Family Surnames and other sources
In addition to church, census, and resettlement records, there are a number of other sources for finding out more about your Grossliebental families. Contactgdo @ grhs.org if you have family-specific information you'd like to share!
Family databases & compilations
Links
to specific family databases and compilations
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GRHS-GDO genealogy database (search surnames online) -
Grossliebental
district family databases (not searchable, listed by village
and surname)
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EWZ
Village/Family Database (war records
sorted by village and family)
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Repressions
database (GDO focused, sorted by village and surname)
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Family genealogy reports from the Clearing House page [broken]
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Beresan
District family databases (by village, see end of list)
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Bessarabian family databases [broken]
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Check other Regional Interest Groups for family databases
- Grossliebental Deaths in Aug. and Sep. 1919 Insurrection [broken]
Death notices and obituaries
Obituaries and death notices are great
sources of family information. Death notices are usually more informal
than an obituary; often these are just a mention
in a letter published in a German-language newspaper that someone has
died.
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Death
notices (mainly from Volk auf dem Weg for GDO families; key
facts available online)
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Death
notices published in German-language newspapers [broken] (available
online via searchable database)
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Obits held in GRHS Library (index online but must contact GRHS to get a copy of the obit, many sources) from GRHS>RESEARCH>CLEARING HOUSE>VILLAGE RESEARCH PROJECT>OBITUARIES
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Obits for Bessarabia & Dobrudscha
Germans [broken] (available online, mostly from German-language
newspapers)
Movement of colonists
The archives in Ukraine have many documents that mention the movement of colonists from one location to another, within Russia or from other places. Often these are documents are requesting or granting permission to change colonies.
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Movement
into and out of Bessarabia villages relates to the following GDO
villages: Alexanderhilf, Franzfeld, Freudental,
Grossliebental, Güldendorf, Helenental, Kleinliebental, Lustdorf, Neu
Freudental, Neuburg and Peterstal
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Family Registry Gochsen, Nekarsulm, Wuerttemberg -
Barreth, Jäger, Kress from Freudental and Mariental
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134-2-134 -
Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia (134-2-134) contains information on settlers from the
following GDO villages: Franzfeld, Freudental, Grossliebental,
Güldendorf, Helenental, Neu Freudental, and Peterstal
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252-1-257 - Settlers who
were to go to Grusien but are in the Odessa region
Additional family information
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Index by surname: A-L
and
M-Z [both broken] (shows name, birth year, village)
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DAI
600 Film Index [broken] (Grossliebental Odessa - 1816 Partial
Census)
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KREIS of Alexanderhilf and Liebental District (provided by Martin R. Schock)
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RENSCHLER of Freudental and Neu Freudental, Odessa (provided by Martin R. Schock)
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ROTH of Alexanderhilf, Peterstal and Leibental District (provided by Martin R. Schock)
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SCHAFFNER of Neuburg and Liebental District (provided by Martin R. Schock)
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SCHOCK of Peterstal and Liebental District (provided by Martin R. Schock)
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WAGNER of Neuburg and Liebental District (provided by Martin R. Schock)
Colonist Status Files
Family photos
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Unknown Grossliebental photos [broken] (Do you recognize any of these?)
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Unknown photos [broken] (other Regional Interest Groups)
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Representative family photos [broken] (typical poses and types of GR family photos)