What's New
New Webmaster is needed for the BESS RIG. Contact Elaine Morrison ![]()
Volunteers are working to get our links corrected. Stay tuned.
Mia Boster made a template for the BESS RIG and a few "get started" pages (thank you Mia!)
August 2011
July 2011
- Bortscheag marriage, births, and family names from Elvire Necker-Eberhardt
May 2010
- Der Gottlieb, a poem in German dialect (from the Dale Wahl Collection)
- Link to 1883 map of Bessarabia
- Links to translated articles from the Mitteilungsblatt (published by the Bessarabiendeutsche Verein)
- Lists of origins of settlers for Beresina, Borodino, Kloestitz, Leipzig (from the Dale Wahl Collection)
- Additional Bortscheag confirmations, discovered in Galatz, on Elvire Necker-Eberhardt's Korner
- Lists of Bessarabian settlers who died in Crimea or had children in Crimea (from the Bess Migration page)
- Index of Harvey, ND 1981 town history book (from the Town History Book page)
- 1870 census for Benkendorf (from the Bess Census page)
- Extractions of Alt Posttal family data compiled by Darla Anhorn Lee (from the Dale Wahl Collection; see Bess Family/Surname Research page)
- Added links to some online maps (Bess Village Research page)
- Added 1994 Return to Tarutino (4 MB pdf file) by Mark Suko (the Bess Village Research page). (From the Dale Wahl Collection)
- Updated ND church info for Dickey, LaMoure, Logan, and McIntosh Counties on Allen Konrad's Korner
- Added Bessarabian Marriage Customs (from the Golden Prairie history book & the Dale Wahl Collection)
- Added links to Agriculture and History on the Bessarabia History & Culture page
- Added examples of a Parochialschein (Parish Certificate) on Research-Migration page
- Fixed link to online images of St. Pete records on Research-Church records page
- Added link to database of Polish marriages to the Bessarabian Origins-Poland/Prussia Research page
- Added more death notices to Mitteilungsblatt GEDCOM
- Added photos to the Gallery of Unknowns
- Deleted link from Bessarabia Family Origins page to Valerie Ingram's database of Catholic families which she's removed from the website.
- Added info to Unter Albota village page, including a history of the village and the families who settled there.
- Flaig family database added to the Genealogy Database. (Actually happened in October, but I missed noting it here.)
- Added map to Unter Albota village page
