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New Publication goes on sale:

Settlers of the East Reserve, edited by Adolf Ens, Ernest Braun and Henry Fast as Volume Four in the East Reserve Historical Series, published by Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society. (328 pp, softcover). Expected price $30 (optional full-text searchable CD, additional $10) plus s/h.

It is about the original Mennonite Settlement of the ER (East Reserve (Hanover Municipality), and features:

• complete ER homestead application data
• the earliest list of Bergthal villagers (1876)
• a complete assessment record for 1885
• the 1891 census
• a detailed map of the ER
• three new village histories and
• autobiographical material by pioneers

The final section also addresses significant departures of Mennonites from the East Reserve.

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Archival source:
Finding Aid for records in Odessa State Archives - Fürsorgekomitee für ausländische Ansiedler In Südrussland (Committee for Welfare of Foreign Settlers in Southern Russia), 1840-1841
This complements our file inventory for a great many other files held in the OSA and for which we have copies on microfilm.

Archival Collection:
Frieda Peters (1918- ) collection. -- 1890-1943. -- 5.5 cm of textual records

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Library Book:
Stoesz, Donald. (2006). Mapping the Diverging Trajectories of the Manitoba Bergthaler-Commerfelder Split of 1892. Self-published monograph.

Genealogy Data Source:
Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records