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jeruslan

 

Jeruslan Nachrichten
Lower Jeruslan River Colonies Research Project

 

Welcome to Jeruslan Nachrichten
This is the data research project for descendants of the Wiesensite daughter villages along the southern Jeruslan River in Russia. These villages once comprised the Gnadenthau Evangelical Lutheran Church Parish: Wiesenmüller, Gnadenthau, Friedenberg, Blumenfeldt, Morgentau, Kana, Strassburg, Frankreich, Weimar and Neu-Galka.

The information found on this site represents research data collected by Betty Ashley and Sue Kottwitz.  Our data from Russia includes information our project purchased from RAGAS and Dr. Igor Pleve, as well as research purchased by individuals and given to us.

Please follow the links to check for data on your village(s) and surname(s). You should use the "edit - find on this page" function on your browser for a quick check of each page of this website. Be sure to check all variations of spelling you can think of - remember many of these records have been translated from handwritten Russian and German.

Please note that photographs have been added for some of the villages. (Please go to your villages of interest and look for links.) .

If you find that you have corrections or additions to any data found here, please contact Sue Kottwitz.

 

 

Individual Village Data

  

Data Common to All Our  Villages

  

General
  • Wiesenmüller
  • Gnadenthau
  • Friedenberg
  • Blumenfeldt
  • Morgentau
  • Kana
  • Strassburg
  • Frankreich
  • Weimar
  • Neu-Galka

 

 

 

 

 

  
  • Family Genealogy Data  -  By Surname
  • Ships Lists
  • Revision (Census) Lists - by Village / Year / One Surname
  • Obituaries
  • Queries from Abroad
  • Jeruslan Nachrichten - Articles from our newsletters 1994 - 1999
  • Meanings of Ger-Rus Names
  • 1775 Grimm Census Surname Extraction
  • 1798 Grimm Census Surname Extraction
  • 1775 & 1798 Beideck Census - list of Wiesenmuller, Gnadenthau, Friedenberg surnames
  • Schaefers Here There Everywhere by Betty Ashley
  • Wiesenmuller Verwandtschaften (book) by Betty Ashley
  • Ahrenfeld Settler Surnames from Brent Mai
  • It Takes a Village - Searching for German Russian Ancestors
  • Extractions of Wiesenmullerin from 1913/15 Lincoln Nebraska GR Census/Survey - Mother Colonies listed
  • Muller Original Settlers from Bill Wiest
  • Village News from Bill Wiest, 1995
  • Colorado Naturalizations - Surname Extraction
  • Census Lists for Volga Colonies translated into English by Brent Mai
  
  • 1910 US Census - Germans from Russia in Russell County, Kansas
  • The Records of St Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rocky Ford, CO
  • The Records of Immanuel German Congregational Church Rocky Ford, CO
  • Peace Lutheran Church Cemetery, Alexander, KS
  • A Typical Volga German Life Story by Milla Tokareva Koretnikova
  • Almost to Siberia by Sue Kottwitz
  • Muth / Bechtold Connection by Ruth Muth Grenard
  • Die Welt-Post 1922 Refugees Living in Polotsk from Hugh Lichtenwald
  • Die Welt-Post 1922 Refugees Living in Minsk from Hugh Lichtenwald
  • Kvas Memories from Rosalie Eichman

  • The Youth Union of the Volga Germans - letter from Saratov

  • Research Procedures & Tips by Betty Ashley
  • LDS Research Tips
  • Maps
  • Helpful Links
 

Featured Articles:

  • Kana to Canada: The Journey of a Lifetime by Ken Dill

  • Wiesenmuller  -  The Descendants of Johann Georg Schaefer from Larisa Schaefer Huse and Hugh Lictenwald

  • Wiesenmuller - The Story of Jakob Michaelis 1906-1947 from Larisa Schaefer Huse and Hugh Lichtenwald

  • Wiesenmuller -  Marriages 1894 & 1895 from Hugh Lichtenwald;   plus Photos

  • Gnadenthau -  Photos added

  • Family Genealogy Data -  from our Database

  • Die Welt-Post 1922 Refugees  -  Living in Polotsk and Living in Minsk from Hugh Lichtenwald
  • Wiesenmuller Verwandtschaften (book) by Betty Ashley including maps
  • Wiesenmuller 1913 Birth/Baptismal Records from Hugh Lichtenwald
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  • Morgantau Original Settlers  
  • Muller Original Settlers including their villages in Germany and occupation
  • Extractions of Wiesenmullerin from 1913/15 Lincoln Nebraska GR Census/Survey - Other villages listed.
  • Friedenberg Original Settlers
  • Blumenfeldt Original Settlers
  • Kana Original Settlers
  • Colorado Naturalization Records - Surname Extractions for Blumenfeldt, Friedenberg, Gnadenthau, Kana, Morgentau & Wiesenmuller
  • Census Lists for Volga Colonies - translated into English by Brent Mai

 

     
  The Yeruslan (Jeruslan) River is in the Saratov Oblast and Volgograd Oblast in Russia.  It is a left tributary of the Volga River. 

It is 278 km long, origins at the southwestern slope of the Obshchy Syrt and flows to the Yeruslan Cove of the Volgograd Reservoir.  The Yeruslan has the left inflow of the Solyonaya Kuba River.  The former left tributary Torgun River currently flows to the Yeruslan Cove.  The town of Krasny Kut is located alongside the Yeruslan River.

At summer the Yeruslan dries up and in some places has salty water.                                                                   from Wikipedia

  
     

 
Chasing a phantom through a maze... 

Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names.  At some point the search becomes futile... there is nothing left to find, no meaning to be dredged out of old receipts, newspaper articles, letters, accounts of events that seemed so important fifty or seventy years ago.  All that remains is the insane urge to keep looking, insane because the searcher has no idea what he seeks.  What will it be?  A photograph?  A will?  A fragment of a letter?  The only way to find out is to look at everything, because it is often when the searcher has gone far beyond the border of futility that he find the object he never knew he was looking for.  ~Henry Wiencek

 

 

 

 


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