Germans from Russia Church Records

The article "Evangelisch-Lutherische Trauungen in Smolensk 1834-1870" appeared in Archiv für Sippenforschung, Jahrgang 19, Heft 5 (1942), starting with page 97. The periodical can be retrieved through FamilySearch, FamilySearch Catalog, call number 943 B2as.

Mennonites

Three important repositories are:


 * Mennonite Heritage Centre


 * 600 Shaflesburg Rd
 * Winnipeg, Manitoba R3P 0M4
 * Canada


 * In 1966 they filmed all the Mennonite records in Odessa for the southern Russian Empire, including revision lists.


 * Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Canada


 * 169 Riverton Ave
 * Winnipeg, Manitoba R2L 2E5
 * Canada


 * Mennonite Library and Archives


 * Information and Research Center
 * Box 366
 * North Newton, KS 67117
 * USA

The following book provides background information:


 * Benjamin Heinrich Unruh, Die niederlandisch-niederdeutschen Hintergrunde der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 17., und 19. Jahrhundert (The Netherlands-Low German Background of the Mennonite Migration to the East in the 16th, 18th and 19th Centuries) (Karlsruhe: Unruh, 1955). Text in German. A history on the Mennonite movement into Russia; provides lists of families according to the town in Russia where they settled and time period, including in many cases birthplaces in Germany or Poland.