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Journal 1990s

 

Journal 1990s

  • Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 1990): A 1909 Russian 10 ruble banknote is pictured on the cover. Articles found in this issue: "Midwifery Tour of Russia, October 1989" by Joyce E. (Sterkel) Sutley; "Bukovina Chronology in the Context of European History" by Sophie A. Welisch; "Family of Leon and Marie Loy (1912)" by Sophie A. Welisch; " I Could Write a Book As Big As a House!'A Soviet German Emigre Remembers Life Under Stalin" by Anonymous, translated and edited by Timothy J. and Rosalinda Kloberdanz; "Village Life" by Alex Bauer; Josephina Ammon Widmer; "Out of the Russian Steppe: Alexander Bier" by Verna Wood; "History of the Volga German Drummer Dove" by Roberto Kornshun Bierig; "Royalty Comes Hunting and I Get Spanked" by Olga Schmidt Bauer, a humorous anecdote; "A Visit in the Native Region of the Traveling Masters of the Shovel'" excerpt from a Polish newspaper translated by Richard Rye and Robert Hattemer; "A Traditional Wedding" by Barbara Kloster; "Jacob and Marie Steinbrecher" by Katherine Elizabeth Steinbrecher Behm, as told to her daughter-in-law Gayle Behm; and Book Reviews.

  • Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 1990): A picture of Franz and Marie Elisabeth Ullrich is on the cover. This accompanies the article "The Ties That Bind The Dinkelacker Letters" by William Seibel; "The Beginning of an Odyssey" by Ella and Werner K. Wadewitz, an account of a Wasemiller family reunion in Uzbekistan; "Ethnic Women Homesteading on the Plains of North Dakota" by H. Elaine Lindgren; "Sufferings of the First German Colonists During the First Two Decades, 1764 to 1784" by John Erbes; "The Trek of 1921-1922" by Glenn Mueller; "Village Life" by Alex Bauer; "Resting in Peace" by V. Krasnovsky, about the German Cemetery in Moscow; "Kukkus Once ... And Today" by Reinhold Keil; "Donations to AHSGR Library and Archives"; "A Brief History of the Creation of the German Colonies on the Volga" by Arthur E. Flegel; "I Am Smart and I Can Prove It" by Olga Schmidt Bauer, a humorous anecdote; "Current Status of German Villages in the Volga Region" by Theresa Daehn; "The Graefenstein-Fordson Tractor Story" by Arthur E. Flegel; "New Additions to AHSGR Library" by Frances Amen and Mary Rabenberg.

  • Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall 1990): This issue contains the reports and pictures of the 21st annual convention which was held in Sacramento, California. The full texts of the following speeches are also given: "The Past Is Yet to Come But the Future May Never Happen" by Dr. Larry W. Metzler; "The Aussiedler and Their Stories" by Jo Ann Kuhr; "Kaleidoscopes" by Venita Schneider; "The Germans From Russia Heritage Collection at North Dakota State University and My Visions for the Future" by Michael M. Miller; "New Insights From Dark Places: Recent Developments in Volga German Family Research" by Richard Scheuerman; "Bazaars and Fairs in the Black Sea Area" by Alexander Dupper; "We Honor Our Heritage Through Faith" by the Rev. P. W. Bergstrasser.

  • Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 1990): Alice Buchholz's painting "The Farm of Wilhelm Boehnert in Solodyri, Volhynia, 1931" graces the cover of this issue, which contains the following articles: "A Farm in Solodyri" by Richard Benert; "The Population of Volga German Settlements in Late Nineteenth Century Russia: A Source Based on Religious and Settlement Data From the 1897 Census of the Russian Empire" by Richard H. Rowland; "Bukovina-German Women in Social Perspective" by Sophie A. Welisch; "From Russian Sables to the Orient Express" by Anna Kroeker Thiesen, Convention 1990, which includes "Maps and Your Family History," Starting a Village Research Group," "Coordinating Research Efforts With a Village Data Base," "German Settlements in Poland and Volhynia," and "Grandma's Kitchen."

  • Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1991): The cover photo is of the Catholic Church in Karlsruhe (Heimatkalender der Deutschen aus Bessarabien). Articles: "The Soviet Catholic Church During the New Economic Policy and the Stalinist Terror: Selected Texts Dealing With the Soviet Germans," by Rev. Christopher Zugger; "Early Volga German Settlement List," by David F. Schmidt; "Piecing the Past Together: The Important Role of Folklore in Family History Research, " by Timothy J. Kloberdanz; "Down Die Linie,' Caucasian Frontier," by William Seibel.

  • Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 1991): A picture of the July 15, 1990 first communion of a son of Lukasz Balak adorns the cover. Articles: "Pojana Mikuli Today," by Oren Windholz; "Autobiography of Alexander Schwindt," translated by Almena Kniss Bernhardt; "Volga German-Russians in Minnesota," by Carol Halverson; "From Bukovina to the Great Plains," by Rev. Steve Parke; "Germans Among Us From Russia via the Dakotas to Lodi," by Walter Kiesz; "Josef Weber Titular Archbishop," by Norbert Gaschler, translated by Sophie A. Welisch; "Guarding the Czar's Caucasian Frontier," by William Seibel; "Julian vs. Gregorian Calendar," by Arthur E. Flegel; "Review," by Alexander Dupper.

  • Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 1991): This issue contains