American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

United States Nebraska  Lancaster  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:ahsgr@ahsgr.org ahsgr@ahsgr.org]

Address:


 * 631 D St Lincoln, NE 68502

Telephone: 402-474-3363

Hours and holidays: Monday-Friday 9am-4pm; Sunday 1pm-4pm

Map and public transportation:


 * Google map:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
 * Public transportation:  InterLinc Star Tran bus route 51/52 stops next to AHSGR. Route 47/48 stops four blocks east of AHSGR.

Internet sites and databases:


 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia about us, publications, research, library, and villages.
 * AHSGR Catalog online. Search by title, author, subject, call number, ISBN, or keyword. Also available in WorldCat.
 * AHSGR Village Files for villages and areas in which Germans settled.
 * AHSGR Surname Charts ancestral charts from researchers in Russia.

Collection Description
This is an international organization dedicated to the history, cultural heritage, and genealogy of Germanic settlers in the Russian Empire and their descendants. Their library collection holds AHSGR ancestor lists, cemetery lists, homestead papers, an AHSGR German hometowns list, passenger lists, obituaries, surname charts, Russian village files, and Karl Stumpp's Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763-1862.

Key Wiki Pages

 * Germans from Russia
 * Germans from Russia Societies
 * Germans from Russia Genealogy
 * Germans from Russia History
 * Germans from Russia Maps

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, bounty land, homesteads, ethnic sources, prisons, fed employees.
 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; fed court records of NE 1855-1960, military service/pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, vital and land records.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence MO, one of America's best genealogical centers: censuses and indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers. Surrounding states are well represented.
 * Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.

Similar Collections


 * Germans from Russia Heritage Society, Bismarck ND, focus is on the Black Sea and Bessarabian Germans with assistance for the Caucasus, Crimea and other regions close to the Black Sea, with some help for other areas as well.
 * Homestead National Monument Museum, Beatrice, 43,000 archival documents (27 linear feet).

Neighboring Collections


 * Lancaster County Clerk, Lincoln, marriages from 1866, military discharges, voter registration, estray notices, marks/brands, physician’s registers, farm/ranch names, and school registers.
 * Lancaster County Assessor / Register of Deeds, Lincoln, land records since 1858.
 * Lancaster County District Court Clerk, Lincoln, court records since 1863, probate since 1866.
 * U.S. District Court District of Nebraska, Lincoln, recent civil, criminal, and bankruptcy cases.
 * Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society, Lincoln, meetings, databases, and local resources. The LLCGS library is part of the Union College Library.
 * Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Lincoln, births/deaths since 1904, marriages/divorces since 1909. Some counties have earlier records. Genealogy requests must be more than 50 years old.
 * Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, best genealogy collection in Nebraska: biographies, histories, cemeteries, federal and state censuses, periodicals, church records, directories, federal land tract books, railroads, military, maps, gazetteers, naturalizations before 1906, and newspapers.
 * University of Nebraska Love Memorial Library, Lincoln, manuscripts/histories not at Historical Society. Special Collections has Czech, Latvian, Germans from Russia, military, and Great Plains history.
 * United Methodist Archives, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, history of Methodism and its predecessors in Nebraska. Appointments encouraged.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Butler, Cass, Gage, Johnson, Otoe, Saline, Saunders, and Seward.
 * Adams County Historical Society Archives, Hastings, newspapers, church records, oral histories, Oregon-California-Mormon trail, and dust bowl years material.
 * Omaha Public Library good genealogy collection with books, periodicals, and name indexes.
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
 * Bancroft Library, Berkeley CA, premier Western Americana collection, including exploration, early trails, early Nebraska, stagecoaches, Native Americans, maps, westward migration, the Gold Rush, mining, land surveys, religious and Utopian communities, and ethnic communities.
 * Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College, Newton KS, Mennonite-related books, periodicals, and genealogical materials.