Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 2001): On the cover: AHSGR Presidents Nicholas Bretz and Harley Behm with AHSGR Storytelling Contest winners: Barbara Wagner, Ken Kauk, and Connie Geringer Amstrong. Articles: "Preserving Our Cultural Heritage: Prize-Winning Entries from the 2001 Storytelling Contest" by Timothy J. and Rosalinda Kloberdanz; "How An Englisher Told The Family’s Story" by Barbara Christy Wagner; "A Ghost in the Cemetery" by Connie Geringer Armstrong; "A Tale of Two Tales and Papa" by Kenneth D. Kauk; "Grandma’s Story" by Connie Geringer Armstrong; "With A Sense of Humor" by Charlotee J. Lindsay; "Prairie Patterns" by Shirley (Ding) Meier; "The Letters" by Kathryn Taylor O’Malley; "Memories of Grandma’s Care" by Stanley R. Rall; "The Right Stuff" by Gerald F. Schmidt; "The Crossing The Ethnic Barrier With Song" by Herman Wittman.

Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer 2003):  On the cover:  Hattie Plum WIlliams Collection No. 11 (Mothers with small babies sitting on porch.).  Articles:  "The Moscow Consistorial District" translated by Roswita Niessner; "The Memoirs of Dr. Georg Heinrich Hartwig; Insights Into Russia" by Wilmer A. Harms, M.D.; "The Life of the German Woman in Russia" by Leona Pfeifer; "The Convoluted Case of Gerhard Harder" by Duane Schrag; "Jabob (Poltowitz) Graber" by Duane Schrag; "Volga; What Worries the Immigrants" translated by Rick Rye; "Leipzig Bessarabia" translated by Arthur Flegel; "Culm (Kulm)" translated by Arthur Flegel.

Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 2003):  On the cover:  Artwork by Mark McLean for the 2003 AHSGR Convention in Yakima, WA.  Articles:  "1920 Extraction of Germans from Russia" by Gene Jenkins;  "First Executed, Then Rehabilitated" by Marianne Long; "What Was Life Like in Siberia For Descendents of Deportees?" by Peter Penner; "Kautz Genealogy on CD ROM" by D. Michael Frank; "Recent Microfilm Acquisitions from the Odessa Archives and Related Mennonite Research" by Tim Janzen; "From the Russian Steppe to the Pacific Northwest:  The Germans from Russia in Portland, Oregon" by Steven H. Schreiber; "Finding Germans from Russia on Passenger Ship Lists Using the Internet" by Patrice Miller; "Not All of Our Ancestors Were Saints:  Origins of the Volga Germans" by Brent Mai and Dona Reeves-Marquardt.

Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 2003):  On the cover:  Sleigh ride of German colonists in the Volga Region.  From the Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen.  Articles:  "Schrabgeschiren and Silverware:  The Sixteen Green Letters and One Brown Bible" by Richard D. Scheuerman; "Meine Reise nach Rohrbach (My Trip to Rohrbach)" by Eduard Weiss and translated by Arthur E. Flegel;  "Ein Besuch in Kulm (A Visit to Kulm, Bessarabia)" by Emil Werner and translated by Arthur E. Flegel.  Winners of the 2003 Storytelling Contest:  "The Witch in the Woods"  -1st Place by Linda (Darr) Hasse; "Granpa's Violin"  -2nd Place by Judy Frothinger; "Terror at the Station:  A Little Boy Travels from Russia to America"  -3rd Place by Karen Penner; "Broken Plates"  - Honorable Mention by Barbara Jo Guilford; and "Sugar Beet Syrup Story...From Field to Kettle"  - Honorable Mention by Howard S. Guenther.

Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2004):  On the cover:  Early German-speaking churches helped the Germans from Russia keep many Old Country ties alive.  View of Zion Congregational Church in Ritzville, Washington. (Photo by Timothy J. Kloberdanz).  Articles:  "First Executed, Then Rehabilitated" by Marianne Long; "The Harsh Voice of Flight and Banishment" by Alita Frank and translated by Gerda A. Fadden; "The Germans from Russia: A Viable Ethnic Group or a Fading Phenomenon?" by Timothy J. Kloberdanz

Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 2004):  On the cover:  Our ancestors traveled from Russia using a variety of conveyances, as well as by foot over long distances, to reach their destinations in the Americas.  Articles:  "The Situation of the Germans in the Countries of Middle-East, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe" by Dr. Horst Waffenschmidt;  "House Owner List for Election Gatherings-Data from the Village of Grimm in 1889";  "The Memorable Travel Experience of Johann and Julianne (Pflugrath) Flagel" as told to Arthur Flegel by Julianne Flegel;  "Tartars, Cossacks, Kalmyks" by Mildred Pelkey;  "Gleanings from the Trails--The Mennonites in Kansas Success of the colony in the 'Vale of Peace' in the Arkansas Valley:  Their habits of life and ideas of civil and military authority" from the Topeka (Kansas) Commonwealth;  Book Review--Die Deutschen in der Moskauer Gesellschaft:  Symbiose und Konflikte (1494-1941) by Victor Donninghaus.

Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Fall 2004):  On the cover:  The cornucopia, a symbol of nature's bounty, was selected by the hosting California District Council as the symbol of the 35th Annual International AHSGR Convention held in Modesto, California, in July 2004.  Articles:  "Opening Speech for 2004 AHSGR Convention" by Director General Klaus Pöhle, German Federal Ministry of the Interior; "History of Russian Germans: Records of the State Archives of Odessa Region (SAOR)" by Lilia G. Belousova; "Black Sea German Settlers:  From First Arrival to First Departure" by Sergei Yelizarov, Ph.D; "Materials on the History of the Volga Germans in the Archives of the Saratov District" by Dr. Alexsey V. Voronejhstev; "Always a Greener Pasture: Memmonite Settlements in the Western United States, 1885-1940" by Kevin Enns-Rempel; Book Review--The Glückstalers of New Russia and North America: A Bicentennial Collection of History, Genealogy and Folklore by Margaret (Aman) Freeman.

Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Winter 2004): On the Cover: Candleabra in wreath with the issue theme, "Heritage & Traditions." Articles from presentations given at the 2004 Convention: "Wedding Customs in Warenburg at About 1912" by Richard Kissling; "The German Brotherhood - 272 Years of History from the Volga River in Russia, USA, Canada, South America, and Siberia" by Paul Koehler; "Understanding Ethnic Cleansing in the Soviet Union - Historical and Literary Approaches" by Samuel D. Sinner. An additional article, not from Convention: "Die Weisse Frau" by Duane Schrag. Storytelling Contest Winners from 2004: First Place winner, "Back Home on the Volga, 1937" by Maria Appelhans; Second Place winner, "Ellis Island - 1893" by Mrs. Ella M. Resse; Third Place winner, "Dreams, Hexes and Unusual Happenings" by David D. Ruff. 

Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring 2005): On the Cover: One of seventy-three photographs from the Saratov Museum of Regional Studies, Saratov, Russia, obtained by John and Sue Groh and donated to the AHSGR Photographs Collection archived in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Articles:  "Photographs from the Saratov Museum Donated by John and Sue Groh" by Henry L. Schmick; "From Puppets of Stalin to Pawns of Hitler & Back Again: Experiences of Soviet Citizens of German Ethnicity During & After the Second World War" by Stephanie Hoffman; "Records of Interest to German Russians in the Saratov Archives" by Dr. Jerome Siebert.

Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer 2005): On the Cover: A Summer Pastoral.  Articles:  Conclusion -"From Puppets of Stalin to Pawns of Hitler & Back Again:  Experiences of Soviet Citizens of German Ethnicity During & After the Second World War" by Stephanie Hoffman; "The Migration of Germans from Russia" by Dr. Lyudmila Koretnikova; "Sampling of Currently Available Resources" by Bonnie Anderson; "A Typical Volga-German Life Story" by Dr. Lyudmila Koretnikova; "Locations of German Russians in Russia and the Availability of Records" by Ilmira Khansvyarova; "Preface of the Inventory of the Archival Collection 1831-'The Collection of Documents on the History and Culture of Germans in the Volga Region (1764-1941),' Engles Archive" by Elizabeth Erina and Victor Herdt; "These Records Can Talk!" by Gerald F. Schmidt; "If Awakened From Her Dream...Correction, Winter 2003" by Gerald F. Schmidt; Photographs from the Saratov Museum donated by John and Sue Groh.

Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Fall 2005) On the cover: A windmill, chosen for the importance of wind and water to the agricultural industry in the state of Oklahoma, the site of the 2005 AHSGR Convention. Nine of the ten articles in this issue are presentations from the 2005 Convention: "AHSGR Can Touch Lives, Even in Russia" by Ed Hoak; "Germans from Russia and the Oklahoma Land Runs" by Dr. Marvin Kroeker; "GRANDMA's Database of Mennonite History" by Jay Hubert; "German-Russian Holocaust Memorial" is a list of family-submitted names of family members who disappeared during the Communist Era in Europe. This list of names was read at a special memorial service held at the Oklahoma City National Memorial; Memorial; "What Does It Mean In Ukraine?" by Inna Stryukova, who also read a poem by JoAnn Klassen entitled "To Those Gone Before Us." (These two pieces were part of the memorial service.); "The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma" by Douglas Hale; "Injustice: When Innocent People Suffer" by Inna Stryukova; "Notes in Their Baggage: Music from Three Countries; The Lahnert Family Legacy" by Beth Simmons. The one article that was not a convention presentation: "About Captain Kuehnen" by Dr. Viktor Krieger and V. G. Korolenko.

Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter 2005) On the cover: A 1940s winter scene in northeastern Colorado with the Sewald grandparents sledding with two of their grandchildren. There are twelve articles in this issue. The first is the address given by Timothy J. Kloberdanz at the 36th International AHSGR Convention, Saturday evening banquet in Oklahoma City, entitled "Honoring the Past, Preparing for the Future: Germans from Russia in the 21st Century"; "A Man Who Truly Lived His Heritage: A Tribute to Lawrence A. Weigel" by Rosalinda A. Kloberdanz and Timothy J. Kloberdanz; The next eight articles are from the Sixth Annual Storytelling Contest presentations at the 36th International AHSGR Convention: First Place Winner, "The Grandfather I Learned to Know" by Marianne K. Sauter Long; Second Place Winner, "The Arm in the Barn" by Donald C. Schenk, M.D.; Third Place Winner (Tie), "The Teakettle" by Allyn Stangle Elliott; Third Place Winner (Tie), "Maybe, This is the Final Word on Buxtehui" by Gerald F. Schmidt. The following four each received Honorable Mention: "My Early Experience in the Sugar Beet Fields" by Kenneth L. Koehler; "Eva's Childhood Journey" by Elizabeth A. Meade; "John Christian Penner" by Christopher Chance Penner Parrish; "Georg Hagen's Life and Death: Connection to Earth, Water, Fire and Wind" by Karen Suderman Penner. "One Hundred Years of Russian-German Missions in India: The Mennonite Brethren of Andhra Pradesh" by Paul D. Wiebe, Ph.D.; "The Mennonites Return to Ukraine and the Molotschna Bi-Centennial" by Wilmer Harms, M.D.

Journal, Vol. 29, No.1 (Spring 2006) On the cover: The monument at the old cemetery in Novyi Vasyugan, a village near Tomsk, Russia, to honor the victims of Stalinist repressions, dedicated in 1997. A young girl offers flowers at the monument. There are six articles in this issue: "Narym Chronicle 1930-1945: The Tragedy of the Special Population," a review by A. Fedorova / Translated by Richard Rye. A companion to the first article is titled, "Let No One Dream of This" by A. Shulbaeva / Translated by Julia Troussova; "From the Volga to the Platte: The True Story of Heinrich Jurk" by Klaus Dieter Yurk; "Grandmother's Aprons" by Thelma Kinderknecht Mills is a presentation given by Thelma and her daughter, Theresa Sheaffer, at the 36th International AHSGR Convention in Oklahoma City in 2005; "The Anhalt Family of Ukraine and the Volga" by Adam Anhalt; "Volhynia: Thirty-Two Pictures of the Old Homeland" by Friedrich Rink / Translated by Dona Reeves-Marquardt is an anniversary article. This article first appeared in 1976 in AHSGR Work Paper No. 22. This is the 30th anniversary of its original publication.

Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2006) On the cover: The "Liberty Loan Parade" in Lincoln, Nebraska April 6, 1918. This issue contains four articles. "The Immigration to America and Its Impact on the Ethnic Identity and World View of the Volga Germans in Russia" by Timothy J. Kloberdanz; "Justice for All?: What an Oklahoma Internment Camp Meant to German-Americans" by Jerry Bohnen. This article is from a presentation given by Jerry Bohnen at the 36th International AHSGR Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma August 20, 2005. "Escape From the USSR, 1928" by Arthur E. Flegel; "The Volga Germans in the Federal State of Paraná, Brazil" by Ayrton Gonçalves Celestino, Curitiba, Brazil. This article is from a presentation given by Ayrton Gonçalves Celestino at the International Genealogical Conference, "Discover Your Roots to Europe," held in Regina, Saskatchewan July 2002.

Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Fall 2006) On the cover: The newly renovated and constructed Engels Archive in Engels, Russia. This issue contains four articles. "Rebirth of the