Notes: Freudental was also known as Nikolajewskoje and Alt Freudental.

Pioneer Settler Surnames: Abel, Albrecht, Arnold, Backer, Bauer, Becker, Bechtold, Bischof, Bitz, Büttmann, Christmann, Döbler, Ebinger, Engel, Enzi, Erbs(t), Frank, Freier, Frisch, Gassert, Genther, Geissler, Gerhard, Glaser, Gottfried, Grauer, Hartenstein, Hassert, Haug, Heinzmann, Jauch, Jäger, Kappel, Ketterer, Kloz, Kramer, Kraus, Kugler, Laubenstein, Lehr, Lorenz, Losing, Maier, Mehl, Möbius, Mollenkopf, Neher, Neumüller, Niethan, Oft, Olhäuser, Orscheit, Ort, Oster, Pfaff, Philippi, Reitz, Rommel, Schatz, Schell, Schenkenberger, Schillinger, Schlecht, Schmidt, Schuler, Sieler, Stolz, Strauss, Theurer, Vogel, Volk, Wagner, Walker, Walter, Weber, Weingärtner, Welker, Wolf, Ziegler, Zisch. (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height and Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack.).

The settlers highlighted in bold arrived in Freudental via Hungary. Some of the settlers spent very little time (one winter) in Hungary while others were there much longer. For more information on Germans from Hungary to Russia click on the Hungary to Russia link.

Books
    Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (copy available at the GRHS Library)
   Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack (pages 233-252)
   From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (pages 102-105)
   Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height (pages 82, 183-185, 345-346)
   The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pages 572-576)

Plat Map: Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack (page 252)

Village History - 1848

Census Records
    Black Sea German Russian Census Volume 1 by GRHS
   Liebental District Odessa 1812 Census by GRHS
   Freudental Liebental District Odessa 1858 Census by GRHS

Church Records
    Freudental Liebental District Odessa 1841 – 1860 Church Family Book by GRHS
   Freudental Liebental District Odessa 1861 – 1880 Church Family Book by GRHS
   The St. Petersburg Archives Freudental Parish for the years 183X – 188X
   St. Petersburg Annual Reports 1899-1917

Articles
    GDO Newsletter - Story of the Bread People from Freudental
    GDO Newsletter - Tracing Ancestors from Hungary to Village of Freudental, Hungary to Freudental Supplement

Ship Records

Freudental Family Database

War Records
    EWZ Index for this Village
   Koblenz Index for this Village

Repressions Database

Death Notices Database

Supplemental Information
    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 252-1-7 GDO Marriages 1816
    Fond 252-1-46 GDO Marriages 1817/1818
 
    Fond 252-1-280 - Wheat Distribution/Borrowing
    Family Registry Gochsen, Nekarsulm, Wuerttemberg - Barreth, Jäger, Kress from Freudental and Mariental
    Fond 134-2-134 - Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia 

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Regional Interest Group for this Village: Grossliebental District Odessa