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Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm. This Wiki page describes the major repositories of genealogical and historical records and sources for researching German-speaking people from Russia. | Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm. This Wiki page describes the major repositories of genealogical and historical records and sources for researching German-speaking people from Russia. | ||
Although, the records you need may be in a foreign archive or library, the [[Family History Library|Family History Library may]] have a microfilm copy of them. Check the [https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog '' | Although, the records you need may be in a foreign archive or library, the [[Family History Library|Family History Library may]] have a microfilm copy of them. Check the [https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog ''FamilySearch Catalog'' ]before writing to or visiting archives in the Commonwealth of Independent States (hereafter CIS) or Germany. | ||
If you plan to visit one of these repositories, check their website, or contact the organization and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, fees, and whether they allow visitors. For further information about the collection try looking in the [https://www.familysearch.org/ ''FamilySearch.org'' Author/Title Search ]under the archive name for inventories and registers. You could also try the[https://www.familysearch.org/ ''FamilySearch.org'' Place Search] under the place where the archive is located and the topic “Archives and Libraries.” | If you plan to visit one of these repositories, check their website, or contact the organization and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, fees, and whether they allow visitors. For further information about the collection try looking in the [https://www.familysearch.org/ ''FamilySearch.org'' Author/Title Search ]under the archive name for inventories and registers. You could also try the[https://www.familysearch.org/ ''FamilySearch.org'' Place Search] under the place where the archive is located and the topic “Archives and Libraries.” | ||
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Deutsche Zentralstelle für Genealogie<br> Postfach 274<br> D-04002 Leipzig<br> GERMANY | Deutsche Zentralstelle für Genealogie<br> Postfach 274<br> D-04002 Leipzig<br> GERMANY | ||
[[Image:Stuttgart Institut Auslandsbeziehungen.jpg|border|right|250px|Stuttgart Institut Auslandsbeziehungen.jpg]]'''''German Foreign Institute''''' [''Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Stuttgart)''] between 1917 and 1945 created a parish register inventory, genealogies, biographies, and a dozen alphabetical index card files listing names of Germans from Russia, their settlements, and showing many of their places of origin. In 1987 this collection became part of the Federal Archive [Bundesarchiv] in Koblenz. The Family History Library has microfilms of these card files. They are described in the Author/Title Search of the '' | [[Image:Stuttgart Institut Auslandsbeziehungen.jpg|border|right|250px|Stuttgart Institut Auslandsbeziehungen.jpg]]'''''German Foreign Institute''''' [''Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Stuttgart)''] between 1917 and 1945 created a parish register inventory, genealogies, biographies, and a dozen alphabetical index card files listing names of Germans from Russia, their settlements, and showing many of their places of origin. In 1987 this collection became part of the Federal Archive [Bundesarchiv] in Koblenz. The Family History Library has microfilms of these card files. They are described in the Author/Title Search of the ''FamilySearch Catalog'' under Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Stuttgart). Many are also cited in the appropriate Germans from Russia Wiki pages. The archival material from this collection is now at: | ||
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The list of computer sources is growing rapidly. Most of the information is available at little or no cost. The following sites are important gateways linking you to many more network and bulletin board sites. Addresses for network sites are subject to frequent changes. For a list of Internet sites for general United States research see the [[United States Archives and Libraries|United States Archives and Libraries]] Wiki article. Germans from Russia family historians have been especially active in sharing information by computer network. To get started with computer network research contact: | The list of computer sources is growing rapidly. Most of the information is available at little or no cost. The following sites are important gateways linking you to many more network and bulletin board sites. Addresses for network sites are subject to frequent changes. For a list of Internet sites for general United States research see the [[United States Archives and Libraries|United States Archives and Libraries]] Wiki article. Germans from Russia family historians have been especially active in sharing information by computer network. To get started with computer network research contact: | ||
*FamilySearch Internet http://www.FamilySearch.org Access the | *FamilySearch Internet http://www.FamilySearch.org Access the FamilySearch Catalog™, Ancestral File™, International Genealogical Index®, SourceGuide™, lists of Family History Centers, family history related web sites, and lists of researchers interested in similar genealogical topics. Learn about and order Family History Library publications. | ||
*Cyndi Howell's List - Germans from Russia http://www.CyndisList.com/germruss.htm More links to other genealogical sites than anywhere else. Includes other Internet sites, mailing lists, people and families, news groups, publications, transcriptions of records, societies, villages and colonies. | *Cyndi Howell's List - Germans from Russia http://www.CyndisList.com/germruss.htm More links to other genealogical sites than anywhere else. Includes other Internet sites, mailing lists, people and families, news groups, publications, transcriptions of records, societies, villages and colonies. | ||
*Federation of East European Family History Societies http://feefhs.org/ Resource guide to archive and library addresses, research library, maps on computer, articles, newsletters, surname listings, and links to Internet publications. | *Federation of East European Family History Societies http://feefhs.org/ Resource guide to archive and library addresses, research library, maps on computer, articles, newsletters, surname listings, and links to Internet publications. | ||