Alexanderfeld, North Caucasus

Arthur Flegel

Combined report for Alexanderfeld, Eigenfeld, Friedrichsfeld, Kronental, Kulm, Leipzig, Lillienfeld, Marienbrunn, Markosowka, Rosenfeld, and Tarutino.

My comprehensive resource book of 864 pages entitled "Extended Relationships of the Communities Kulm, Leipzig, Tarutino in Bessarabia, Russia", comprising some 28,500 names and some 6,000 families, has been published and is being distributed by the NDSU Libraries under Michael Miller.

Responding to questions relating to its individual content has kept me quite busy since the book's completion.

My research in association with Bonnie Anderson regarding the German population of the Caucasus, Russia, is ongoing. Unfortunately, the most important ingredient of the desired documentation continues to elude us. However, the interest exhibited by people whose family lines have connections with the Caucasus, especially the northern region, is increasing consistently, and we make every attempt possible to respond to their questions in a helpful manner.

Alexandertal (Neu-Schilling), Saratov, Volga

Alexandertal Web Site

Richard A. Kraus K056

This has been a very light year for Alexandertal. There were only two inquiries. I was able to establish through DNA testing that the Kraus family of Unterdorf was of the same line as the Kraus family of Alexandertal having come there from Schilling, having previously been in Dönhof, having first settled in Stahl-am-Karaman. I still hope that one-day, civil, parish and census records will turn up, but hope recedes as the years go by. There is considerable information on the website listed above.

I am spending most of my time working on the AHSGR German Origins project that can be seen at http://www.ahsgr.org/german_origins.htm .

Alt-Elft, Bessarabia

Ralph Ruff R012 / L

In answer to the query about Village Coordinator work, SOAR has copied all of my work on Alt Elft, Katzbach, Neu Elft, Paris, Dennewitz and Plotgk.

I have had very few inquiries. Usually there are questions about the history of the village. I refer them to Headquarters and the histories that have been translated, plus other material that I had worked on years ago.

Alt-Schilling

Alt-Schilling Web Site

Gary Martens M405

See Schilling for combined report.

Alt-Schwedendorf, Swedish Colonies, Nikolaev, Kherson

Karen Wright

Although I have been village coordinator for just a few weeks, I have worked extensively on this village over the past three years. This is a predominantly Swedish village and the first of the Swedish villages to have been formed along the Dnjepr River in the Ukraine. The value of this village information to German-Russian researchers is to track the German-Russians who married into the Swedish families.

Materials that I have gathered to aid in my research are:

1. Karl Stumpp's book The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862

2. 1942 Village Report 

3. Svenskbysläkter by Jörgen Hedman which traces the Swedish families from Estonia in 1500 through their 150 years of life in Alt-Schwedendorf to their rescue to Sweden in 1929. This book includes church records listing births, deaths and marriages. Extra data on baptisms and confirmation is available by special research. This book covers about 30 family names. Some surnames of interest include Barbas, Busch, Dickhaut, Europaeus, Grassman (Krassman?), Glubrecht, Herman, Hörnberg (Hernberg), Krakovskij, Maskewitz, Portje, Rath, Rjabov, Schilling, Sergis, Stuhlberg and Surov.

A website of great use in understanding the history of this village is found at www.svenskbyborna.com . Click on Canadian site and one can find useful information in English. There is a historical accounting of the life of this village, plus passport photos of those who left for Sweden in 1929 and photographs of the farms in Alt-Schwedendorf in 1929 before they left. The Swedish name for the village is Gammalsvenskby (Old Swedish Village).

Over the next year, I plan to create a Society to reconnect descendants of this village in Canada and the U.S. with their roots and to organize a trip to the Ukraine to visit this village.

Balzer, Saratov, Volga

Balzer Web Site

Wayne Bonner B269

Dr. Darrell Weber W218
Data Manager

Combined report for Balzer and Moor.

Darrell Weber:

Darrell Weber, co-coordinator for Balzer, reports 12 to 15 information requests concerning families who lived in Balzer were received. Information was provided. There were two requests for information concerning surname charts. Information on Grasmick lines was provided.

A computer database in PAF format was developed. The database includes all original settlers families and data from the 1798 census. Also included is some data from the 1857 census and from individual family histories. Some family lines have been connected to the village of Rohrbach in Germany.

He attended a family history conference and learned about use of the Social Security Index and the American census including 1930 census.

Wayne Bonner:

 On my behalf, it was a mixed year for Balzer/Moor research.

No new information has been received from Russia, but research of German church records has found the baptisms of nearly 100 Balzer and Moor first settlers. The biggest "find" was the church records of Huttengesas and Langenselbold that were part of Isenburg in the late 18th Century. An individual copied these records in Germany. The LDS Family History Library does not have a copy. At least 20 Balzer settlers have been found in these records. This has permitted us to trace some of these families back several centuries.

Three Balzer researchers, Bruce Benne, and Diane Bonner, and I enjoyed a joint trip to Salt Lake City in June. We all spent a hectic, but very rewarding seven days stay at the library.

Only one newsletter was issued this year. We hope to publish more next year.

In April, two families now living in Germany who had recently emigrated from Kazakhstan contacted me. They are Balzer descendants. They say that many more are still living in the same town in Kazakhstan. We hope to continue our contact with these people.

We look forward to 2006 with eagerness.

Bangert, Samara, Volga

Paul E. Koehler K287 / L

I had three inquiries this past year for information about some of our ancestors and the village. There are over 5400 entries in the Bangert database.

The most interesting inquiry came from Nikolay Huber of Novosibirsk, Siberia (Novosibirsk is the capital of Siberia and is the 3rd largest city in Russia). Nikolay is a 27-year-old studying for his PhD in mathematics and he is also working as a programmer.

We have put most of his Huber family tree together and I have entered this information into the Bangert database.

Bergdorf, Glückstal, Odessa, Kherson

See Glückstal Colonies Research Association for combined report.

Borodino, Bessarabia

Borodino Web Sites:

Genealogy

History

Judy Remmick-Hubert H048

As always, it's been a busy and productive year.

It appears that more and more descendants of the Borodinians who presently live in Germany are discovering my web site on Borodino / Bess. This is very good news for my web site.

The genealogy just grows every week and I cannot even begin to tell everyone who has been so generous how much others and I appreciate everyone's efforts.

For those who have not visited the site I have different methods of dealing with the family charts. I went into the records and placed them onto the site as-is. There are no corrections, deletions, or speculations. They are what they are. Then I took these names and tried to match children with their parents, and I have clearly marked these as speculations. The next part contains the family charts of people who have sent me their information which may be the same or slightly different from the records. I've then placed all my e-mails and letters under each section. There are names from A to Zzzzz. There are individual family pages with stories, letters, and photographs.

Connected to all of this are my own personal ties to Borodino through both my maternal grandparents Ludwig Michaelovich Hein and Christina Schweikert (Schweigert/Schweickert). Both were born in 1885 in Borodino. I knew them both and heard many stories about Borodino and nearby villages. To add to this, my paternal side was also German-Russian who settled in and around Worms/Odessa, South Russia. By the time I found most of my ancestors, I discovered their lives and migrations cover the area from Bessarabia to Tifilis in the Caucasus Mountains. It has been a great adventure and I have shared much of it with you.

The Remmick home page is located at: http://www.remmick.org/Remmick.Family.Tree .

My husband's families, the HUBERTs, were also German but ended up in and around Temesvar and Arad in Romania. Because of this, I've learned about an area where some of our German-Russians may have stopped for a time before continuing to Russia. My one family, the Pfaffs did just this, before heading to the Odessa area.

I have all kinds of maps. I've lost count. I must have hundreds of photographs.

When you have time, please stop by and take a look. Who knows, you might find ancestors or information of interest.

Brienne, Bessarabia

Victor Knell K082

Combined report for Brienne and Friedensfeld:

I really have nothing to report. I have had no requests for help for the two villages for which I am coordinator. I have been putting my efforts into working on the Society level, am on the board at GRHS, and have several committee positions.

Brunnental, Samara, Volga

Brunnental Web Site

Sherrie Gettman Stahl S621 / L

BRUNNENTHAL/BRUNNENTAL listserv

This year was a busy year again for the village of Brunnental/Brunnenthal. I continue to find new families through my ongoing research using "ancestry.com". I've renewed my subscription for another year, as I've taken on the task of going through each family and adding the Federal Census records for 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930, the WWI Draft Registration records for Aliens (great place to get birthdates), death index information, newspaper articles, Passenger Lists, obituaries, and SSDI records.

I keep thinking that I have found all of the families that emigrated from Brunnental, but continue to find more and more each week. With each family I find, I write letters to living members, asking for additional info and early photos of the families. I currently have 30,000+ names in my Brunnental Database with extensive documentation on each family.

I've put together a comprehensive list of all passenger lists of those from Brunnental. As I find each of these families, I'm paying close attention to the notes regarding "nearest relative in county of origin", and "who they were going to see in US". These have helped me pinpoint where they settled, and often provided clues to relationships to other relatives. This comprehensive passenger listing can be found online at our Brunnental Website. We also have an ongoing "listserv" through Rootsweb, where those who are interested in sharing information about Brunnental can "join", and then receive emails from anyone else who has also joined the list. This is where I post such things as obituaries, passenger lists as I find them or other interesting information about our village. It's a great way to keep in touch with everyone, and only send ONE EMAIL to reach everyone. You can join our listserv on our webpage.

This year David Karber visited Brunnental June 7 - 13, 2005 and sent back some wonderful new photos of the village and surrounding areas. You can read about his trip and see his photos at: http://karber.org/russia05/russia05.htm .

This year we were also able to get some confirmation records for the village of Brunnental. We are currently trying to obtain more records. These records have been translated, and we will be offering them in the future.

We were able to help Waldemar Krist in Germany to locate his SEIBEL relatives in Oregon & Washington this year -- I believe he has scheduled a trip to the US to get together with them.

AND NOW, FOR THE MANY THANK-YOUs --- --Many thanks to Arlene (Lebsack) Rolfs for all her help this year in translation work, and for her help with contacts in Germany. --And a special THANKS to Irma (Greenwald) Waggoner who always sets me straight and has worked endless hours over the past years helping me make sense out of some of these families -- when I get stuck, she is always a help, and I consider her 1/2 of the research team. --Also many thanks to Doris (Eckhardt) Evans, the VC for Frank, who has shared much of her information on "overlapping families" that started out in Frank and moved to Brunnental. She has helped me with many missing details, and shared Surname Chart info with me -- thanks Doris! --And finally, thanks to Steven Schreiber from Portland OR who has shared much valuable information and contacts this past year -- such a talent he is! --And of course, I could not do any of this research without the help of all of the descendants from the village of Brunnental....you are such an enthusiastic group of people, and you keep me motivated to continue to gather the history and genealogy of our village.

Dermanke, Volynsk, Volhynia U

Submitted by Ruth Freehling

Combined report for Dermanke, Kruglik, Marianin, Michalochka.

I am the Village Coordinator for the following villages in Volhynia, now in Ukraine: 

Dermanke, aka Marianovka, Zaslaw District, Volhynia

Kruglik, aka Antonov aka, Zaslaw District, Volhynia

Marianin, Jarun District, Volhynia 

Michalochka, aka Michalutschka, Schepetovka District, Volhynia

Back in 1909 these villages were members of the Novograd Wolynsk Parish of the Lutheran Church.

Since my last report to AHSGR headquarters on August 7, 2004, there was only one activity for me as Village Coordinator. On August 5, 2005, I received a phone call from a man in Quebec, Canada who had received my name from AHSGR headquarters. His ancestral village is Dermanke, so I sent him all the information I had about Dermanke, for which he was very thankful.

In addition, several people wanted to read my family history, "Our Kith & Kin". They appeared to be interested in genealogy, so I told them about AHSGR.

Maybe you already know that a new "American Immigrant Wall of Honor" is being erected in 2006 at Ellis Island. I received the information from: The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., 292 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-7769, so I registered the names of my father and mother, which will appear on the new wall.

Dinkel, Saratov, Volga

Leroy Nikolaisen N017

It has been a slow year, as usual. I had five to six requests for information about Dinkel ancestry. I was able to help four. I received my Nicholausen family chart and some church records. Sharon White has helped me considerably as we exchanged information concerning dates when one of her Warenburg people mixed with my Dinkel people. Irene Bopp has also helped me in finding and forwarding Dinkel birth and death information.

At the convention, we had one person who sought information at our Dinkel / Warenburg table. I have a request from a Viktor Damsen from Germany. Naturally, it is in German and I have had trouble translating. I think I have it translated properly now. All he has to do is understand my very poor English reply. I would appreciate any Dinkel information that anyone might have in his or her records.

Dobrinka, Saratov, Volga

Dobrinka Web Site

Gary Martens M405

I received seven inquires for Dobrinka during the past year. I have been able to provide information to five of these inquires.

The Dobrinka database continues to grow slowly, currently with 1600 people. No new family charts for Dobrinka where received during the year.

Dönhof, Saratov, Volga

Karen Kaiser K247

Richard & Judy Leffler

Report by Dick & Judy Leffler:

The year 2005 was typical as far as requests for genealogy went. We had exactly 10 requests (none from abroad) and answered all of them from the information we have in our database. We had two requests from California, three from Colorado, two from Michigan, and the rest were from Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah. They were researching the surnames of GOMER, REINHARDT, JACOBY, AAB, KAISER, STROMBERGER, KRAUSE, STOLL, STEINBRECHER, SCHWAB, ERBES, DEINES, and SCHELLER. One researcher from Michigan joined AHSGR, and since they do not have a chapter nearby, they chose to join our Northern Colorado chapter.

The best news is that the village census for the years 1834 and 1857 have become available, are in the hands of the translator, and have been ordered by 45 researchers. When they are delivered, the database should grow considerably. It currently has more than 6,800 names in it, and it is growing slowly.

The convention in Oklahoma City was good from the standpoint of speakers. Village night for Dönhof was poorly attended with only one new researcher in attendance. We had approximately ten people stop at the table.

There have been no new surname charts received this year. To my knowledge, there are four charts on order for the surnames WOLF, LIND, ERBES, AND STOLL. Hopefully, these charts will be delivered by the end of this year.

Report by Karen Kaiser:

The year 2005 has been fairly quiet with a few requests about Dönhof and a couple of requests for the Kaiser surname, not necessarily Kaisers from Dönhof. I have also had some requests for surname data from the northern Colorado area.

My husband and I are continuing to work on the German-Russian church that we moved two years ago. We are compiling pictures and family data on immigrants to the Sterling area from Russia. Though most of the families in this area are not from Donhöf, the histories that we can collect will be important for the German-Russian descendants as a whole.

We are also trying to collect German hymnals, bibles, baptism certificates, etc. to place in the church. The church was the first German speaking church in the Sterling area. We have given programs on the history of the church, with our local historical society being the last one given. One of the visitors to the church was a daughter of one of the builders of the church in 1906. The year 2006 will mark the 100th anniversary of the church being built and the beginning of Peace Lutheran. We would invite anyone traveling through our area to visit the church and always welcome any information or items to add to the historical collection we are compiling.

Dreispitz, Saratov, Volga

Dreispitz Web Site

Rachel Smith

I was recently appointed Village Coordinator for Dreispitz. Prior to that, I had been working with several people to help get their family histories started.

My family interest is focused on the surnames of Heinze and Steinle. In the past year, three or four people contacted me and expressed an interest in the Steinle history. I am hopeful that with the start that I have given them, they will proceed with their research and preparation of family history, and forward their findings to me. I am also interested in the surnames Schneider and Meier.

I have completed the following Family Histories: 

1. David G. Heinze and descendants, beginning with my great-grandfather Reinhardt Heinze. 

2. Gottfried and Katherina Elizabeth Diede Steinle and descendants. 

3. Peter Schneider and descendants - family united with Barbara Entz and Katherine Elizabeth Heinze. 

4. The Heinze Roots - starting with my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, born 1717 in Germany. The information regarding these families is updated each year.

Currently I am preparing The Steinle Roots, beginning with my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather born 1730 in Germany. I have my own ancestry for this line completed, and I am corresponding with several others preparing their family history that stems off the Steinle born in 1730.

The Heinzes and Steinles all came to the U.S. from Dreispitz, Russia. I am eager for the Dreispitz Census to become available because I anticipate that will provide many new opportunities for combining my work with the information from others interested in the same family line.

I am still maintaining the Lower Volga Obituaries Project. The work is performed daily by checking newspapers on the Internet, and adding obituaries sent to me by individuals. The obituary information is also being furnished to the SOAR project. I use information from the obituaries to develop new contacts for family history research. I used Ancestry.com's SSDI records to document the Heinzes and Steinles living in Kansas, and a few in Oklahoma and Texas. I have completed the list showing full death dates where available, the names of their spouse/spouses, and their parents. This should be a quick research help.

I also work in our local AHSGR Golden Wheat Chapter library where books may be checked out and research help is provided if needed. We have changed from an "open once a month" to an "open by appointment only" policy hoping this will be more convenient to the researchers. I have a number of research books in my personal library and have prepared a personal index to locate information quickly when using the 1798 Census Books for research. I am also the Registrar for the Golden Wheat Chapter.

Village Night at the AHSGR Oklahoma City convention was a success for the Lower Volga Region villages in the Galka and Stephen parishes. Everyone participated in the combined meeting, learned something new and exchanged addresses with persons doing similar research. I spent time with several who were doing research on their families in Dreispitz. Many compliments were received from those attending.

I have been a member of the National AHSGR since 1997 and am the Chairman of the Lower Volga Obituary Project. In addition to attending the National Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, I have attended the conventions in Wichita, Lincoln, and Denver.

Eckheim, Samara, Volga

Suzanne Heinitz-Dodge

Although I have just been appointed the Village Coordinator for Eckheim, I would like to share with everyone what my plans are for the future. I have begun to compile a surname list, and hope to build an exit list as well. In a few weeks, I plan to have a new web site online, with links to other sites of interest to other Eckheim researchers.

My own interest in Eckheim comes from the fact that my father, Johann Friedrick Heinitz III, his siblings, my grandparents and their siblings, along with numerous great-aunts, great-uncles, and second and third cousins were all born in Eckheim. Until now I've been able to obtain most of my Heinitz genealogy, including the church records from Eckheim. I hope to purchase the Keil and Muhlberger family registers in the coming year. I hope to eventually purchase the entire 1857 census, to be made available to everyone with Eckheim ties. If anyone would like to contribute to that cause, please let me know!

Today in my email, I received a reply to an inquiry I sent to a Russian researcher several weeks ago, which I share with you:

Dear Suzanne,

On colony Eckheim it is possible to perform full and large genealogical research. We shall receive the new orders after January 15, 2006. Once again remind of the order after January 15.

Eigenfeld, North Caucasus

Arthur Flegel

See Alexanderfeld, North Caucasus for combined report.

Enders, Samara, Volga

Randi D. Bolyard

This year was a quiet one for Enders. However, I did get one interesting inquiry from Germany. It was from Elvira Tierbach and came to me via an e-mail to Michael Miller. She was looking for a Christian Ehlert, who had served in the military. He left for the U.S. in 1904 or 1905 and had two sisters, Maria Katharina (March 18, 1884 - 1975) and Maria Lisabeth and a brother, Gottlieb who resettled in Kazakhstan in 1924. The last they had heard from Friedrich was in 1924. The writer is a granddaughter of Maria Katharina and was wondering where Christian went.

I found evidence of a Christian Ehlert from Rosenheim, but not one from Enders. I have written her with this information and posed some further questions. As of this writing, I have not heard any further from her.

For others who have written me, I have given the census data I have on their families. I have all years of census data and I enjoy assisting people in that way.

Erlenbach, Saratov, Volga

Hilda Weber W401 / L

I was very excited to receive the 1857 census of Erlenbach from Ted Gerk this summer. This report is a bit late because I was awaiting the translation from Brent Mai. I realized it was in Russian and was disappointed that my relatives in Germany could not help me with the translation. I met with Brent at the convention in Oklahoma City and he was very encouraging and helpful. I also submitted a copy to Yulia, but have not received any news from her regarding her translation.

I had several inquiries about purchase of the translation and have discussed a charge for the translation with Brent, but have not made a definite decision. I have also received a list of church records for surname Gillig from Teri Helzer and will follow up on this information.

The 1857 Census lists the previous colonies for Erlenbach households. These include Galka, Holstein, Dobrinka, Schwab, Shcherbakovka, Stephan, Grimm, Franzosen, amd Donhof. I also purchased the 1834 Census and 1857 Census of Grimm from Brent. This is the first documentation I have been able to find as to the colony of my great-grandfather. Now I have information I can share with other Erlenbachers. And this new information has renewed my interest in researching the village.

Fischer, Saratov, Volga

Fischer Web Site

Roger A. Toepfer T095

Combined report for Fisher and Herzog by Roger A. Toepfer.

The interchange and exchange of data and general assistance for Fischer / Herzog continues to be handled through the Fischer website. The number of visits to the site that I reported last year was 10,637. At present, the visitor count is over 13,731. From those visits, I received over 38 requests for help or research. These queries were received either from the 'sign in' page, or by e-mail. I then posted the applicable data on the Query Page of my website. Many queries relate to other villages and we attempt to assist by posting those queries to the 'query page' on our site. In some cases, the applicable Village Coordinators were notified when I had the addresses.

It is evident that this has been a suitable method of assisting researchers and our fellow members. Over 20 queries were related to Fischer Colony.

Other requests were connected to villages as follows:

Warenburg
Munjor
Pfeifer
Boaro
Dietel
Katharinenstadt
Stahl
Landau
Schwed
Avilovo
Nieder-Munjou
Glarus, 
Schornthal
Louis
Fronzosen

One request from Brazil, no village named, contains a surname. Village Coordinators of the villages noted can review the queries by logging on to my site and clicking on the 'Query Page' link.

VC Information Exchange Surname Searches 

The following web sites have a very comprehensive listing of surnames and the name of the person who purchased these searches:

Mariental: Tony Leiker
OberMonjou: Kevin Rupp
Fischer/Katharinenstadt: Roger Toepfer

Herzog Village NOTE: The Herzog Web Site is under re-construction and will be taken over by Roger Toepfer. Jerry Braun is "swamped with work" at present.

If anyone else has surname listings, and wishes to publish them, I would be glad to oblige. All are invited to log on and review the listings. It could save you a good deal of time and money if you find a list you are about to order has already been researched. We are willing to help you in the searches of our ancestry, history, and notable heritage. The web site addresses can be found on the AHSGR "Villages" pages on this site.

Friedensdorf, Molochna Colonies

John S. Niessen

I wish to thank all those who are willing to share their work with us on the Internet. A wealth of genealogical information is coming available to us every day that doesn't require great effort or travel to access. I want to share several very interesting new sources I located during the past year which illustrate the diversity of Friedensdorf information now available to the German Russian researcher on the web. As a bonus, all of these sites contain information for researchers interested in villages other than just Friedensdorf, as well.

1. One source of village information that was particularly new to me has come to my attention this past year. Tim Janzen of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society has compiled a translated copy of the Molotschna School Registers, which are available on the Internet at: http://www.mmhs.org/russia/school/school.htm . There are online school registries now available for the following years: 1853-55, 1857-58, 1861-61, 1862-63, 1872-73, 1873-74, 1875-76, 1876-77 and 1883-84. Just for an example, among the Friedensdorf surnames included in the 1883-1884 version are the following: Baergen, Braun, Eggert, Ekkert, Enns, Funk, Harder, Janzen, Klaassen, Lohrenz, Martens, Neufeld, Niessen, Poettker, Reimer, Sawatzky, Schulz, Thielmann, Unger, and Wiens.

2. The Mennonite Historical Society of BC and Richard D. Thiessen have made available a translation of Fond 6 Opis 2 Delo 12750 from the State Archive of the Odessa Region, Odessa, Ukraine that contains census information about Mennonite foreigners who arrived in the Molochansk District, Berdyansk Uyezd, Tavrichesk Gubernia. The data lists those newly arrived Mennonites who had come from Prussia in 1849 and were officially added to the Molotschna colony after the 1850 census. The Friedensdorf listing contains the names of Jakob Johann Neustaedter and Johann Peter Wiens, wife Katharina Peter along with daughters Justina and Helena. The information is available at the Mennonite Historical Society of BC website found at: http://www.mhsbc.com/genealogy/odessa/saorf6i2f12750.htm 

3. Eugene Jenkins has performed an extraction from the 1920 U.S. census, pulling either those individuals or those who had one of their parents as a German who came from Russia residing in Cottonwood County Minnesota. Included in the list is one individual specifically citing the village of Friedensdorf as her birthplace - Marie Ratzloff (sic) or Ratzlaff. Jenkin's entire census extraction is available at: http://www.webbitt.com/volga/MN-cottonwood-cty.txt 

4. One final note. An exciting first - at least that I've ever seen - is this vintage photo from Friedensdorf provided by the Mennonite Library and Archives in North Newton, KS available for viewing online at: http://www.bethelks.edu/services/mla/numbered-photos/pholist2.php?num=2003-0247 

Friedensfeld, Akkerman, Bessarabia

Victor Knell K082

See Brienne for combined report.

Friedrichsfeld, North Caucasus

Arthur Flegel

See Alexanderfeld, North Caucasus for combined report.