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	The Germans from Russia . . . In (Western) Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		About half of the Germans who settled in Western Canada in the pre-1914 era were from the German colonies in Russia-- from Volhynia, Bessarabia, the Odessa region, the Crimea, the shores of the Sea of Azov and the banks of the Volga.
		Russia's German-speaking people--suffering under severe trials and sufferings during the war and civil war periods-- were eager to emigrate.
		Volhynian Germans from Russia emigrated to Manitoba (to Brokenhead, Whitemouth, Morris, Rosenfeld and Gretna in the Winnipeg area).
	www.grhs.com /alberta/history2.html (1668 words)

	German-Russian Settlement Map
		German culture in the Nordic Baltic flourished under Swedish rule, but in 1720, at the conclusion of the Northern Wars, these lands were ceded to Russia.
		In the summer of 1803 two Germans: Ziegler and Schurter, acting as agents for the Russian Government, were actively recruiting immigrants in Southwest Germany; while in Russia itself extensive preparations were under way for their reception and settlement.
		Despite restrictions, the German population in Kaliningrad is rapidly increasing (from 200 in 1989 to 4,000 in 1993).
	www.rollintl.com /roll/grsettle.htm (6880 words)

	Festival for Germans from Russia
		German immigrants and their descendents from the former Tsarist Russian Empire and from the former Soviet Union are being invited to a Festival in Medicine Hat on September 5, 6, and 7
		Germans from Russia were one of the largest ethnic groups among the pioneer homesteaders in Southeastern Alberta and Southwest Saskatchewan.
		The purpose of the Festival is to share the story of a people’s migration that began in various German principalities, continued with the colonization of various Russian and Soviet regions, and came to a rewarding conclusion in Canada.
	www.geocities.com /germansfromrussia (367 words)

	German Genealogy: Russia
		Germans had lived in various parts of the Russian empire for centuries so perhaps the best way to describe their history is through a description of the migration waves that occurred.
		It is easy to see how attractive this would be to Germans who were suffering from widespread poverty, malnutrition, and unemployment brought on by feudal infighting, wars, religious persecution, and the general politics of the day.
		HEIMATMUSEUM DER DEUTSCHEN AUS BESSARABIEN is an archival repository for Germans from BESSARABIA.
	www.genealogienetz.de /reg/ESE/russia.html (1868 words)

	Volga Germans
		Russia offered nearly unrestricted opportunities to the emigrants as a result of readily available land for purchase, exemption from military service, freedom from most taxation, self administration, religious freedom and loans to aid their initial settlements.
		As their subjects began to exit in a flood by 1767, the German princes acted decisively to put a stop to the emigration.
		As it was, it is estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 Germans were able to emigrate to Russia.
	www.femling.com /gen/balzer/volga.htm (884 words)

	Village of Balzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Germans from Baden, Hesse, Rhineland, Palatinate, Württemburg and Switzerland emigrated to Russia between 1765 and 1767.
		The village grew to be one of the largest of the Volga German settlements and became the commercial center for the colonies on the west side.
		A census of Germans from Russia was performed in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1913-1915.
	www.femling.com /gen/balzer/balzer.htm (1006 words)

	Famous and Infamous Germans from Russia
		Astronaut Gemar was an invited speaker at the Germans from Russia Historical Society Convention in 1991.
		The AHSGR Library at Lincoln Nebraska is named in her honor because of her pioneering work on history and genealogy of the Germans from Russia.
		It is believed that she is a descendant of Germans from Russia.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~steeles/gerrus (2085 words)

	History of Germans in Russia
		The first German settlement was established in 1764 along the meagerly settled areas of the Lower Volga River.
		The Germans settled on both sides of the Volga River, the western side (Bergseite or the hill side) and the eastern side (Wiesenseite or the meadow side).
		In July of 1915 Germans began to be relocated to the East of Russia and by the time Russia came under Bolshevik rule, the Volga-Germans were so severely persecuted that many more fled Russia.
	ks.essortment.com /germansinruss_rjwg.htm (955 words)

	Germans from Russia Heritage Society
		Russia said goodbye to its last female ruler, and to the last ruler in its history to be given the title veliky (great).
		Born Sofia Frederika Augusta in 1729 to the decaying German Princedom of Anhalt-Serbst, she was fortunate enough to be chosen as a bride for Empress Elizabeth's nephew Peter, the heir to the Russian throne.
		All foreigners who settle in Russia either to engage in agriculture and some trade, or to undertake to build factories and plants will be offered a helping hand and the necessary loans required for the construction of factories useful for the future, especially of such as have not yet been built in Russia.
	www3.telus.net /dorscher/oldnews.htm (4946 words)

	Schönchen, Russia
		Answering the invitation of Catherine the Great, our Germanic ancestors left their war-torn homelands in the 1760’s in hopes of establishing a new life on the steppes of the Volga River.
		By 1770 they determined the soil was not suitable for farming and relocated the village 40 miles northeast of Katharinenstadt (Marx), between the two Catholic villages of Zug (Gattung) to the south, and Solothorn (Wittman) to the north.
		In the late 1870's, as part of a larger Volga German migration to destinations in the United States and South America, several families from Schönchen migrated to the U.S. in search of freedom from an increasingly oppressive government.
	www.schoenchen.org (481 words)

	Lower Volga Villages Project
		Between 1764 and 1941, a cluster of nine colonies populated by Germans of the Lutheran faith existed on the west side of the lower Volga River in Russia.
		A settlement of Germans from Russia in Kansas, Lehigh was a booming little town founded in 1877.
		Germans from Russia in Russell County, Kansas: 1910 U.S. Census: 1995, 60 pages of extractions from this census by Betsy Miley Sutton, computer work and printing by Susan Beckman Kottwitz, with special thanks to Betty Miley Ashley.
	www.webbitt.com /volga/lower/villages.html (1083 words)

	Germans from Russia in Portland, Oregon Home Page
		The German colonists built stable communities, were strong in their religious faith, and revered home and family.
		Fred Hahn is a Volga German descendant who lives in the Portland area and has been researching his family and the village of Norka for many years.
		Help preserve the history and heritage of the Germans from Russia that settled in Portland by sharing your knowledge, family information, stories and photographs on this website.
	www.volgagermans.net /portland (264 words)

	CSU Libraries: Germans from Russia
		The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection is named in honor of the late Dr. Heitman to recognize his years of research and teaching about this ethnic group, the second largest in Colorado.
		It includes a full range of secondary resources and many original documents dealing with the migration of Germans to Russia's open lands of the lower Volga River beginning in the 1760's, plus sources detailing their Russian sojourn and subsequent move to the United States over one hundred years later.
		There is considerable material on the early sugar beet industry and the role of the Germans from Russia in its early growth, plus a general view of the history of Colorado from the perspective of this ethnic group.
	lib.colostate.edu /gfr (307 words)

	Cyndi's List - Germans from Russia
		Supporting the decendents of Germans from Russia in their efforts to learn more about their heritage and ancestors who came from the Bessarabian region of South Russia.
		For those interested in Germans from Russia research and family research oriented specifically to the Glueckstal Colonies of Bergdorf, Glueckstal, Kassel, and Neudorf and their daughter colonies.
		Germans from Russia families connected to the BIEBER surname.
	www.cyndislist.com /germruss.htm (2414 words)

	AHSGR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This seven-foot limestone statue depicts the German Russian families who settled in the United States, Canada and South America.
		Randy Stramel, a local architect and AHSGR member, donated his time and talents for the completion of this project.
		An international organization dedicated to the discovery, collection, preservation, and dissemination of information related to the history, cultural heritage and genealogy of Germanic Settlers in the Russian Empire and their descendants.
	www.ahsgr.org (141 words)

	Germans From Russia Genealogy
		Germans from Russia in Gackle, North Dakota, USA
		Volga: German Villages in the volga valley of Russia
		Germans from Russia in US cenuses (many censuses here)
	www.genealogylinks.net /europe/germany/germans-from-russia.htm (215 words)

	Germans from Russia
		They settled in Grossliebental and became part of that large group that would come to be known as the Germans from Russia.
		By the late 1700s, Russia had acquired land in the Black Sea region that they wished to populate, not only to reap the benefits of farming the area but also to help control the Tatars who had previously inhabited the land.
		As political tensions arose between Germany and Russia, the German colonists were accused of being agents of the German Kaiser.
	home.att.net /~needler/germans.htm (873 words)

	The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas by Norman E. Saul, Spring 1974
		Germans formed an important part of the merchant population of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and another large German ethnic group was absorbed as the result of territorial expansion, particularly in the 18th century.
		By contrast, the "Russian" Germans were those who migrated to Russia to farm, beginning in the reign of Catherine the Great (1762-1796) and continuing through the first third of the next century.
		Another area, in South Russia, was opened to colonial settlement after Russian acquisition of the Black Sea Coast and especially after the annexation of the Crimea in 1783-1784, by which a large expanse of thinly inhabited steppe became part of the Russian Empire.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1974/74_1_saul.htm (9711 words)

	The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
		If you missed the Prairie Public documentary last night on Germans from Russia, you missed a big piece of who we are in this area.
		The documentary, The Germans from Russia: Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie, tells of the story of Germans from Russia as the agricultural pioneers on several continents.
		It is based on both written history and oral histories collected from Germans from Russia living today.
	www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /grhc/media/newspapers/news/old_news/clark.html (1041 words)

	The History of the Volga-Germans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once in Russia, their settlement was restricted to the Volga Region and they were expected to become farmers.
		The Volga German young men were drafted into the Russian Army and the young women were used as domestic servants in the big cities.
		Upon release, the Volga Germans were asked to sign paperwork agreeing to never return to their original settlements.
	www.lhm.org /LID/lidhist.htm (581 words)

	Germans From Russia
		The purpose of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia is to bring together people interested in the history of Germans from Russia.
		Through a better understanding of Germans from Russia, we will promote a better appreciation of their history and the preservation of their culture through their descendants
		In the late 1800's, Germans from Russia began to settle in Portland.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~imrie/germans_from_russia.html (367 words)

	Monument in memory of Russian Germans unveiled in Russia's North - PRAVDA.Ru
		Spokespeople for the German public organization "The House of the Fatherland" ("Dom Rodini") arrived in the city of Arkhangelsk in northern Russia to participate in the ceremony.
		The monument was consecrated according to traditions of the Lutheran church.
		The project of the monument in the memory of Russian Germans has been executed at the expense of the German public organization "The House of the Fatherland." Nuernberg guests arrived in Arkhangelsk to see the monument being unveiled.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/87/343/14028_arkhangelsk.html (496 words)

	Glückstal Colonies Research Association
		The package documentary describes how German immigrants made a perilous trip to Russia to settle near the Black Sea in Ukraine and Moldova and claim it as their new homeland.
		"Of the German immigrants who were to become the founders of the Glückstal Colonies, the first group, 70 families from Württemberg, were settled in the Armenian town of Grigoriopol on the Dniester in 1804-1805.
		In 1806, they were joined by 9 German families from Poland, in 1807 by 24 German families from Hungary and in 1808-09 by 3 families from Germany until there were 106 German families, with 525 people, in Grigoriopol.
	www.glueckstal.org (437 words)

	The Geyer Family : Schleiz-Lobenstein to Buffalo, NY
		Records at St. Paul's German Lutheran Church state that the family came from Schleiz-Lobenstein in the principality of Reuss (Thuringia), Germany.
		Robert Ray is researching the family of Peter GEYER, b 18 Aug 1853 near the Volga District in Saratov, Russia; d 21 Jul 1944 North Dakota.
		In 1891 they left Russia, passing on their route through Odessa, Berlin, Hamburg, Liverpool, Quebec (they had planned on New York), Winnipeg where they stayed over the winter, and finally reached North Dakota in 1892.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/earthstar/geyer.html (2106 words)

	Germans from Russia Research Marketplace
		Abraham and Maria (Quiring) Heinrichs, German Mennonites from the Molotschna Colony in Russia, came to the United States with their eight children in 1874 aboard the S.S. Teutonia.
		A Genealogy of Volga Germans from Katharinenstadt, Russia.
		Lehigh was a settlement of Germans from Russia in the Kansas founded in 1877.
	www.genealogyunlimited.com /market.html (3728 words)

	AHSGR - Central California Chapter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Our mission is to archive, research, and promote the history of Germans from Russia.
		n Fresno, many of the Germans from Russia were known as the "Rooshins of West Fresno".
		By 1920, these settlers swelled the population to 8,000 followed by the Mennonites and the South Russia Germans.
	www.ahsgr.org /fresno/cacentra.html (142 words)

	The Volga Village of Josefstal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The year 1941 saw the entire German population of this village and the other German colonies banished to Siberia.
		American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR)
		German Villages in the Volga Valley of Russia
	www.josefstal.org (253 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Germans die in Russia bus crashes
		The Germans were on their way to visit relatives among Siberia's ethnic German population, officials said.
		Separately, a German tourist was killed in a tour bus crash in St Petersburg.
		Some 28 Germans on board the bus were on their way to stay with relatives in the city of Omsk.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/europe/4746151.stm (237 words)

	Germans from Russia Heritage Society
		The Hubert Zelmer essay contest is open to all Canadian high school students having at least one grandparent as a German from Russia.
		Vernal Equinox rituals center around the annual warming of the earth and the renewal of her fertility; seeds sprouting in darkness after a winter of dormancy; and the rising of the spring constellations in the night sky.
		In German households there will be Spring cleaning and decorations are brought into the home, budding twigs, crocuses and daffodils, willow and birch, the first shoots of grasses, or wheat sprouts in an earthenware pot.
	www.cadvision.com /dorscher/marchapr.htm (3255 words)

	Germans from Russia Resource Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In reading German church records, you often come upon an entry that a person was born on on a feast day like "Simon Judah Day".
		They organize bi-annual gatherings of Germans from Russia (Bundestreffen) in Stuttgart, Germany which is normally held in late June.
		A mailing list for those interested in Germans from Russia research and family research oriented specifically to the Glueckstal Colonies of Bergdorf, Glueckstal, Kassel, and Neudorf and their daughter colonies.
	www.rollintl.com /Roll/links.htm (3205 words)

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