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Adam Haman Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 716
Overview
Biographical and genealogical files of Adam and Johanne (Wolfe) Haman and their family, who emigrated from Strasburg, Russia in 1898 and settled near Berwick in Pierce County, N.D.
Dates:
1970s-1980.
Andrew Johs Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC 009
Summary
A collection of German folk song texts, words to an Easter cantata, and four
books.
Dates:
1913 - 2005
Autobiography of William G. Starck
Item
Identifier: SC 592
Abstract
Photocopy of typescript autobiography that documents the lives of his German immigrant parents, Theodore and Wilhelmina Starck, who lived and farmed in Missouri and Nebraska and Starck's homesteading in Oliver County, N.D. in 1902. Includes mention of his parents trying to farm in Nebraska, their return to Missouri and coming back to Nebraska, his own experiences handling horses, the hospitality of German Russians in N.D., threshing, and a rooster used as an alarm clock.
Dates:
1949.
Biography of Theophil and Frieda Ricker
Collection
Identifier: SC 689
Abstract
A brief biography of Theophil and Frieda Ricker. Includes information on living in Russia, Theophil’s immigration to the United States, and the couple’s life after meeting and marrying. Written by the couple’s grandchildren Clyde and Sheryl Eisenbeis.
Dates:
1982, 1979
Bitz Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 596
Abstract
Photocopy of Father Bitz's genealogy, a computer printout. It contains the descendants of Balthaser Bitz, a German-Russian, whose children immigrated to Napoleon and Strasburg, N.D., Aberdeen, S.D., and Canada.
Dates:
1987
Carmen Rath-Wald Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC 063
Summary
Memoranda, 1945-1946; two photographs, circa 1924 and 2000; eight ornamental certificates, 1901-1932; one shawl; and three books, 1906-1923; relating to the
Rath family of McIntosh County, North Dakota.
Dates:
1900 - 2000
Emilia (Kusler) Miller Collection
Collection
Identifier: GRHC 008
Summary
This collection contains a wedding photograph and funeral service programs for Edna (Kusler) Kemnitz and two books relating to Kulm, North Dakota.
Dates:
1921-1999.
Emmaus Congregational Church Records, Carson, North Dakota
Collection
Identifier: SC 38
Abstract
Church record book listing the ministerial acts of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths. All the original entries are in German with English translations in the back of the book. There is a listing by date of new members and a cemetery plot listing. Records include: Baptisms, 1904-1974; Marriages, 1907-1967; Confirmands, 1919-1975; Deaths, 1907-1979; and History and membership, 1904-1965.
Dates:
1904-1970
Flegel Family Historical Sketch
Item
Identifier: SC 425
Overview
Historical sketch on the Flegel family, German Russians from Kulm, Russia, and the establishment of Kulm, N.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1920s
Fred Fiechtner Autobiography
Collection
Identifier: SC 875
Abstract
Photocopy of handwritten autobiographical sketch of his life which includes genealogical information on his German ancestors, the Fiechtners and the Gebhardts, from Odessa, Russia and Backnang, Württemburg, Germany. Also included are some photocopies of his father's writings in English and German.
Dates:
1974