BERESAN DISTRICT ODESSAREGIONAL INTEREST GROUP

ANNUAL CHAPTER MEETING / WORKSHOP

Presented byValerie Renner Ingram

David Kilwien

Beresan Fields at Sunset

2ND ANNUAL RIG MEETING

– Annual Chapter Business Meeting • According to the GRHS Bylaws

– ONLY GRHS members can join a RIG– ONLY RIG members can vote today

• Annual report to the President

– Workshop Lots of NEWS!!

Old Catholic church in München

BDO RIG MEMBERSMazur, DonnaMcDonald, JuneMehl, Clinton Mehl, EstherMesser, JamesMiller, MichaelMischel, Duane & CarolMorales, ChristineMorrison, ElaineNeuhardt, LorettaOrwick, SundaeOster, AlbertPeterson, JackiePfeifle, AlbertRehwalt, MargaretReis, VernonRennich, MervRenz, CurtRoth, DennisRyan, CaroleSchaff, Carol L.Schaff, JohnSchauer, BobSchmidt, HarveySchneider, Robert & KathySchuh, Jo-EllenSchuh, RonaldSenn, JenniferSergent, James A.

Heinle, RayHelbling, RonaldHelfenstein, JimHerzog, AlexHochstatter, DonHoff, GeorgeHoff, RichardHoff, RosemarieHoff, VeraHoffman, CheriHopfauf, DianneHorn, BarbaraHuber, AlbertHundley, ElaineIngram, ValerieJesser, VelmaJohnson, MaythiaKatz, IrmaKemendics, WilhelmKilwien, DavidKnoll, MikeKonrad, AllenKonrad, Mary LuKopp, MargyKuntz-Igoa, KayeLaFrance, EileenMaas, RaymondMartel, CarolMarthaller, Aubrey

Abel, KarenAckerman, LynellAnderson, BonnieAspenleiter, RichAxtman, Mary LynnBallinger, AlvinaBauder, MiloBerger, AlBerger, BrianBettcher, GaryChristman, PatsyChristman, EdithCook, AnnetteDeck, SebastianDoerr, LoriDrashil, WayneEhreth, DonErlenbush, DoloresFalk, LindaFerder, RobertFischer, ElenaForster, AlbanFrank, MichaelGeiger, TimGeigle, HerbertGibbard, ShirleyGomke, ArnoldHaas, RogerHeck, DonHecker, Peter

Sheets, ElinorStabler, DuaneStahl, EugeneStangl, Tom & JanStraley, MarieTaggart, FlorenceTaylor, GayleTeske, JohnThurstenson, JoeUlmer, ErwinUnderwood, MaryUrdahl, Rene’Vegele, OttoWahl, Dale L.Waldman, PiusWandler, DianeWatters, EdnaWeber, Lola Werner, LorraineWest, MicheleWise, ElliWoehl, Arlene B.Wornath, HaroldZent, CarolZimbelman, RobertZimbelman, LyleZimbelman, Arlene

BERESAN DISTRICT ODESSACHAPTER CHARTER

BACKGROUND HISTORYOF REGIONAL INTEREST GROUPS

• RIGs were first formed as geographic groupsnot officially associated with GRHS

– At convention 2 years ago• Membership accepted Bylaw changes to bring RIGs under the

GRHS umbrella– During Fall 2004

• We started bringing onto the GRHS Server– RIG webpages– RIG listserves

– April 2006 Board meeting• It was determined that the GRHS bylaws gave RIGs the right

to representation on the Board

BDO RIG ORGANIZATION

• Mission Statement• RIG Address• Spokesperson• Newsletter• VCs• Records Retrieval• Project Coordination• Web Pages• Listserv• Technical Liaison• Annual Meeting• Annual Report

Handout includes the names of the management team members

Cemetery in village of Christina 2003

BDO LOGO – UPDATE?

Current Logo New Updated Version

Created by Cindy Immel Koenig 1997

VOTING

• IntroductionsSpokespersonNewsletter EditorWebmasterList Administrator

• Discussions / Questions• Vote Village of Felsenburg 2003

BERESAN MAP

Used with permission of the Germans from Russia H eritage Collecti on, NDSU Libraries , Fargo, ND

BDO NEWSLETTER

• Digital - online

• Paper –June, October, February• $3.00/yr. USA

$4.00 Canadian$6.00 Europe(US Funds Only)

• Jackie PetersonCurrent Lead Editor

• Subscription contactArletta Baskins20919 Little Valley Rd.Polsbo, WA 98370

Potemkin Stairs, Odessa Courtesy of Elaine Hundley

BDO NEWSLETTER

• We NEED your participation:

- Articles- Pictures- Folklore- Important Announcements

• Contact Jackie Petersonjakearney@comcast.net

School Welcomes Members of Tour GroupCourtesty of Ray Heinle

BDO LISTSERV

• Started December 1997• Closed List• Researchers helping each

other• Announcements• Great way to connect with

others researching families from the same area.

• Now hosted by GRHS’ “Otto”

BDO Iron CrossCourtesy of Elaine Hundley

BDO HOMEPAGE

• http://www.grhs.org/rig/bdo/• Member Matrix• Surname list• BDO FAQ’s• Village Histories• Village Coordinators• Members Homepages • Members Only Area

Managed by Sundae Orwick

Karlsruhe Catholic ChurchTaken on our tour 2003

BDO RECORDS RETRIEVAL

• RR Team– four people– build priority list

• keeping balance – villages & religious mix

• purchase as the funds are available

Domes of OdessaCourtesy of Elaine Hundley

NIKOLAEV PROJECT

• 2003 Request for help• Copier / Digital Package• AA Committee • BDO Support• GRHS Approval• Digital Copies• Translation projects• Approx. 125 CDs on hand

to date! One of two buildings - Nikolaev Archive

FUTURE NIKOLAEV PROJECTS

Meeting in June 2006

• Digital images pricing

• EWZ Copies Approved– NOT found in National

Archives!

• KGB files open to descendants

• 5 HUGE rooms still full of boxes– All German files found will be

shared.

June 2006 Meeting in Nikolaev Archivewith Director

FILES ALREADY RECEIVED

• (2001) Partial List of Repressions

• Neu Danzig 1924 List of Baptist SocietyMembers

• 1920 List of Landholders for Rastadt & München

• 1922 List of Villagers Being Allotted Land for Speier, Rohrbach, Landau, Johannestal, Sulz, and Worms (Neu-Karlsruhe?)

• 1920-1923 Katharinental Village Lists

• Individual NKVD /KGB files

• St. Pete’s Reports for years 1899-1917

NEU DANZIG BAPTIST SOCIETY

• Bender, Heinrich Gottlieb 33• Pudwill, Heinrich Johann 32• Pujdwill, Emanuel Johann 25• Wagner, Paul Lukas 51• Engel, Karl Fedrovil 45• Giedd, Paul Johann 49• Bender, Maria Heinrich 29• Meth, Olda Anreas 18• Rink, Michael Michael 53• Kohl, Lidia Vasili 23• Kohl, Johann Johann 26• Kohl, Karl Ivan 58 • Engel, Paulina Jakob 37

• Klundt, Ekaterina Erni 57• Schroetlin, Emanuel Friedrich

27• Schroetlin, Sofia Heinrich 25• Heft, Elisabetha Heinrich 47• Pudwill, Lida Ivan 29• Pudwill, Ivan Ivan 29• Engel, Sofia Ivan33• Mattheis, Sofia Jakob 33• Heft, Matilda Ivan 23• Benkendorf, Lidia 38• Klundt, Lida Friedrich 22• Fuhrmann, Luiza Ludwig 35

1922 SPEIER LISTING

• Privately Purchased & donated to GRHS

• Family Units• Father’s Names• No Ages Given• Online in Members

Only Section - BDO• Ongoing project to fill in

maiden names…we need EVERYONE’S help!!

1922 SPEIER LISTING

Asberger

Wolf Martin

Kunz

Wingerter Christian

Names in blue italics are maiden names we’ve been able to add

1922 RASTADT LISTING

•Family Units

•Father’s name givenfor Head of Household

•Ages included

Original view “Enhanced” view

1920 RASTADT LANDHOLDERS

Just added intoBDO Members Only

Section!

1920 MÜNCHEN LANDHOLDERS

Just added intoBDO Members Only

Section!

9 unusual entries atthe end – villagersthat held land, but

didn’t live there

1922 ROHRBACH LISTING

Fam

•Family Units

•Father’s name givenfor Head of Household

Ages Included

WORMS JOHANNESTAL CHURCH REGISTERS

Fond 484 files from Nikolaev•Births•Deaths•Marriages•1899-1917

BDO RECORDS RETRIEVAL

• Being sold by the BDO Working Group in English form

252 9 About marriages in Beresan district, 1816; 29252 29 About marriages and transfer of households in

Beresan district, 1816-1817; 134

File 666 -- Pages; 82 - 83, 138 - 142, 144 - 152

PAST PURCHASES FROM ODESSA ARCHIVE

• R8085-6-6

• 1920 Rastadt Deaths

• Individually purchased & donated to GRHS

• Translation from Cyrillic script done by Serge Yelizarov

PAST PURCHASES FROM ODESSA ARCHIVE

• R8085-6-61920

• Rastadt Marriages

• Individually purchased and donated to GRHS

• Translation from Cyrillic script done by Serge Yelizarov

PAST PURCHASES FROM ODESSA ARCHIVE

• File R8085-6-5

• Landau Parish Record of Baptisms 1919

• Individually Purchased& donated to GRHS

• Translated by Serge Yelizarov

LANDAU VOLOST REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

•• Record number: 7691/1

Date: June 19Child's name: ElizabethaPlace of birth: LandauParents (their ages): Nicodim (26) and Juliana (23) EHRMANTRAUTPlace of residence: LandauOccupation: FarmerSuccession number: 1st

•• 7692/2

July 25WilhelminaLandauGerman (31) and Anna (28) KINZLER/?/LandauFarmer4th

•• 7693/3

July 28AntonSulzAnton (43) and Elizabetha (40) VETSCHLandauFarmer9th

•

PAST PURCHASES FROM ODESSA ARCHIVE

• 6-1-4978 purchased privately September, 2003 and donated to GRHS

• 300 pages of families that were relocated from villages in GDO to Katharinental

BDO RECORDS RETRIEVAL

• RR Funds– Held by Alvina

• July 4th : $733.26$139.72 processing fund

• Sales points– USA – Alvina Ballinger– Canada - Donna Mazur

Johannestal ChurchCourtesy of Ray Heinle

BDO CATHOLIC RESEARCH AIDS

• “The German Colonies In South Russia 1804-1904” by Conrad Keller

• Uses data from the 1839-1840 census

For 5 Catholic villages (Landau,Speier, Sulz, Karlsruhe, Katharinental)

• Uses 18ll Lists for Rastadt and München.

• Index available on BDO webpageRastadt Grave Stone

Courtesy of Michael Haag

LANDAU CHURCH REGISTERS

• Baptismal Register 1860-1866• Death Register 1860-1872• Both are in process of being corrected

Remains of the Catholic Church in München, Ukraine today

JUST FOUND IN NIKOLAEV(OOPS!! OH NO!!)

Approximately 40 Catholic Churchbooks for the

village of

KATHARINENTAL1879-1921

Births, deaths & marriages(missing years 1887, 1889, 1893, 1894, 1910,

1920)

These turned out to be ORTHODOX

Site in the center of Katharinental wherethe Catholic church once stood

BDO LUTHERAN RESEARCH AIDS

• St. Petersburg FilmsIndex of Annual Parish Reports available online

• Generally the years1833-1885 for Evangel Lutheran and Reformed Churches

• NEW!! 1899-1916 St. Pete files received from Nikolaev in April 2005

Streets of OdessaCourtesty of Ray Heinle

BDO LUTHERAN RESEARCH AIDSVILLAGE DATABASES

• Adelenental• Balditzki• Berlin• Eigenfeld• Hoffnung• Hoffnungsburg• Johannestal• Lichtenfeld• Marienfeld• München• Neu-Lustdorf• Rohrbach• Rosental• Wilhelmstal• Worms

Beresan village from distance 2006

Available to GRHS members on BDO website! Check ‘em out!!

FAMILY CHURCH BOOKS

• ODESSA CITY – ST. PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH

FAMILY BOOKS 1833-1860AND MARRIAGE REGISTER 1804-1845

Odessa Arkadia Walkway

CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS

• EWZEinwandererzentralstelle843 rolls of applications of German citizens who left Russia between 1939-1945

• DAIDeutsches Ausland-Institut

• 39 reels currently in GRHS Library

September 2005 Results:ALL reels had been purchased by individual RIG members!

CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS

• EWZ Family Tree

• 3 generations for applicant & spouse

• MOST times, data came from memoryand is NOT always accurate

EWZ’S FOUND IN NIKOLAEV

We believe these have never been processed through German Government, as they are

NOT found in our Indexed reels from National Archive USA

CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS

• DAI Fragebogen

• Unlike EWZ’s these were filled out in the villages

• More family details

First Marriage of Johann Bär

CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS

2nd Marriage of Johann Bär 3rd Marriage of Johann Bär

CHRISTINA CEMETERY(NOVO-SAFRONOVKA)

Messer, FerdinandBorn 1811 Died 1896

Elena Keller Loran1892-1892 Child

Emilia Loran Born AmanDied 18 Jul 1912 38 years old

Agatha Schardt born MartinBorn 6 Aug 1890 Died 3 Feb 1909

Phillipina SchardtBorn 8 Jan 1809 Died 1886

Franz KellerDied 1 Mar 1897 3-1/2 weeks old

P. PfauDied 26 June 19_3(this part of the year was illegible)

Elisabeth Loran BleileBorn 1835 Died 10 Jan 1896

Rosa Loran Born Hellmann14 Mar 1874 Died 19 Jan 1906

Koval GennadyMykolayivska OblastNovo-Odesky RayonSelo Novo-Safronivka

56620Ukraine

CHRISTINA CEMETERY(NOVO-SAFRONOVKA)

• 3 more headstones recovered June 2006

– Katharina Antonborn BLETH 1850

– Rosa Loran born HELLMANBorn 14 March 1874Died 19 January 1906

– Here rests in GodPaulina Anton

CHRISTINA 1929 LIST OF GERMANS REMAINING

• Peter Mock, son of Christian• Barth, Lukas, son of Franz • Barth, Jakob, son of Franz • Carnagal, Joseph, son of Ludwig• Shoa, Peter, son of Johann • Winchell, Paul, son of Ignatz• Klein, Jakob, son of Michael • Schimpf, Mathew, son of Phillip • Klein , Elisabeth, Daughter of Ludwig

By 1940, ALL Germans had been repressed NONE remained!!

CHRISTINA 2006

• Computer delivered to Koval as gift from GRHS member

• Dreams of creating a museum to remember the German people that founded his village

BERESAN MUSEUMS

Karlsruhe

Melnitskaya AntoninaStepovoyeMolodeznaya Street, 3Nikolaev DistrictNikolaev Region57107 Ukraine

Katharinental

Ovsyanizkaya, Ninaul.Lugovaya 7s. KaterinentalVeselinovskiy r-nNikolaevskaya57060 Ukraine

LETTER TRANSLATION PROJECT• Translations of “Der Staats-Anzeiger” letters• About 2000 already posted on GRHS webpage from

around the 1915 time period. • Total of 5800 letters from 4 microfilms• Volunteers contact Irma Katz <baldurgatefr@hotmail.com>

1996 Belitzer House in RastadtCourtesy of Michael Haag

Remains of Belitzer house 2003

TYPICAL LETTER SAMPLEEsmond, North Dakota11 October 1915Dear Staats Anzeiger!I would like to find the address of my brother Joseph Schwab from Mannheim in South Russia; he is a prisoner of war in Austria1. I am sending

Staats-Anzeiger a copy of a letter sent to me by my parents in South Russia. This letter may interest some of the readers. The letter is as follows:

Mannheim, 8 June 1915Dear Children,We find ourselves healthy, but we are very worried about our son Joseph. On 22 July 1914 he went off to fight the war and

was 44 days and nights under fire never having been wounded. On November 19 in Austria he was taken as a prisoner of war. Since then we have only a message from him. All we know is that he is in Austria. We had hoped that he has written you, but from your letter we see that he has not written. His wife and 2 children here are healthy, however very worried. If you are between 19 and 45 years old you are sent to the war. Peter’s son Ludwig is also in the war since February.

It is difficult here and very expensive. A Pud2 flour costs 3 Ruble and meat 20 Kopeken a pound and with that man can be happy when a person can find something. In the whole village we do not have a Pud of fruit and with the harvest being so bad .Winterfruit is not very good however you can hardly find summer fruit.

We have written 3 letters to Johannes already, however he has not answered and it has been a year already. We have cross enough to bear with Joseph and Johannes now also gives us worries. We have cried ourselves almost blind, that he has not written us. We don’t know why he hasn’t answered us.

Mannheimer soldiers that are dead are: The son of Johannes Biegler, Andreas Schneider’s son Balzer and the son of Karl Ludwig Weber. We are certain these 3 are dead, however there could be more, those we know nothing about.

The wounded are too many to count and there are many at home who are crippled. In almost every home you find wounded horses, wagons and dishes everything that is expensive, everything is taken away and money is not enough in coming.

Greetings from your sister and husband Peter Schmidt along with their children. Ludwig is also writing a letter. He would have written long ago, however he did not have the heart, since we not allowed to write or speak German.

Your parents Joseph and Johanna Schwab.That’s as far as the letter goes. It seems, they are all quite sad, since I have read a few in Staats Anzeiger already.

Greeting to everyone that reads this paper.Math Schwab

__________ .We can hardly deter mine, whether the prisoner of war in Aus tria woul d have this paper accessi ble to them. It is thus pure coincidence, if w e deter mine it can. We received $5 for the

paper and will write to them. F or the address lookup we can calculate on nothing, because we do not believe that we can find the address. I f however we do then it will make us happy - Editor, Staats Anzeiger

Translator's Note - 1 Pud is 36 Pounds

CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS PROJECT

• Have approx. 3800 pages of mixed records1869-1906

• Translations began Dec. 1998 – almost finished!!

• Inputting has been ongoing for the past 2-1/2years in Canada under Don Krassman Totenkeller in Rastadt

Courtesty Michael Haag

IMPORTANT EVENTS• TOWN MEETING –Saturday 3:30

– What’s happening?– Your chance to ask questions on any subject!

• GRHS MEMBERSHIP MEETING Saturday 10:00

Candidates for Board Positions this year:– Al Feist, current Member At Large– Debbie Beick– Gayla Gray– George Hoff– David Kilwien– Margaret Rehwalt

Important to vote for those candidates YOU feel will represent your needs the best!

VOLUNTEERS ALWAYS NEEDED

• Village Coordinators – many villages are still without a VC

• Translators – German or Russian – Contact Dale Wahl or Valerie Ingram

• Special Skills?? – Contact Dale Wahl

BDO Village in the DistanceCourtesty of Rose Hoff