 1863-1964'' (History and List of Families in the German Community of Mannsburg, Bessarabia, 1863-1964). Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien. Schriftenreihe B; Nr. 5. Mühlacker: Heimatmuseum der Deutschen aus Bessarabien, 1981. (FHL book 947.71/M2 D4fc.) Text in German.  

''Bergthal Gemeinde Buch'' (Parish Book): ''Consisting of Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, 1843-1876 . . ., Chortitzer Gemeinde Buch Indexes for Volumes Started in 1878, 1887 and 1907, Passenger Lists, 1874-1880 of Mennonite Immigrants to Manitoba . . ., the 1881 Federal Census Data on Residents in Manitoba Mennonite Communities''. Steinbach, Manitoba: Hanover Steinbach Historical Society, 1993. (FHL book 971.27 F2b). Family-by-family births, baptisms, marriages and deaths. Includes separate indexes to Bergthal and Chorititz, and combined index to Quebec passenger lists and 1881 census.  

Genealogical collections and village lineage books are listed in the Place Search of the ''Family History Library Catalog'' under headings such as:  

For further information see the “Genealogy” sections of the ''Germany Research Outline'' (34061), ''Canada Research Outline'' (34545), ''United States Research Outline'' (30972), and the state and provincial outlines where your ancestor settled.  

Germans from Russia village home pages (computer Internet sites), village coordinators, and e-mail lists of individual family history researchers are described in the “Archives and Libraries” computer section of this outline under American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR).