American Historical Society of Germans from Russia

United States Nebraska  Lancaster  Archives and Libraries  

{| width="108%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="5" style="border-bottom: rgb(147,139,119) 1px solid; border-left: rgb(147,139,119) 1px solid; background: rgb(245,241,240) 0% 50%; border-top: rgb(147,139,119) 1px solid; border-right: rgb(147,139,119) 1px solid; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-size: auto auto" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"



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.

Tips
{Optional}

Guides
{''Optional: Internet or guide books describing this collection for genealogists. ''}

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 at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, adoptions, vital records, land, and Indian records. Nebraska federal court records of civil, criminal and bankruptcy cases 1855-1960
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, a great American genealogy collection: censuses, MO federal land sales, penitentiary, St. Louis fur trade, Civil War, passenger lists, plantations, American Indians, city directories, newspapers, Draper Manuscripts, and KY taxes.
 * 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.

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * 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.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Butler, Cass, Gage, Johnson, Otoe, Saline, Saunders, and Seward.
 * State Vital Records Office
 * State Genealogical Society
 * Church archives
 * 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.