Germans from Russia Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

You will want to verify the spelling and location of places where your family lived. A good listing of German colonies in Russia is:

=== Tracing Families Back to Germany ===

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.

::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.<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>

An in-depth description of United States federal immigration lists is:  

The FHL has the National Archives' microfilmed collection of German documents collected by the Berlin Document Center, which include some Germans from Russia (FHL microfiche [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/540100 6334167]).

Resources about various immigration lists and indexes of German emigrants:

*Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Stuttgart). ''Auswandererkartei der Rußlanddeutschen nach Brasilien: 1870-1940'' (Emigrant index of Russian-Germans in Brazil). Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (FHL film 1552796). Alphabetical name index often showing birthdate, place, deathdate, place, age, spouses, children, religion, homeland, date of emigration, profession, and sources.  

''Heimatortskartei'' (Hometown Index) is an index of Germans from Eastern Europe who returned to Germany for re-settlement in the 20th Century, especially after World War II. These indexes contain names of family members, dates and places of birth, marriage, death, and residence. Each geographical area such as Southeast Europe has its own index. For addresses of organizations with these hometown indexes, see:

*Aberle, George P. Monsignor. ''Pioneers and their Sons''. Bismark, North Dakota: Tumbleweed Press, 1980. (FHl book [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/359400 978.4 D3a])

::Includes histories of Catholic families in and around Stark County, North Dakota. In most cases, these histories trace the direct line two or three generations back through Russia and back to Germany.

::Includes detailed information about the Beresan Catholic colonies. For each colony a list of inhabitants in 1839-1840 is provided with ages, relationships, and places of origin in Germany.

::Includes detailed information in German about the Kuchurgan Catholic colonies near Odessa. It provides lists of settlers for each village with ages, relationships and place of origin in Germany.