Are you interested in visiting the villages of your ancestors near Odessa, Ukraine, including the former Black Sea, Bessarabian and Crimean German villages?

The Germans from Russia electronic discussion group or listserves have been established by the NDSU Libraries and the NDSU Information Technologies Center. These include the following discussion groups:

1. BESS-GR: Bessarabian Germans from Russia Electronic Discussion Group
   
2. GCRA: Glückstal Colonies Research Association Electronic Discussion Group
   
3. GR-GENEALOGY: Germans from Russia Genealogy Electronic Discussion Group
   
4. GR-HERITAGE: Germans from Russia Heritage Electronic Discussion Group
   
5. KRIM-GR: Crimean Germans from Russia Electronic Discussion Group

For further information to subscribe and a description of each of the electronic discussion groups, consult the GRHC website Table of Contents at "Electronic Discussion Lists."

http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/aboutus/introduction/lists.html

To document the history of the Germans from Russia for future generations, the NDSU Libraries is continually enlarging its compendium of oral history interviews. Help us identify older persons in your family.

We need to find persons in your family to join us as interviewers. Do you know senior citizens in your family who should be interviewed? Is there anyone in your family who would like to join us as a volunteer interviewer? We have developed questions for the interview to guide you. Review the GRHC website at “Oral History” for further information.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/oral/index.htm

The NDSU Libraries exhibit titled The Kempf Family: Germans from Russia Weavers on the Dakota Prairies offers a compelling introduction to the German-Russian heritage.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/exhibit/buffalo2.html

The Family Reunions: In Touch with Prairie Living traveling exhibit is designed for use at German-Russian family reunions in the Dakotas. This exhibit is available on loan from the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. Pick-up and return of the exhibit needs to be done in Fargo.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/reunion/index.htm

GRHC has also designed the exhibit, Traditions of German-Russian Weddings: From the Steppes of South Russia to the Prairies of the Dakotas.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/exhibit/grweddings.html

This table-top exhibit to the right, "Family Reunions: In Touch With Prairie Living," is available on loan from the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU Libraries, Fargo. The exhibit cannot be shipped for family reunions. Pick-up and return of the exhibit needs to be done in Fargo. For further information, contact Michael M. Miller at the address below.

We would like to borrow photos to prepare negatives and color copies. Help us build our photo archives of historic German-Russian photographs including weddings, homemaking, farms, military, and family photos. We appreciate your cooperation in borrowing photographs and other historical documents for archival preservation, publications, and exhibits.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/photo
/index.htm

What you can do to help

Do you have old family or wedding photos for the GRHC Photography Archives? Review the GRHC website at “Outreach Programs” for additional information.
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/index.html

Books, Maps and Tapes

German-Russian food recipes, ethnic customs, folkways, and traditions such as weddings, Christmas and New Year can be located at “History/Culture.”
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/history_culture/

For German-Russian cookbooks, see the GRHC website at - “Order” - “Cookbooks.”
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/order/cookbooks/cookbooklist.html

Since its founding in 1950, the Institute has been actively developing an extensive repository of resources on North Dakota and the surrounding region - a region with a rich historical heritage.
Archives: (701) 231-8914http://library.ndsu.edu/ndirs.