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06/19/06

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The great thing about genealogy is that most of the work is already done. All you have to do is find it! Here are some sites that you can use to begin your own Germans from Russia genealogy search.

bulletHarold Ehrman's Web Page

The best place to get started and to visit frequently when working on German-Russian genealogy.

bullet Odessa Searches

Search of files at http://www.odessa3.org/collections.html. This is the best tools I have found for locating surnames in the Pixel Library database.

bullet Odessa Library Index

There are many good files here that are worth looking through, however, learning to use the search tool above it the best way to get the most out of this library.

bulletRootsWeb: Database Index

This is another of my favorite places to go to dig up information. It searches several important databases in one step.

bulletSearching Ellis Island Database in One Step

The easiest and fastest way to search the Ellis Island database. Stanly has also added several new one-step search tools.

bullet Passenger List Index

This will help you locate immigration dates.

bullet Janet's Germans from Russia Research

More passenger lists.

bulletPassenger Lists On The Internet

Several good links to passenger lists.

bullet Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

There are many passenger lists here.

bulletDescendants of Walth

Chart of early Walth's in Russia.

bullet SDGENWEB - Archives Search

Allows global search of records that are available at SDGENWEB project.

bulletNDGENWEB - Archives Search

Allows global search of records that are available at NDGENWEB project.

bulletUSGenWeb Archives

List links to the search pages that are available for most states.

bulletUSGenweb Archives Search

Allows global Boolean search of records that are available for almost all states. This is an excellent way to see what is available in all the archives however I find that going to the state site brings up items that get missed here.

bullet WWW.REMMICK.ORG

Information about Hieb's and Dockter's and other families.

bullet Four Generations of Descendants of Adam Hieb

An excellent Hieb page.

bullet Russia Genealogy Links

There are several very good links on this page.

bullet FamilySearch.com Free Genealogy Software from LDS Church

This is outstanding, free, easy to use full featured and reliable.

bullet Hosmer SD, Centennial Book, 1887-1987

This document is a wealth of information. Being able to search it with a computer makes it even better than a hard copy except for the lack of page numbers.

bullet Eureka SD, Centennial Book, 1887-1987

More great information about the German -Russians families in South Dakota.

bullet Leola SD, Centennial Book, 1884-1984

Still even more information on families in this area.

bullet The Weitz Family Line

Excellent information about the causes for German migrations.

bullet STEVAHN FAMILY HOMEPAGE Germans from Russia

The grandmother of this webmaster of this web site is Christina Guthmiller. The he is a 5th cousin. It includes photographs and a link to a very well documented ancestry.com database.

bullet Ted's Photographic's

A history of photography. Knowing more about the history of photography may help you judge the age of your old photographs.

bullet The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia

An excellent and very touching article about the Germans from Russia in North Dakota originally printed in the "Bismarck Tribune".

bullet South Dakota Birth Record Search

Births were not recorded until 1905 and the database only has births that are 100 years old. How did they do it? Late birth registrations! This can be helpful.

bulletGERMANNA COLONY HISTORY

A link to David Stevens' German heritage.

bullet Guthmiller Genealogy

A short Guthmiller page that is part of a larger genealogy

bullet Minnesota Historical Society Death Certificate Search

Database index to deaths in Minnesota from 1908 to 1996.

bullet South Dakota Cemetery Records

Links to all the sites on the internet that have South Dakota cemetery records.

bullet Glueckstal Colonies Research Association

A nonprofit organization researching family histories of the German colonists living in the Black Sea colonies of Glückstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, Kassel, and their daughter colonies.

 

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