Grossliebental Family
GDO families came from Hungary as well as Germany and Poland/Prussia. Many of the GDO village data sheets list the names of the pioneer settlers.
Immigration and moving about in South Russia
252-1-229 - Emigrant families to Grossliebental District references surnames WAHL, KIEMELE, MEYER, BETZ and KLEPFER (Chasing those dead people by Dale Wahl)
252-1-229 - Emigrant families to GDO 1819 -1833 references surnames EBEL, KOPP, OTTO, SCHMID, STOLPP, and WÜST.
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
- Family Registry Gochsen, Nekarsulm, Wuerttemberg - Barreth, Jäger, Kress from Freudental and Mariental
1852 - Those Outside of the Village
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
252-1-257 - Settlers who were to go to Grusien but are in the Odessa region
Passport & Transport lists from GRHS Clearinghouse (includes archives lists from 1809 and 1803-1894)
- The Black Sea German-Russian Census Vol. I (available at the GRHS Store) has censuses from many of the Odessa-area villages. See the index of surnames.
Researching families in Germany
How to Research Your Ancestors in Germany - from the Heritage Review (June 2008)
- GRHS Ort Coordinators (OCs) - volunteers who can help you research your German village of ochaptersin
- German Ort Indexes from the Christian Fiess files (by German village)
- Ort projects from the Clearing House include several compilations of research from German villages
Elli's Korner includes a list of some emigrants from Württemberg (DAI film 599) and a Lübeck marriage list with some German village ochaptersins (DAI film 597)
Ingrid Reule's Korner includes lists of emigrants from several German villages
Allen Konrad's Korner has many documents related to families from Germany
- Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg online search engine for emigrants from Baden, Württemberg, and Hohenzollern
- Alsace (aka Elsaß) Genealogy Genwiki
Researching families in Hungary
Some German families came to Russia after spending one or more generations in Hungary.
- History of Germans to Hungary and list of surnames by Hungarian village
Germans from Hungary to Russia database
- Clearing House Hungary projects
- From Germany to Hungary to Russia, a presentation from the 2007 & 2008 GRHS conventions
- Sammelwerk donauschwäbischer Kolonisten by Stefan Stader - a fabulous compilation of info on Germans in Hungary. Some books available on microfilm from the FHL.
Researching families in Poland & Prussia
A number of German families, the "Warsaw Colonists," emigrated from Poland/Prussia to Russia. (Due to border changes, sometimes the area where they lived was called "South Prussia" and sometimes "Poland.")
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Resources for researching Germans in Poland