Genealogy
Meetings
There is a local opportunity for meeting with fellow genealogists in
Calgary. Originally formed as a SIG (Special Interest Group) of the
Alberta Family Histories Society
in September 1997, the group has amassed a number of Ahnentafeln (pedigree
charts) from its members. Newcomers are welcome. We meet monthly. See
full details on our genealogy
meetings page.
To be reminded of meetings and participate in online discussions of
Mennonite genealogy, join our electronic
mailing list.
Library & Archives Resources
At the MHSA, we have some substantial resources for the family historian:
Mennonite Encyclopaedia; microfilmed Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization
records; Church Registers (published account of Bergthal Church plus
original records for Gem and Taber); Family, Congregational, Conference,
and Local Histories; plus a periodical collection that includes most
major Mennonite papers. See the listing of our
library holdings, and a brief finding
aid for the kinds of records particularly suitable to Mennonite
researchers and available at the MHSA..
Archival collections are being processed and description of those will
be online by fall 2003.
Online Resources
See also our Genealogy Links,
Mennonite Genealogy Links,
the comprehensively designed Mennonite
Genealogy Data Index & Tim
Janzen's Guide to Russian Mennonite Genealogy Resources, as well
as our Data Projects
Some of the latter are highlighted here:
- Mennonite
Villages in Russia - Volunteer, Tim Janzen, has prepared a number
of important tables of geographic data pertaining to the Mennonite
stay in Russia. They can be accessed from our Mennonite Villages homepage.
The tables are compilations of:
- Mennonite Villages in Russia
- Compilation of Mennonite Villages in Russia Sorted Alphabetically
by (German) Village Names
- Compilation of Mennonite Villages in Russia Sorted Alphabetically
by (Russified) Village Names in Russian
- Compilation of Crimean Mennonite Villages
- Original List of Mennonite Villages in Russia from the DAI Documents
- Modified List of Mennonite Villages in Russia from the DAI Documents
- 1923-30
Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Settlement Records -
Participate in our Project to extract the genealogical contents of
the 5,700 CMBOC records. Volunteers needed to photocopy, enter data,
proofread, and fund the project. As data is clean, it is being put
online - so please visit the CMBOC pages. When complete, it will provide
information about 20,000 Mennnonites who arrived at that time. It
will also be published in an upcoming GRANDMA CD.
- 1847 Voters'
List, Molotschna Settlement, South Russia - This list has been
located in the Odessa State Archives, Ukraine, Fund 6, Inventory
2, File #10510 - part of a large collection of five microfilms
covering 1847-1851. The Voters' List is the most important material
for Mennonite genealogists and has been extracted by Tim Janzen. Read
a complete introduction to the materials and find both village-based
and surname-based indexes to the material.
- 1858
& 1873 Yazykovo Settlement Censuses - More from our very busy
volunteer, Tim Janzen. Now online for the first time, a census of
the Yazykovo settlement compiled in 1873 and the 1858 Chortitza settlement
census data for those people who lived in the Yazykovo settlement.
For one village (Nikolaifeld) in the Yazykovo settlement, a census
compiled in 1869 is also available.
- Mennonite Records
from the Odessa Archives - Newly available from eight microfilms
of materials housed at the Odessa Archives in Russia. These films
contain selected files from records originally held by the Board
of Guardians Committee, from Fund (Collection) 6, Inventory 1
in the Odessa Archives and cover the years 1799-1820.
One of the most valuable items found in these microfilms is a complete
1801
census of the Chortitza Colony listing 1,665 Mennonites from nine
villages. It is in German and is highly readable. It is similar to
the 1795 Chortitza Colony census previously published by B. H. Unruh
in format.
Also of great interest are vital
records of all births, marriages, and deaths in the Chortitza
Colony for much of 1801 and 1802 and for the periods from January
to May, 1803, from January to May, 1806, from May to October, 1807,
and from October to December, 1813 as well as vital records for the
Molotschna Colony for May to August, 1811, from January to April and
from September to December, 1813, and from May to July, 1814.
The microfilms also include an 1802
Neuenburg village census, 1801, 1803,
and 1806 Hutterite Colony censuses, an 1801
Kronsgarten census
It also lists of all children vaccinated against smallpox in the Chortitza
Colony in 1809
and 1814.
There are various voters lists for the Chortitza settlement and for
the Molotschna settlement during the period 1801 to 1814 among other
items.
- Busau
Mennonite Church (Crimea) Records - These records have been transcribed
by Tim Janzen. He has generously made available the gedcom files of
both the original and a merged version of the files to the MHSA for
download from this site. See our Busau pages, to read about the records,
review an index of the names in the records and download the gedcom
files.
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