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Title and Physical Description
Timothy Paul Janzen (1960- ) collection. -- 1914-1921; 2005. -- 1 electronic record (xls), 6 maps (jpg)

Administrative/Biographical History
Timothy Paul Janzen, born in Salem, Oregon in 1960 to Robert Janzen and Betty Youngman. He is married to Rachel Ann Sauter, with whom he has four children: Paul, Marilee, Andrew and Bethany.

Timothy is a family physician living in Portland, Oregon. He makes extensive contributions to the Mennonite and Germans-from-Russia family history community through his volunteering and philanthropic efforts. He has been an active member of the California Mennonite Historical Society committee that overseess the GRANDMA (Genealogical Register ANd Database of Mennonite Ancestry) Project, and an avid contributor as well as proponent of others contributing to that project. He has schooled himself in Russian and German so that he can extract genealogical information from historical documents printed and handwritten in those two languages. He's been a force in ensuring that information pertinent to Mennonite family history is preserved through microfilming and through indexing and transcribing into the GRANDMA project, online (websites of the Mennonite Historical Societies of Manitoba and Alberta), and on the shelves of a large number of Mennonite historical societies.

Among the contributions to the Mennonite Historical Society have been his donation of microfilms for the Odessa State Archives collection of Board of Guardians records, Ulrich Dueck fonds, Herman Thiessen fonds, and others. His inventorying of files is evident in many locations on the MHSA website, and his indexes or transcriptions on the MHSA website include census, vital, health, voter, resident, and landowner records.

Custodial History
The maps were purchased in 2005 in Moscow, Russia, by Svetlanda Martins who sent scaps of the maps to Tim Janzen in June 2005. Tim sent the scans to the Mennonite Historical Society in September 2005.

Scope & Content
The fonds consist of electronic files for maps of Mennonite settlements in south Russia as well as Prussia and an index to the places found on the Crimean and Bereslav maps.

Source of Supplied Title
Title based on the contents of the fonds

Source of Acquisition
Gift by Timothy Paul Janzen 2005

Arrangement
According to Subject

Language
Russian and English

Originals

Originals held by Svetlana Martin

Other Formats
The index to the Crimean place names is available, on request, in Excel software format from the MHSA

Access Restrictions
None

Finding Aids
See Files Inventory

Notes
Accession 2005.045
Last updated 23 October 2005 - Judith Rempel

Files Inventory

Box 1

• Berislav Map - including background to map - 1919
• Crimea East Map - including background to map - 1920
• Crimea West Map - including background to map -1921
• Crimea Place Names indices A-F - 2005
• Crimea Place Names indices G-L - 2005
• Crimea Place Names indices M-S - 2005
• Crimea Place Names indices T-Z - 2005
• Danzig Map - including background to map - 1914
• Ekaterinoslav Map - including background to map - 1919
• Odessa Map - including background to map - 1921

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