The Clearing House
The place to go to find out what is going on

The Clearing House serves as a center for the production and distribution of research aids and information designed to help researchers piece together the history of their Black Sea German-Russian ancestors. The main products of Clearing House efforts are recorded indices that are shared openly in digital form. Most of  these can be found in the Odessa Digital Library or in our Members Only Research Repository. Some items are sold in paper form from the GRHS Bookstore, while others are published in German-Russian district newsletters and the main GRHS publication, Heritage Review.

Some of the files on this page are stored in PDF format and require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to be viewed (Available at this link ).

Clearing House Project Coordinators  

Clearing House Projects:

Area Projects (focused on North American and Canadian communities our people settled in)

Kansas
Cheyenne County Kansas Census
St. Francis, KS - GR Names Index

Nebraska
Stockham NE German Congregation Birth Records 
Stockham NE German Congregation Death Records 
Stockham NE German Congregation Births and Deaths 
Sutton NE Clay County Church - Family Book Births
Sutton NE Clay County Church - Family Book Deaths
Sutton NE Clay County Church - Family Book Marriages
Sutton NE Emanuel Reformed Church - Marriages
Sutton NE Church - Births Index Part I 
Sutton NE Church - Deaths Index Part I and II 
Sutton NE German Evangelical Congregation Births
Sutton NE German Evangelical Congregation Confirmations 
Sutton NE German Evangelical Congregation Deaths 
Sutton NE German Evangelical Congregation Marriages
Sutton NE Hope Reformed Confirmation Records 
Sutton NE Hope Reformed Birth Records 
Sutton NE Hope Reformed Death Records 
Sutton NE Hope Reformed Membership List
Sutton NE Hope Reformed Marriage Records

North Dakota
Homesteader Links - ND

South Dakota
Akaska SD, Golden Anniversary, 1907-1957 
Eureka SD Lutheran Dreieinigkeit Membership List
Eureka SD Lutheran Birth Records
Eureka SD Lutheran Death Records
Eureka SD Lutheran Marriage Records
Eureka SD Hoffnungstal Birth Records
Eureka SD Hoffnungstal Confirmation Records
Eureka SD Hoffnungstal Death Records
Homesteader Links - SD 

Beresan Projects

        Landau Death Records 24 Jul 1860-18 Apr 1872

Bessarabian Projects

Bessarabian Index (Introduction)
Bessarabian Index 2, self extracting PC archive: Word and Excel
Bessarabia Village Names
Original Homeland & Emigration of Germans to Bessarabia, 1938
Film list for Bessarabian Index, Phase 2
Film list for Bessarabian Indes, Phase 3
Film list for Bessarabian Index, Phase 4
Immigration to Akkermann Kreis
Movement In and Out of Bessarabia

Cemetery Project

            North Dakota
            South Dakota

Census Projects

1900 McIntosh County North Dakota

1910 Otero County Colorado

1920 Otero County Colorado

Crimea Projects

Crimea Area Villages
Crimea 1852 - Those Outside of the Village
File 6-1-858 - The Journal of the Superintendent of Crimean Colonies (Summer-corns produced in 1814)
Heilbrunn 1850 Census
Introduction to German Villages on the Crimean Peninsula with Coordinates and Russian Names

St. Petersburg Parish Extractions
Sudak 1850 Census

Zuerichtal Birth Records, 183x

Zuerichtal Death Records, 183x

Zuerichtal Marriage Records, 183x

Death Notices

From old German newspapers in the U.S.

From Volk Auf Dem Weg publication in Germany (only GDO families have been indexed at this time)

         Family Books     

Bauder Family (464k PDF file)

Gross/Wipf Family  (8 MB PDF file)

Permann Family  (768k PDF file)

Permann Family Supplement (22k PDF file)

Tschetter/Hofer Family (6 MB PDF file)

Family Compilations             

Eider of Hoffnungstal Bessarabia
Eisenmann of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Fiechtner of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Leibbrandt of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Mehlhaf of Kassel Odessa
Mueller of Hoffnungstal Bessarabia
Naasz of Hoffnungstal Bessarabia
Ormann of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Rueb of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Schaffert of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Scheuffele of Bergdorf Odessa
Stepper of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Unger of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Vossler of Bessarabia
Wahl of Hoffnungstal Bessarabia
Wahl of Kassel Odessa
Wall of Hoffnungstal Odessa
Wutzle of Tarutino Bessarabia
Zweygardt of Hoffnungstal Odessa

General Interest Projects

Census Records
Evangelical Odessa Village Family List
German Russian Chronological History
German Russian Folk Medicine
Long German Russian Village List
Name to Village Index
Record Collections of Imperial Russian Consulates (US)
Record Collections of Imperial Russian Consulates (Canada)
St. Petersburg Information
Surname to Source Reference List
United States Federal Census 1890-1930
Village Gains and Losses (births/deaths/movements)
Village Histories

Glückstal Projects

EWZ Village-Family Database Project

• Bergdorf 
• Kassel
• Neudorf
• Glückstal

Glückstal Birth Records, 183x
Glückstal Death Records, 183x
Glückstal Marriage Records, 183x
Glückstal Birth Records, 184x
Glückstal Death Records, 184x
Glückstal Marriage Records, 184x
Glückstal Birth Records, 185x
Glückstal Death Records, 185x
Glückstal Marriage Records 185x
Glückstal Birth Records, 186x
Glückstal Death Records, 186x
Glückstal Marriage Records, 186x
Glückstal Birth Records, 187x
Glückstal Death Records, 187x
Glückstal Marriage Records, 187x
Glückstal Birth Records, 188x
Glückstal Death Records, 188x
Glückstal Marriage Records, 188x
Neu Glückstal Birth Records
Neu Glückstal Death Records 
Neudorf Reformed Birth Records, 1860-1900
Neudorf Reformed Marriage Records, 1860-1900
Neudorf Reformed Death Records, 1860-1900

Grossliebental District Odessa Projects

EWZ Village/Family Indices Project
Family Database Projects
Represions Database Project
St. Petersburg Annual Report 1899-1917 - Births, Deaths & Marriages
Ship Lists Project

Hoffnungstal Odessa Parish Projects

Hoffnungstal Odessa Parish Births and Deaths

Hungary Projects

Germany to Hungary to Russia Project
Immigration from Torza, Hungary to Russia
Tscherwenka Hungary 1785-1944 - Tscherwenkaer Familien

Indexing Projects

Christian Fiess Films  (See Introduction to Christian Fiess)

• Bessarabian Families Indices
• Odessa Families Indices
• German ORT Indices

DAI Film Indices 
EWZ Indices
 Koblenz Index Derivative  (See Introduction to Exodus Questionnaires/Forms)

Kutschurgan Projects

1881 Family Listings of Elsass Odessa Index

Map Projects

Bessarabia Map Indices
Dobrudscha Map Indices
Stumpp Maps 16 & 17 Index

Member's Corners/Korners

Allen Konrad - focuses mainly on Bessarabian families and villages  
Curt Renz - focuses on information regarding families mainly from BDO and GDO
Dale Wahl - focused on information regarding Karlstal, German origins and FÖHL Bessarabian database
Dwayne Janke - focuses mainly on Bessarabian families and villages
Elli Wise - focuses on Christian Fiess Film Collection Index, DAI Film Indices and EWZ Film Indices
Elvire Necker-Eberhardt - focuses mainly on Bessarabian families and villages
Gayla Gray - focuses on Germans from Hungary to Russia, GDO repressions, GDO ship lists, GDO death notices, and information on WOHL family from Alexanderhilf, Liebental District Odessa
Ingrid Reule - focuses mainly on information packets regarding families from Bessarabia, BDO and GDO
Lester Seibold and Vern Blumhagen - focuses on Black Sea Germans from Rumanian Dobrudja
Marilyn Holzworth - focuses mainly on information packets regarding Black Sea Odessa families 
Paul Reeb - focuses on the RÜB family and German Russians to Cheyenne County Kansas
Wilhelm P. Kemendic - focuses mainly on families from Worms, Beresan District Odessa

Mennonite Projects

Nikolaev Archive Projects  

        Fonds Listing
        Fond 484
        Fond 66

Odessa Archive Projects

Odessa StateArchives Listings - German Colonies in the South of Ukraine - Collection Fond List
Fond 6 Version A, (held at GRHS)
Fond 53 Partial Inventory
Fond 54 Kandel Inventory
Fond 55 Partial Inventory
Fond 56 Partial Inventory
Fond 61 Partial Inventory
Fond 63 Partial Inventory
Fond 64 Partial Inventory
Fond 65 Partial Inventory
Fond 66 Partial Inventory
Fond 67 Partial Inventory
Fond 68 Partial Inventory
Fond 68 Inventory
Fond 252 Files
Fond 352 Partial Inventory
Fond 630 Partial Inventory

1852 - Those Outside of the Village

Translations
Fond 6, Inventory 1, File 1526 - by Volker Haufler [German & English]

ORT Projects (focused on the old German communities our people lived in before traveling to old Russia)

Die Deutsche Auswanderung Nach Russland 1763-1862
Die Planerkolonien am Asowschen Meere, Tables 1-3
Grötzingen, Württemberg - surname HESS
Fellbach, Wuerttemberg
German Origins Index
Grünwettersbach, Baden
Holzerlingen, Böblingen, Württemberg - surname Gauß
Hopf List of German Emigrants from Poland to Russia
Mössingen Family Files
Mössingen Map
Ostwanderung der Wuerttemberger 1816-1822
Ostwanderung der Wuerttemberger, Tables 1-18
Ostwanderung der Wuerttemberger, Tables 19-24
Ostwanderung der Wuerttemberger, Tables p. 132-204
Weissach, Vaihingen, Württemberg - surname REULE (1)
Weissach, Vaihingen, Württemberg - surname REULE (2)

Outside the Black Sea Area

         Helwar Military Documents from Volga Village of Erlenbach

Parishes

Crimea  (1905)

Odessa (1905)

Ship Projects

GDO Ship List Project
New York Arrival of Ship EMS, 7 Nov 1885

St. Petersburg Parish Extraction Projects (Introduction)

• Crimea/Taurien
• Grossliebental Odessa -  Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Beresan Odessa

Taurien Projects

Taurien Surnames - St. Pete "Quick" Index

War Records

Background - Captured German Documents

Captured German Documents Index, Films 1-4, Families

Captured German Documents Index, Films 5-7, Families

Captured German Documents Index, Film 1, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Film 2, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Film 3, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Film 4, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Film 5, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Films 6-7, Marriages

Captured German Documents Index, Films 1-7, Family Questionnaires

Captured German Documents Index, Films 1-4, Villages

DAI Film Indices
DAI 302 Film Index (Erdmann Family of Bessarabia)

DAI 305 Film Index (Dobrudscha Families 1940/1941)
DAI 305 Film Index (Dobrudscha Families 1940/1941)
DAI 305 Film Index (Hahn Family from Dobrudscha )
DAI 317 Film Index (Germans in Bessarabia - 1940)
DAI 317 Film Index (Bessarabian Academics)
DAI 317 Film Index (Bessarabian Resettlers)
DAI 597 Film Index (Luebuck Marriage Listing)
DAI 598 Film Index (Germans in Neu Strymba Bessarabia)
DAI 599 Film Index (Württemberg Emigrants to Russia)
DAI 599 Film Index (Reichert Questionnaires)
DAI 600 Film Index (Grossliebental Odessa - 1816 Partial Census)
DAI 600 Film Index (Passports Taurien)
DAI 600 Film Index (Letter from Dr. Karl Stumpp to Eduard Krause)
DAI 606 Film Index (Germans in Chorol Rayon)
DAI 606 Film Index (Berdjansk Germans)
DAI 609 Film Index (Andreburg Taurien)
DAI 609 Film Index (Friedrichsfeld Taurien)
DAI 609 Film Index (Gruental Taurien)
DAI 609 Film Index (Karlsruh Taurien)
DAI 609 Film Index (HOPF File 01)
DAI 610 Film Index (HOPF FIle 02)
DAI 623 Film Index (Mennonites from Prussia - 1818)
DAI 623 Film Index (Benkendorf Bessarabia)

DAI 624 Film Index (Neufall Bessarabia Contract)
DAI 628 Film Index (Family Data)
DAI 630, 631, 632 Film Indices (1918 Questionnaires)

DAI 635 Film Index (Multiple Villages)
DAI 636 Film Index (Multiple Villages)
DAI 636 Film Index (German Russians in the North Caucasus)

EWZ Indices
North Dakota WWI Draft Registrations