This website will be constantly under construction with new additions of information. Please be patient as we add research data collected so far and new information received from individuals and researchers in Russia. Our data from Russia includes information our project purchased from RAGAS and Dr. Igor Pleve, as well as research purchased by individuals and given to us.
Please follow the links to check for data on your village(s) and surname(s). You may use the "edit - find on this page" function on your browser for a quick check of each page of this website. Be sure to check all variations of spelling you can think of - remember many of these records have been translated from handwritten Russian and German.
Please note that photographs have been added for some of the villages. (Please go to your villages of interest and look for links.) Be advised that the photos are slow to come up - please be patient! We're aware that some of the links may be broken, please check back later.
If you find that you have corrections or additions to any data found here, you may submit them to Betty Ashley. Please know that they will be added as time permits. (Slowly!)
1910 US Census - Germans from Russia in Russell County, Kansas
The Records of St Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rocky Ford, CO
The Records of Immanuel German Congregational Church Rocky Ford, CO
Jeruslan Nachrichten - Articles from our newsletters 1994 - 1999 New Articles Added
Lower Volga Villages Sheet - Rolene Kiesling edits and publishes this newsletter which used to be called The Dreispitz, Muehlberg / Shcherbakovka Sheet. Area covered includes the Galka Parish villages of Dobrinka, Dreispitz, Galka, Holstein, and Schwab and the Stephan Parish Villages of Kraft, Mueller, Shcherbakovka, and Stephan. Dues are $9 for two large issues per year. Their Web Home Page is maintained by Edith Bottsford. Summaries of their large obituary collection are maintained by Rachel Smith.
Janet Flickenger's Research online - Extractions from over 150 Passenger Manifests and Declaration of Intentions of German Russians from Russell and Marion Counties, KS from 1907 to 1951, among other things! Declaration of Intentions of German Russians for Shattuck , Ellis County, Oklahoma. Be sure to go to Janet's website! You'll find a list of her publications which are available on CD and/or in print. A wonderful resource and she's adding information all the time.
Ebenezer Lutheran Church of Sheboygan, Wisconsin - Marriages with INDEX now available on line and maintained by Arliss Hoskins. This church film goes up to 1981.
The Gottfried Riffel Newsletter - Judy Riffel edits this Riffel newsletter which is published on the Web. To be added as a subscriber to this free Web newsletter, contact Judy via email (click on her name in blue).
Balzer Village Group Newsletter - Wayne Bonner edits and publishes this newsletter which is devoted to the village Balzer. Subscriptions are $8 per year with quarterly issues. Herb Fleming is the Webmaster of the Balzer Home Page. Wayne Bonner has been working hard at translating German church records - baptism/birth and marriage dates and places of over 50 Balzer colonists and 10 Moor colonists have been learned as of December 2001. If you can assist him in translating the Old German Script, please click his name, email him and volunteer.
Aehrenfeld and Kratzke Website - Bob Berschauer and Brent Mai have done alot of work on these villages. Included is information received from Russia. There is a "search" link that you can use. However, if your searched name is even mentioned once in a batch, it will be indexed. You will have to do a "find" for every page you bring up.
Galka Book - published in German in 1912, does not list names of residents, but does include a great deal of information on the church, mills, and agriculture of this village. Looking for help - make a donation to this translation project or volunteer to translate some of it from German to English.
Dr. Igor Pleve , Saratov, Russia, is no longer accepting orders for Family Tree Charts. We understand that the Archives in Russia do accept orders from individuals, however we are not aware of how to proceed.
Jeruslan Nachrichten Database - Betty Ashley has been researching some of these villages for more than 30 years. She and Sue Kottwitz have compiled a database of families and individuals - primarily from Wiesenmüller. Betty will answer your queries as she has time. Betty also welcomes email submissions of your ancestors arrival in America to further her efforts developing our Ships List.
