Grossliebental Family Origins
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: [Repaired]
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 [broken] 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
- [broken] How
to Research Your Ancestors in Germany- from the Heritage
Review (June 2008)
- [broken] GRHS Ort Coordinators (OCs) - volunteers who can help you research your German village of ochaptersin
- [broken] German Ort Indexes from the Christian Fiess files [repaired 2/21/25 but no files found on this page] (by German village) Christian Fiess biography [New 2/21/25]
- Ort projects from the Clearing House [repaired 2/20] include several compilations of research from German villages
- Removed due to a member who
did not follow the 'terms and conditions of use':
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)
- Removed due to a member who
did not follow the 'terms and conditions of use':
Ingrid
Reule's Korner includes lists
of emigrants from several German villages
- [Repaired] 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
- [repaired 2/21/25] 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 [broken]
- From Germany to Hungary to Russia, a presentation from the 2007 & 2008 GRHS conventions
- Sammelwerk donauschwäbischer Kolonisten [Repaired 2/21/25] 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