Helenental Village Information

Region: Black Sea Founded: 1836/38 German Name: Helenental
Area: Odessa Religion: Evangelical Russian Name: Tschernogorka
District: Grossliebental (Liebental) Location: See notes below Ukrainian Name: Chernogorka
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Village Coordinator: Ralph Wiseman

Notes: Original settlers came from Leibental district. Helenental is located midway between Odessa and Nikolaiev, in the valley of the Uroditschee Balaitschuzky (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe). Stumpp book lists Helenental in the Liebental District but Giesinger book does not.

Pioneer settler surnames:.ADE, BARETH, BAUM, BECKER, BIBELHEIMER, FUCHS, GEIGLE, GIMBEL, GRENZ, HUMANN, HUST, KAST, KOCH, LAUDERMILCH, LENO, NATHAN, OBERLÄNDER, ROTH, SCHMIDT, SCHOCK, SIELER, STEIGER, WUNDER, ZEEB, ZIEGLER. (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height.)

Books
    Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (copy available at the GRHS Library)
   The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (page 600)
   From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (pages 102-105)
   Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height (pages 315-318, 320)

Census Records
   
Black Sea German Russian Census Volume 1 by GRHS
   Helenental Beresan District Odessa 1858 Census by GRHS and AHSGR

Church Records
   
St. Petersburg Archives Freudental Parish

1848 Village History

Plat Map: Homesteaders on the Steppe (page 317)

Articles
    GDO Newsletter - Helenental 1850 Birth Records -  Volume 1 Issue 1, page 7
                            Election of Helenental Beisitzer -
Volume 2 Issue 1, page 5

Ship Records

War Records
  
 EWZ Index for this Village

Repressions Database

Death Notices Database

Supplemental Information for this Village
    
Movement into and out of Bessarabian Villages
    Fond 134-2-134 - Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia 

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Regional Interest Group for this Village: Grossliebental District Odessa


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