Village Coordinators:  Elena Gabriel, Rosemary Hoff and Mary Marando                     

Notes: Original name was Karagol and listed as found in 1805/09 according to Eduard Mack’s book Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa. Stumpp book reflects "13 families from Hungary (Temesvar and Kula) again departed. In 1806 – 1809 thirty-eight families came from Alsace and the Rhine Palatinate." This would tend to reflect why the earlier 1805 founding date, and also reflect why others use the founding date of 1808.

Pioneer settler surnames: Art, Bauer, Becker, Bischof, Braun, Busch, Deck, Dorzapf, Eckstat, Fix, Frank, Freihaut, Gotz, Hatterle, Heer, Heissler, Hilsendeger, Job, Kaiser, Kohler, Leibham, Matery, Matsom, Merdian, Mock, Nold, Rammel, Reide, Riffel, Rissling, Schaub, Schmidt, Stengler, Uhl, Ulm, Wagner, Zerr. (Source: Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack.).

Books
    Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack.
    From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger
    Paradise on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height
    The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (includes 1816 census)
    The German Colonies in South Russia 1804-1904, Volume 1 by Rev. Conrad Keller
    Franzfeld the Early Years by Thomas Joseph Hoffman (Book is no longer available but Elena Gabriel has a copy)

Census Records
    1812 Liebental District Odessa Census by GRHS
    Black Sea German Russian Census Volume 1 by GRHS
    Franzfeld Liebental District Odessa 1858 Census by GRHS and AHSGR
    Franzfeld Census [1812 - 1816 - 1858 plus 1863 - 1902 Registers]

Church Records
    St. Petersburg Archives Freudental Parish for the years 183X – 188X
    St. Petersburg Annual Reports of 1899-1911

Village History: Paradise on the Steppe (page 17 and 259) and The German Colonies in South Russia 1804-1904, Volume 1 (pages 201 – 238)

Plat Maps: Paradise on the Steppe (page 262), The German Colonies in South Russia 1804-1904, Volume 1 (page 202) and Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa (page 266). 

Website:  Ancestors from Russia by Valery Mock: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~odcolonies/franzfeld/index.htm

Articles
    GDO Newsletter - Franzfeld Russian Documents Discovered - Volume 3 Issue 2, page 3

Ship Records

Franzfeld Family Database

War Records
    EWZ Index for this Village  A-J & K-Z

Death Notices Database

Supplemental Information for this Village
     Movement into and out of Bessarabian Villages
     Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (births/deaths/marriages)
     Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (Statistics)
    Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (births/deaths/marriages)
    Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (Statistics)
    Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (births/deaths/marriages)
    Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (Statistics)
     Fond 252-1-46 GDO Marriages 1817/1818
     Fond R-2106 - List of the District and Village Revolutionary Committees, Grossliebental District, Odessa Gebiet February 23, 1920
     Fond 252-1-280 - Wheat Distribution/Borrowing
    Keller zipped files
     Fond 134-2-134 - Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia