Germans from Russia Heritage Collection

First person account of the life and times of Robert R. "Bob" Schaible growing up in North Dakota. Beginning with the lives of his maternal grandparents, August and Julia Verworn Maedche, it includes historical accounts of emigrating to Prussia, settling in the Ukraine and immigrating to America. Madche family recipes are included.

Anthony Kopp, son of John Kopp and Caroline Pastler, was born in 1891 in Krasna, Bessarabia. His family emigrated in 1894 and settled in North Dakota. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1917 in Richardton, North Dakota. He die din 1964 in Garrison, North Dakota.

"Includes extractions of almost 10,000 death events (1833-1900) for the Lutheran Colonies of Glückstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, Kassel (later known as Glinnoye, Karmanovo, Kolosovo, and Velykokomarivka, respectively) and their daughter colonies in the province of Cherson, Imperial Russia. The data are presented in two parts. Part 1 lists the deaths of all who were more than 20 years of age at time of death, plus deaths of persons 20 years and under...

"Includes extractions of more than 22,000 birth and marriage events (1833-1900) for the Lutheran Colonies of Glückstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, Kassel (later known as Glinnoye, Karmanovo, Kolosovo, and Velykokomarivka, respectively) and their daughter colonies in the province of Cherson, Imperial Russia. These extractions from the St. Petersburg film archives are alphabetized by male surname. Within each male surname group, they are further alphabetized...

A series of sketches of frontier life in Dakota Territory, later South Dakota. Is an autobiographical account of B.A. Bose and his family, although the author writes as Johnny Schmidt, and calls his family the Schmidt family.