GRHS Page

Germans from Russia Heritage Society
1125 West Turnpike Avenue
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501
Telephone: (701) 223-6167

ABOUT GRHS

Office Manager: Rachel Schmidt
Email:

Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday-Friday Central Time
GRHS is a 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization

Membership in GRHS
Germans from Russia Heritage and Culture
The GRHS Organization :
- A brief History of the GRHS Organization
- Articles of Incorporation
- Bylaws (including changes approved by members at the 2007 GRHS convention)
- The GRHS Endowment Fund (charitable contributions to GRHS)
- Copyright Policy and Permission Forms
- Publishing Policies and Procedures
- Board of Directors (includes Elected directors for 2006-2007, Meeting minutes, Street addresses and Email addresses)
- Current Committee Appointments (includes Appointments for 2006-2007, Street addresses and Email addresses)
- Annual Reports
GRHS Conventions (2008 Convention information available here!)
Visit our Society Headquarters in Bismarck, ND
Research Services available at our HQ
GRHS Chapters :
- Chapters (local groups of GRHS members)
- Regional Interest Groups (geographically diverse groups of GRHS members focusing on families from particular areas in Russia)
GRHS Projects :
- GRHS Obituaries online project (GRHS members have been clipping obituaries from newspapers since the societies founding. They are housed in GRHS headquarters and an index is maintained here)
- The GRHS Letter Archive (the society has been collecting letters from various sources written to and from Russia)
- The Village Research Project :
  - The Clearing House (Coordinates overall research activities in GRHS)
  - Village Coordinators (Volunteers who are the research focal point for Black Sea German villages)
  - Area Coordinators (Volunteers who are the research focal point for geographical areas within the US and Canada)
  - Ort Coordinators (Volunteers who are the research focal point for geographical areas within the homeland (Germany)
- The Surname Exchange
- The Online Map Collection
- The Alice Essig Informational Cards Collection (Alice Essig worked for over 20 years to create index cards for about 12,000 individuals who were researched at GRHS)
GRHS Publications :
- The Heritage Review (Index from 1971 - 2000)
  The Heritage Review is now available on-line to GRHS members.
  A sample of the Heritage Review is available here (from HR 1971-1982 on CDROM on sale at the eStore)
- Der Staummbaum (now only available on-line)
- The "GRHS News" Newsletter (included with Heritage Review starting March 2007)
- Village Research Project Newsletters
- Chapter and Regional Interest Group Newsletters
The GRHS Library
The GRHS Store

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