Village Coordinator Reports 2006
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Marienbrunn, North Caucasus
See Alexanderfeld for combined report.
Mariental, Samara, Volga
Mariental Web Site
See Louis for combined report.
Markosowka, North Caucasus
See Alexanderfeld for combined report.
Messer, Saratov, Volga
2006 Village Report for Messer
Greetings to all other village coordinators from MESSER (UST-ZOLIKHA). I
have been the Village Coordinator for Messer since the Seattle Convention in
1992. This has been a slow year.
The database has 1,735 names and 637 marriages. This village was
established on July 7, 1766 with 397 residents and in 1926 the town population
consisted of 3,575 residents. The farmland allocated to this village wasn't
good for farming, so this village was known for its industry. At one time
there were more than 600 Sarpinna (a type of cloth similar to gingham)
weavers. I have a mailing list of forty-eight names for Messer of which eight
do not belong to AHSGR but have submitted data for the database. I was not
able to attend the 2006 convention. I have updated a comparison of the Messer
1775 and 1798 census records in alphabetical order. This year, I have had one
inquiry about Messer. It was by e-mail. This was down from six last year. The
family that was being researched was Meng.
I have ordered the 1834 and 1857 census records from Brent Mai and hope to
receive them sometime near the end of this year. This will be a great help in
understanding the Messer data.
Bob Weigand
AHSGR Village Coordinator for Messer
Moor, Saratov, Volga
Moor Web Site
See Gnadenfeld for combined report.
See Balzer for combined report.
Mühlhausendorf, Swedish Colonies, Nikolaev and Kherson
See Alt-Schwedendorf for combined report.
Neu-Danzig, Nikolaev, Kherson
See Alt-Danzig for combined report.
Neudorf, Glückstal, Odessa, South Russia
See Glückstal Colonies Research
Association for combined report.
Neu-Glückstal, Glückstal, Odessa, Kherson
See Glückstal Colonies Research
Association for combined report.
Neu Moor, Saratov, Volga
See Gnadenfeld for combined report.
Neu-OberMonjou, Samara, Volga, Russia
Neu-OberMonjou Web
Site
See Graf for combined report.
Neu-Schilling I and II, Samara, Volga
Schilling Web Site
See Alt-Schilling for combined report.
Neu-Straub, Saratov, Volga
Neu-Straub Web Site
2006 Village Report for Neu-Straub
I have had no contact with anyone from Neu-Straub. There has been nothing
new this year. I did order and receive the two books of Alwina Meiber who
lives in Germany but had childhood memories of Neu-Straub. I understood her to
say in one of her correspondence to me, that her grandparent or perhaps a
great-grandparent, founded Neu-Straub. His name was Straub. Since I do not
read German very well, I may not have understood her statements. I have given
the second and newest book to a German relative who is to read it and jot down
the information I am looking for concerning family and/or the founding of Neu-Straub.
I would so appreciate those of you who have roots in Neu-Straub to contact me
so I have names to contact when and if I have more information.
I do have the 1857 census of only the Keil and Heintz names. If this census
might help you, please contact me. I will share.
Lillian Larwig
Village Coordinator, Neu-Straub
Researching Keil and Heintz
Neu-Yagodnaya, Samara, Volga
Neu-Yagodnaya Web Site
2006 Village Report for Neu Jagodnoya
We had no activity this year for this village that is located 65 miles SE
of Saratov.
L.P. Wilhelm
Village Coordinator for Neu Jagodnoya
Nieder-Monjou, Samara, Volga
Nieder-Monjou Web Site
2006 Village Report for Nieder-Monjou
Throughout the past year we received 12 queries, a record number,
concerning the following Nieder-Monjou surnames: ANSCHÜTZ/ANSCHUTZ, BETZ,
BINEDEL, HERBER, MÜLLER/MILLER, RIEFFER, RUFFER, STEINEPREIS, TAG, and
ULRICH.
I was pleased to get a copy of Einwanderung in das Wolgagebeit 1764-1767,
Band 3 Kolonien Laub - Preuss by Igor Pleve that has the original settlers'
list for Nieder-Monjou. Using the information presented as a starting point, I
was able to determine that the NIEDECKER family came from Steinfurth, Kreis
Friedberg, Provinz Oberhessen, Hessen. I have been doing research for an
individual in Russia on the surname NIEDECKER in microfilmed Steinfurth church
records from the LDS church.
We continued to also research families from Nieder-Monjou, primarily those
who immigrated to central Kansas.
An ANSCHÜTZ surname chart has been on order since 1999 and a BETZ surname
chart has been on order since 2003.
Co-Village Coordinator, Michael Grau, attended the 2006 AHSGR convention in
Lincoln. Mike met with an individual with Nieder-Monjou roots at "Village
Night" at the convention. Mike also was able to obtain a number of
BISTERFELDT obituaries at the convention.
You may visit the Nieder-Monjou web site at the link above.
Michael Grau and Steven Grau
Village Coordinators for Nieder-Monjou
Norka, Saratov, Volga
Norka Web Site
2006 Village Report for Norka
Jerry Krieger continues to publish the outstanding Norka News Letter and
Judy Curtis has made great progress with the Norka Data Collection effort.
Together with Steve Schreiber we were all fortunate to be together in Lincoln
at the convention for village night with other villagers.
My idle time, which is a rarity these days, has been spent editing the
Norka Film by Henry Walker (Conrad Heinrich Wacker). The VHS version should be
ready for Christmas with the DVD version following NLT the end of February.
This project has challenged my IT skills. I have had to learn new panoply of
skills and familiarity with video editing software.
I have very few inquiries about Norka and I attribute that to our fine
newsletter and website managed by Jerry Krieger and Steve Schreiber
respectively.
Joanne Krieger found it necessary to resign as our village Family Chart
Coordinator and has returned all the charts in our village collection to the
chart owners or on direction of the owner to our chart collection at AHSGR
Headquarters.
Let me take this opportunity to thank Joanne and all the others for their
contributions. I hope to see all of you at our next gathering in Hays, Kansas.
Respectively submitted,
Robert M. Benson
Village Coordinator, Norka
Oberdorf, Saratov, Volga
Oberdorf Web Site
2006 Village Report for Oberdorf
The research activity for Oberdorf has been much less in 2006 due to many
researchers concentrating on research in the mother colonies from which their
Oberdorf ancestors came. The availability in early 2005 of the 1858 Revision
List for Oberdorf has enabled many researchers to connect their ancestors back
to the mother colonies (Dobrinka, Galka, Grimm, Holstein, Kutter, Norka,
Schwab, Shcherbakovka, and Stephan).
Oberdorf has welcomed about ten new researchers this year. A few of the new
people are interested in surnames that have not been researched in the past,
so that is an exciting development.
Many researchers are still hitting a wall in their research due to a lack
of records for the timeframe from the 1858 Revision List to the time of
emigration in the late 19th century and early 20th century. We continue to
hope that new records become available in the archives to enable us to connect
that generation back to the 1858 Revision List.
Email correspondence is down from 2005 numbers, with just a little over 100
email exchanges. This is, again, a result of many researchers redirecting
their efforts to the mother colonies.
I continue to maintain the Oberdorf web site.
Teri Helzer, Oberdorf Village Coordinator
Ober-Monjou, Samara, Volga
Ober-Monjou Web Site
Ober-Monjou
Mailing List
2006 Village Report for Ober-Monjou
I have been working on my villages as well as many of the other Volga
colonies that have connections to Ellis County.
I have had a few request from Obermunjou, but not too many. I was able to
obtain the 1850, 1851, 1875, 1889, and 1893 marriage records from Russia. Now
I'm waiting on the 1855, 1856, and 1857 marriage records. I have obtained the
1857 census records. I hope to concentrate more on getting more on the
marriage records out of the archives this upcoming year.
Kevin Rupp
Paulskoye, Samara, Volga
Paulskoye
Web Site
2006 Village Report for Paulskoye
It has been a moderately active year for me. I continue to maintain the
Paulskoye website although I haven't updated it in quite a while now except to
add new contacts' email addresses to the surname research section.
This year I obtained another village plan constructed by memory from a
former inhabitant of Paulskoye who lives in Germany now. Each person whom I
ask to draw up a village plan has a slightly different version. Due to this, I
am getting a really good picture of what families lived where prior to their
removal in 1941. This plan comes to me courtesy of Eugenia Hoffmann Dehn of
Germany through the efforts of her father, Friedrich Hoffmann, and his uncle,
all of Germany.
I was contacted by Harry Felsing from Canada. His father was born in
Paulskoye and was drafted into the Russian Army for WWII and became a POW in
Germany where he managed to remain and marry and eventually resettled to
Canada in 1952 with his family. This was an interesting case.
Another Canadian researching the Boxhorn surname contacted me. Alex
Boxhorn's great-grandfather was born in Paulskoye and later moved to the Omsk
area. Alex's family eventually moved from Russia to Germany and, only
recently, to Canada. He provided me with his family tree.
Laurie Houle of the USA researching her Markgraf family from Paulskoye also
contacted me. Relatives can be found in Wisconsin and Minnesota. She was
particularly interested in finding the origin in Germany of her family and
connecting to other Markgraf's from Germany.
Finally, new information is being added to the EWZ Index all the time. I
advise fellow Village Coordinators to be VERY creative in locating persons
from your respective villages. The misspelling of surnames and village names
are not to be believed!!!! Here is a list of surnames I found for Paulskoye:
Bachmann, Balzer, Barth, Dorn, Felsing, Guenther, Grune, Hardt, Heibrecht,
Kalbfeisch, Kessler, Kind, Kurbatzki, Mergel (Merkel), Merkel, Mueller, Popov,
Roehrich (Rohrig), Schamey, Scherer, Schneider, Starkloff, and Waegele.
Respectfully submitted,
Tim Weeder
AHSGR Village Coordinator, Paulskoye
Pfeifer, Saratov, Volga
Pfeifer Web Site
See Kamenka for combined report.
Pobochnoye, Saratov, Volga
Pobochnoye Web Site
2006 Village Report for Pobochnoye, Schoendorf, Schoenfeld, Schoental and
Strassendorf
Pobochnoye was founded in 1772 and lay forty miles northwest of Saratov. It
was founded by 31 families, mainly from Darmstadt, Germany.
The primary thrust this year was to connect Alexander Wilhelm, 56, of
Speyer, Germany, with my Wilhelm family, both from Pobochnoye. Alex was born
in Karaganda, Kazakstan in 1950. He, his wife and three children moved to
Germany in 1993. We had been corresponding in German since November 2005 and
write about six times a week. Alex had trouble getting documentation on his
grandfather's birth, but the Saratov Archiv found the birth record to be 1889
in Pobochnoye. His parents' names were on the record, so we could go to the
1857 census and locate Alex's great-grandfather born in 1856. My
great-grandfather was born in 1852. They were first cousins. Their fathers
were brothers. We tracked the line back to the 1772 Original Settlers List and
back to Darmstadt, according to Dr. Pleve.
We got into the confusing labyrinth of DNA to see if that process could
further prove our familial relationship. We submitted DNA samples. After much
delay and confusion we rested. It costs a lot of money to pursue further, and
they can't guarantee much success. Perhaps we will continue in the spring.
I receive 25 or 30 inquiries regarding my villages each year and do some
translations. More young folks are researching and finding fewer old folks to
talk to. Pedigree charts and other records are becoming more and more
important.
Laurin Wilhelm, San Antonio, TX.
Village Coordinator for Pobochnoye,
Schoendorf, Schoenfeld, Schoental and Strassendorf.
(Schoenfeld, founded 1856, was a daughter colony of Pobochnoye. Schoendorf,
founded 1855, and Schoental, founded 1856, were daughter colonies of Yagodnaya
Polyana and Pobochnoye. Strassendorf, founded about 1858 was settled by folks
from many villages.)
Reinhard(t), Samara, Volga
2006 Village Report for Reinhardt
Because of my relocation to Arizona, the time available for Reinhardt
Village research this year has been limited. I am still holding to my
long-range goals and expect to soon resume my normal pace of research
activities.
I have been exchanging information with five correspondents since my last
report and have been adding to my Reinhardt database file, which now lists
1225 individuals and over 4000 events.
One person wrote that in about 1930, a "Mr. 'Basler'?" gave a
presentation ... about his recent trip back to several Volga villages...he
mentioned that Reinhardt no longer existed as a village, except for several
huge dunghills and old shacks, which had been partially destroyed for
firewood." [Note: the presenter's name may have been Basner, a Reinhardt
village surname.]
I submitted an invited article for the "Village Coordinator News"
section of the AHSGR Newsletter that appeared in the Spring 2006 issue (No.
120).
Respectfully submitted,
Jerry C. Sitzman
Reinhardt Village Coordinator
Reinwald, Samara, Volga
See Krasnoyar for combined report.
Rosenberg / Umet, Saratov, Volga
Rosenberg
Web Site
2006 Village Report for Rosenberg
This has been another relatively quiet year. It seems to me that since the
village of Rosenberg was relatively small that there are only a limited number
of families interested in their heritage from the village. Over the years
there have been a number of very substantial family records collected and
written up for the larger of these families with the results of research
deposited at headquarters, so many researchers already have information at
hand.
My transcription of the 1857 census has been available for a year on
request for a small payment towards the cost of purchasing it in the first
place. However very few researchers have asked for information from it - I
think three in two years - and I have therefore assigned the transcript to
Brent Mai, who has done some work on the small parts which I had trouble with,
and he has made the result available in his list of transcriptions which is
much more satisfactory from an administrative point of view.
The website continues to attract favorable comment. There is a small amount
of material, which needs to be added to the site, but nothing of any
substantial impact. The guest book has attracted just six comments during the
year, and connected with the following families: Steinle, Dahlinger, Knaub,
Manweiler, Reizenstein, Koeller, and Schmidt.
Additionally, through the e-mail link, I have received a little information
or requests for information on Weber, Dahlinger and Kuxhausen, Wittmann,
Schneider, Stehle/Stahle and Grauberger. The information received generally
related to individuals born between 1860 and 1900 from family records, but did
include a copy of a photograph of one Frederich Dahlinger from Rosenberg.
I should point out that there are no censuses currently known for Rosenberg
after 1857 and there is a very small amount of baptismal and marriage data
available for only a couple of years. We continue to hope that in the future
some new material will be found. I know that this lack of information from
1857 through to the time of emigration from the village (c1892-1922) is very
frustrating for researchers but there is nothing that can be done at this
stage. Should any material be found, it will certainly be reported as soon as
possible.
Prof. Richard McGregor
Village Coordinator for Rosenberg
Rosenfeld, North Caucasus
See Alexanderfeld for combined report.
Rosenheim, Samara, Volga
2006 Village Report for Rosenheim
I have had about four inquiries for Rosenheim this year. It is a continual
frustration to me that I don't have the last census for Rosenheim, as most
people do not know their relationship to those on the 1850 census. If anyone
can help out on this, I would appreciate it. I can get it translated if I had
the raw data. Once again, I would like to create a website for Rosenheim, but
time is short for me.
Very respectfully,
Randi (Dotz) Bolyard
Village Coordinator for Rosenheim
Rothammel, Saratov, Volga
Rothammel Mail List ~ email Kathy
Frank Jones to join
2006 Village Report for Rothammel and
Seewald
Transliteration of the church records for Rothammel/Seewald is continuing,
but is a very slow process due to lack of funds. We are grateful that Tim and
Rosi Kloberdanz have volunteered to work on the marriage records. They are
beginning with the most current marriages, which are most likely to contain
names of couples that immigrated to the United States. We also appreciate that
Mila Koretnikov, who immigrated to Germany, has volunteered to help. She has
been working on the early birth records. Many of these are children of those
couples listed in the 1858 census.
Kathy Jones continues to support the Rothammel/Seewald Mail List, which you
can join by contacting her at the above address.
Joe Gertge is our Data Base Coordinator. Please send him your family
information so we continue to merge families. It is amazing to learn of
cousins you never knew you had.
Nicholas & Barbara Bretz
Village Coordinators for Rothammel and Seewald
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