1767 List of original settlers, obtained from from Saratov archive record group 407, inventory 2, file 1276

Extracts from 1798 census

List of villages in Canton Kukkus with suggested reading list and map of region

List of village inhabitants, estimated by Ursula Armstrong to have been extracted from a 1912 letter.

Settlement List of Jurisdiction and Place of Former Residence on 1764, translated from Russian. Donated by Gearhart Weber

Births in Tarlyk (1795-1811) donated by Dodie Rotherham

Central California Chapter Records of Laub 1867-1898

Hand-drawn map of village

Village Research Coordinator reports 1995, 1996, 1997

List of villages in Canton Kukkus with suggested reading list and map of region

Information on Gottlieb Goeringer family from village

List of heads of household in 1857 census for Lauwe. Compiled by Vlad Soshnikov of RAGAS.

Correspondence between Helen Bernice Madden and Terry Sterkel regarding village research

Extracts from 1798 census for Galka and Stephan parishes documenting individuals who moved between villages. See Galka or Stephan for entire file.

Newspaper article in German regarding famine in village

List of villages in Canton Kamenka with suggested reading list and map of region

EWZ 50 Record for Andreas Holzmann born August 18, 1913 2pg German text

1848 Village history and description

Village Research Coordinator report, 1996

Church information on Georg Peter

Gestorbene list for 1830-1833 1 pg. Donated by Arthur Flegel.

1848 Village history and description

Excerpt from Heimatkalender der Bessarabiandeutschen, 1984, containing 1848 description and history of village

Geschichte der Gemeinde Lichtental von 1834 bis 1909 und 1934. Donated by H.D. Wildermuth

Commemorative Narrative Lichtental. Termination Record. Short Account of the Development, Life and Death of A German Colony In South Bessarabia between the Dniester and Pruth Rivers 1834 to 1940. Composed on the Occasion of the first Important Meeting of the Former Lichtental Residents in Kirchberg on the Murr in May 1956 by Headmaster: Karl Roth. English and German text.

A poem from the book, Lichtental by Karl Roth, Konrektor, i.R. translated by Herman D. Wldermuth

April In Bessarabia, from the book Lichtental by Karl Roth, donated by H. D. Wldermuth. English text

A visit in Lichtental from Mitteilungsblatt by Ludwig Layher and translated by Dona Reeves

LICHTENTAL/BESSARABIA--Story of a Swabian Community in Russia, by Karl Roth, Konrector: Asst. Headmaster, retired. English text.

THE NAME OF THE COLONY from Immanuel Wagner's History of the Establishment of the Colony of Sarata, 1822-32. English text

A paper titled Lichental. With Poem Heimatland -Home by Christian Idler, born 1893 in Lichtental. English text.

Personal Buch 1841 14 pgs. Donated by Arthur Flegel. 

Description of village, 1798

Village Coordinator's Report

Sept/Oct 2004 Fourth Issue Days of Yore Newsletter by Thelma Mills

Newsletter December 2004 Issue FIVE