German Russian Sites to See

 I have tried to include a listing here of sites that may be of interest to the GR researcher in general , as well as to the Crimea GR researchers.

AHSGR

American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Includes a Master Listing of people researching the Germans from Russia, VC listing, bibliography of holdings, charts, maps, and books for purchase as well as family ancestral charts and much more

Banat Webpage

Includes a bibliography of books of interest to those with roots in the Banat regions which include Hungary and Yugoslavia.  Some villages from Tepliz, Bessarbia came to Bessarabia via Hungary.   There is also a link to a wonderful webiste full of refernce materials for the Danube-Swabians.

Bessarabian Website

This page is going to contain many, many important features for the Bessarabian researcher when complete.  There is a FAQ that explains the St. Petersburg microfilms, and many research questions about Bessarabia  There is also a VC listing, access to the Bessarbian Newsletter, information about the records retrieval project and much more to come.

Beresan Website
(BDO)

Includes the 11 original villages of Johannestal, Karlsruhe, Katharinental, Laundau, Munchen, Rastadt, Rohrbach, Speyer, Sulz, Waterloo, and Worms and information the many daughter colonies.
Includes maps, VC lists, FAQ’s, list serv information, newsletter information, village histories and more.

Cyndi’s List of GERMANS FROM RUSSIA Genealogical Sites

Cyndi’s list is updated often, so keep an eye out on this one?  Or better yet, use the MindLink option provided to receive notification by email when the page is updated.  Links here are ones that have been submitted to Cyndi for inclusion on her site, but they cover the GR sites pretty well.  Be sure to bookmark this one!

Borodino Web Site

Lots of information here!  Surnames, family histories, links to personal homepages of families with ties here, Borodino resources, books, maps, pictures, migration information, links to German sites, and much more. 
Plan to spend some time here browsing all the site has to offer.

Dobrudscha Webpage

Webpage offering information on the location of Dobruscha as well as some information on the archives, historical societies, where to obtain maps, immigrants to Dobruscha, and some information on obtaining the EWZ series of immigrants records.  Mainly useful for background information on the region.

FEEFHS

Federation of Eastern Europeons Foundation Historical Societies.  The site is as long on information as it’s name...take LOTS of time here, you will find a massive amount of information, more than you can ever begin to digest.  Get your printer ready and take a look. The site boasts “3891 files to browse,” and I believe it!  Includes a much needed search engine.

Germans from Russia and the C.I.S. States

Provides some background information on Bessarbia, Volhynia, and other regions the GR’s migrated to in Russia.  Includes links to our old favorites, GRHS, AHSGR, the Odessa site, FEEFHS, and a few others.  Also includes information on some archives and maps and what is available for each region in terms of LDS microfilms and current extraction projects.

Gluekstal Website

Harold Ehrmnn’s Glueckstal colonies web site includes information on the villages of Glueckstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, Kassel, and Hoffnungstal, Odessa.  The site contains village information, databases, contributed family histories, and death statistics.
It also includes the Odessa Mass Executions listing. 
Also included are many links to other sites, computer programs, search engines, and some SD genealogy websites.

GR Research Marketplace

David Obee has set up a page that lists many books for sale from the private sector including some town jubilee books.  Good place to look for those hard to find books.
Also some personal history on his families and the Volynian and Volga areas.

GRHS

Germans from Russia Historical Society Homepage
Includes a bibliography of book holdings, books, maps, and miscellaneous for sale, VC listings, information about upcomoing conventions and much more

Krassna, Bessarabia Website

Lots of pictures of the village here!  Also a village history and some other information about the village.  Not much in the way of research materials for other individuals, however, the pictures alone make this a worthwhile stop.

Kutschurgan Website

Includes the villages of Selz, Kandel, Baden, Mannheim, Elsass, and Strassburg.

Manifesto of Catherine the Great

This doesn’t really fit in a links to websites page, but....I think it is an important document in GR history and thank whomever took the time to transcribe it an make it available online for fellow researchers.  There is also a migration timeline which indicates where immigrants came from and what villages or areas in Russia the migrated to.
 

NDSU

Plenty of information to browse here.  Books, maps, and other items for sale, upcoming “Journey to the Homeland” Tour information, pictures and rememberances of past tours, listserv subscription information, museum items, and much more

Odessa

More commonly called the “pixel”  A must see for all GR researchers...over 100mb of information available at this site.  Includes St. Petersburg record extractions, the Bessarbian Head-of-Households index, cemetery listings, GEDCOMS, obituaries, plat map indexes, the Mennonite Census listing, much too much to mention.  Plan to spend some serious research time here....

Pteranodon’s View: World and Global History

A world view of history, quite an interesting page!  Includes history of the areas of Crimea and Taurien (Tavrida), life in Imperial Russia with a special view on the Crimea and surrounding areas, links to GR websites, German dictionaries, Crimean websites, and even a link to add Cyrllic to your computer. 

Wandering Volhynian’s

This is part of the huge FEEFHS site.  Be sure to take a good look around, many of th resources for the Wandering Volhynian’s site are intermingled in the FEEFHS site, so be sure not to miss anything!