The Clearing House
Clearing House Project Coordinators

• Primary research component of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society
• Minimize duplication of efforts and ensure products are consistent with the most important media and formats
• Center for the production and distribution of research aids and information designed to help researchers
• Results are below, or on the Odessa Digital Library or GRHS RIG Chapter web pages
• Some items are sold in paper form from the GRHS Bookstore, while others are published in the main GRHS publication, Heritage Review

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Clearing House Projects:

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

Beresan Projects (see BDO RIG website)

Bessarabian Projects 

Caucasus Area

• Bolshevik Destruction of Gnadenburg in the Caucasus

Cemetery Project (see also Cemetery Projects on Odessa Digital Library)

Canada

Colorado

Montana

North Dakota

South Dakota

Census Records

Churches, Church Books and Church Records (also see St. Petersburg Parish Archives)

• Bessarabia Church Records
• St. Petersburg Extraction Project

Crimea Projects

Death Notices

• From old German newspapers in the U.S.
• From Volk Auf Dem Weg publication in Germany
  • Grossliebental District Odessa
  • Kutschurgan District Odessa

Dobrudscha

       Family Books (available online as PDF files)

Family Databases

• Beresan District Odessa (see BDO RIG website)
• Grossliebental District Odessa

Family Genealogy Reports              

General Interest Projects

• German Russian Chronological History
• German Russian Folk Medicine
• Record Collections of Imperial Russian Consulates (US and Canada)
• Village Histories

Glückstal Projects

Grossliebental District Odessa Projects

Hoffnungstal Odessa Parish Projects

Hungary Projects

• 1938 Stump Book
• Germany to Hungary to Russia Project
• Immigration from Torza, Hungary to Russia
• Tscherwenka Hungary 1785-1944 - Tscherwenkaer Familien

Immigration Records

Indexing Projects

Kutschurgan Projects

Land Records

Map Projects (also see our Online Map Collection)

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

Member's Corners/Korners

Mennonite Projects

Newspapers

Nikolaev Archive Projects  

• Fonds Listing
• Fond 484
• Fond 66

Obituaries  (also see Death Notices and Obituary Project)

• Bessarabia and Dobrudscha

Odessa Archive Projects

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

Outside the Black Sea Area

• Helwar Military Documents from Volga Village of Erlenbach

Parishes

• Crimea  (1905)
• Odessa (1905)

Passports and Transport Lists

• 1809 Passports
• Transports from Germany to South Russia Dubossari Quarantine Station 1803-1804 (Fond 1-220-13)

Photo Galleries

• 2008 September - Aspenleiter Ukraine Photos (Bessarabia, Beresan, Grossliebental)
• 2001 Bessarabia Photo Gallery by Elli Wise, Elaine Morrison, & Carolyn Schott; Beresina photos from Frieda Gaff collection
• 1993 Herb Poppke Photo Gallery - Glückstal, Shitomer, Teplitz, Grossliebental

Prussia/Poland Projects (see GP-PR RIG website)

Ship Projects

• GDO Ship List Project
• Ship and Immigration Records

St. Petersburg Parish Extraction Projects (Introduction)

• Beresan Odessa 1899-1917
• Crimea/Taurien 1899-1917
• Grossliebental Odessa 1899-1917 -  Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Parish Index to the Church Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory of St. Petersburg, 1833-1885 by Thomas Kent Edlund (also available Sorted by Village and Sorted by Year/Sequence Number
(Note: the reference numbers on these files are those of the LDS files and these films can be made available at any LDS branch library or online at http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/)
• St. Petersburg Parish Archives 183X - 1888X

Taurien Projects

• Taurien Surnames - St. Pete "Quick" Index

Timelines

• Bessarabia Village Timelines
• Russian
• Founding of the German-Russian colonies timeline

Unknown Photographs

• Bessarabia Area Photographs
• Grossliebental Area Photographs
• Hoffnungstal Odessa Parish Photographs
• Kutschurgan Area Photographs

War Records