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[[Tracing Immigrant Origins]] can help you identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown. It introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use. [[Image:{{drangnach}}]] From 1880 to 1920 more than twenty-five million immigrants, many from Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Ukraine, were attracted to the United States and Canada. | [[Tracing Immigrant Origins]] can help you identify an immigrant ancestor's original hometown. It introduces the principles, search strategies, and additional record types you can use. [[Image:{{drangnach}}]] From 1880 to 1920 more than twenty-five million immigrants, many from Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Ukraine, were attracted to the United States and Canada. | ||
The Stumpp book list of emigrants can be found at this site [http://odessa3.org/collections/ships/link/sindex.txt Stumpp Transcription list] | The Stumpp book list of emigrants can be found at this site [http://odessa3.org/collections/ships/link/sindex.txt Stumpp Transcription list]. | ||
== Finding the | == Finding the Place of Origin == | ||
Records that generally provide the country of origin include the U.S. censuses beginning in 1850, Canadian censuses, biographies, death records, obituaries, naturalization declarations or petitions, pre-1883 passenger lists, and military records. These records do not usually list the exact town that the ancestor came from. | Records that generally provide the country of origin include the U.S. censuses beginning in 1850, Canadian censuses, biographies, death records, obituaries, naturalization declarations or petitions, pre-1883 passenger lists, and military records. These records do not usually list the exact town that the ancestor came from. | ||
Before you can effectively search the records of another country, you need to know the name of the city or town your immigrant ancestor came from. Clues about an ancestors' town of origin are found in various sources, including diaries and other records in your family's possession. You may find the town of origin in family and local histories, church records, obituaries, marriage records, death records, tombstones, passports (particularly since the 1860s), passenger lists (particularly those after 1883), and applications for naturalization. | Before you can effectively search the records of another country, you need to know the name of the city or town your immigrant ancestor came from. Clues about an ancestors' town of origin are found in various sources, including diaries and other records in your family's possession. You may find the town of origin in family and local histories, church records, obituaries, marriage records, death records, tombstones, passports (particularly since the 1860s), passenger lists (particularly those after 1883), and applications for naturalization. | ||
=== Finding Place of Origin in Russia === | |||
The first step in researching your Russian-German genealogy is to determine specifically where in Russia your ancestors lived. You may be able to find out the town your ancestor came from by talking with older family members. The family may have documents concerning the place of origin, such as old passports, birth or marriage certificates, journals, photographs, letters, or a family Bible. Even if something is written in German or Russian, it may contain valuable information. Get help in reading it. Other sources are found in local libraries and courthouses and at the Family History Library, including naturalization applications and petitions, obituaries, county histories, marriage and death certificates, and American passenger lists of arrivals and European lists of departures. | |||
You will want to verify the spelling and location of places where your family lived. A good listing of German colonies in Russia is: | |||
*Armand Bauer's "Place Names of German Colonies in Russia and the Romanian Dobrudja" found on pages 130-183 of Richard Sallet's ''Russian German Settlements in the United States'' (Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974). (FHL book [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/15095 973 F2rs]) | |||
=== Tracing Families Back to Germany === | |||
Despite difficulties in accessing records in Russia, it is often possible to trace your lineage to Germany and back to the early 1600s. In some cases where vital records are unavailable or have significant gaps, it is extremely difficult to establish a line of ancestors through the 1800s in Russia. Nevertheless, even in these cases there may be family sources or printed sources that enable you to do so; older family members may remember several generations back or such information may be recorded in a family Bible or other family documents. | |||
The German colonists who settled in Russia came mostly from southern Germany, principally Württemberg. If you can determine the specific place where the family originated you can trace the family back using German records. In many cases, however, the colonists spent a generation in Poland before moving on to Russia. If you can determine the place in Poland where the family lived, clues necessary to trace the family back to Germany may be found in the Polish records. Many of these records are available at the Family History Library. | |||
The following work is of great value to those researching Germans in Russia. It lists most of the original German colonists who came to Russia and usually indicates their place of origin in Germany. | |||
*Stumpp, Karl. ''The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862''. Tübingen: Karl Stumpp, 1972 (FHL book [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/248613 943 W2sk 1978]). | |||
::This book includes excellent information in English on the history of Germans in Russia and lists of German emigrants to Russia. For genealogists, the most valuable part of the book is the alphabetical lists of emigrants. This list gives each emigrant's surname, given name, age (sometimes), place in Germany they left, year of migration, and destination in Russia. To view this list online, see [http://odessa3.org/collections/ships/link/sindex.txt Odessa: Die Deutsche Auswanderung Nach Russland 1763-1862]. More information is found in the book. | |||
== Emigration Records == | == Emigration Records == | ||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/734631 Stammblätter, 1939-1945] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/734631 Stammblätter, 1939-1945] | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/252070 Stammblätter, 1940-1941] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/252070 Stammblätter, 1940-1941] | ||
The Stumpp book list of emigrants can be found at this site [http://odessa3.org/collections/ships/link/sindex.txt Stumpp Transcription list]. | |||
=== Departure Records === | === Departure Records === | ||
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*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 (Aisch): Verlag Degener, 1995. | *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 (Aisch): Verlag Degener, 1995. | ||
Village coordinators coordinate the gathering of information and the compiling of databases for specific Germanic villages in Russia. To learn more, see [[Germans from Russia Archives and Libraries#Village Coordinators|Germans from Russia Archives and Libraries]]. | |||
Some emigrant groups may have brought their records with them when they left Russia. Thus, the vital records of a few of these colonies, especially Mennonite colonies, might be in collections in the United States and Canada. If you are looking for Mennonite records, check with the Mennonite congregation in North America where the family first settled. | Some emigrant groups may have brought their records with them when they left Russia. Thus, the vital records of a few of these colonies, especially Mennonite colonies, might be in collections in the United States and Canada. If you are looking for Mennonite records, check with the Mennonite congregation in North America where the family first settled. | ||
North Dakota received many immigrant German-Russians from the Kherson provinces of Russia. Their pattern of settlement in this country is directly related to their pattern of settlement in Russia. Catholic families from the Beresan region and many from Crimea settled in Stark county, North Dakota. Catholic families from the Katschurgan and Leibenthal regions settled in Emmons, Logan, and McIntosh counties. In many cases, the original Catholic immigrants recorded their heritage in the records of the new Catholic parish in North Dakota. When researching the genealogy of German-Russian Catholic families from North Dakota, it is important to determine where they originally settled in North Dakota. The records of the Catholic parish in that place will then help in tracing your ancestry. Priests are usually happy to help those who wish to research the records in person and may help by correspondence. Remember that in some cases the records of one parish may have been consolidated with those of another parish. For those whose ancestors settled in Stark county, considerable research has already been done and the information written up. | North Dakota received many immigrant German-Russians from the Kherson provinces of Russia. Their pattern of settlement in this country is directly related to their pattern of settlement in Russia. Catholic families from the Beresan region and many from Crimea settled in Stark county, North Dakota. Catholic families from the Katschurgan and Leibenthal regions settled in Emmons, Logan, and McIntosh counties. In many cases, the original Catholic immigrants recorded their heritage in the records of the new Catholic parish in North Dakota. When researching the genealogy of German-Russian Catholic families from North Dakota, it is important to determine where they originally settled in North Dakota. The records of the Catholic parish in that place will then help in tracing your ancestry. Priests are usually happy to help those who wish to research the records in person and may help by correspondence. Remember that in some cases the records of one parish may have been consolidated with those of another parish. For those whose ancestors settled in Stark county, considerable research has already been done and the information written up. | ||
== Russian Germans in the United States and Canada == | |||
In North America, the Germans from Russia were attracted to the great prairies, which were not unlike the steppes of Russia where they had been farming for generations. Volga Germans settled mostly in Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. The greatest concentration of Black Sea Germans is in the Dakotas. German Mennonites from Russia settled in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, California, and Manitoba. Most Volhynian Germans settled in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Western Canada.<ref>The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Germans From Russia: Genealogical Research Outline," Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1999.</ref> | |||
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