Mintschuna, Bessarabia
The Regional Interest Group for this village is Bessarabia & Dobrudscha Chapter
Village Coordinator: Volunteer Needed
- Region: Black Sea
- Area: Bessarabia
- District: Bender
- Rayon:
- Founded: 1868
- Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
- Location: C-7 Stumpp Map
- Longitute and Latitude:
- Parish: Leipzig
- German Name: Mintschuna
- Russian Name:
- Ukrainian Name:
Remarks:
Population of 304 in 1904. Mintschuna was leased by 40 colonists from the mother colonies in Bessarabia. Most of them came from Arzis, Teplitz, Brienne, Leipzig, Borodino, and Paris.
Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 120)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.144), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 279-280.
War Records
- EWZ Records
- DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
- DAI Miscellaneous Reports
- Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
- Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative
Supplemental Information
- Bessarabia Head of Household Index
- Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
- Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
- Christian Fiess Indices
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