Zeiszler Family Genealogy Collection

Collection

Identifier: GRHC 216

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection is arranged in several series and sub-series. Zeiszler had his own numbering system for the collection. This was denoted by a green sticker with the number on it and original order was retained. Materials in Finsihed Family Genealogy Series consist of Zeiszler’s finished family genealogies. The Family History Series has two sub -series. At the time of updating the collection Vol. 19, 20, 31, and 37 are missing. Materials in the Completed Sub-Series include completed family history research. The Unifinished Sub-Series contains incomplete family history research. Both of these series include family histories; family group sheets; pedigree charts; birth, death, marriage, confirmation, census information; a few maps, ships’ passenger lists and citizenship/naturalization certificates. At the time of updating the collection Vol. 62, and 79 – 82 are missing. Materials in the Correspondence Series are letters between Zeiszler and family members that he is researching. The American Historical Society of Germans form Russia Series contains materials from three international conferences. The Publications Series contains four sub-series. The Brochures and Pampletts Sub-Series contains materials related to research at North Dakota organizations. The Newspaper Clippings Sub-Series includes obituaries, newspaper clippings, and special editions of newspapers. The Journal Sub-Series contains three different Journals with two of the Journals are bound together. The Books Sub-Series covers town histories, county histories, and other family genealogy publications.

Dates

1973 - 2010

Conditions Governing Access

The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection owns the property rights to this collection. Access to the physical collection is available upon request. Request must be made at least three (3) business days prior to ndsu.grhc@ndsu.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyrights to items in this collection remain with original copyright holders or are in the public domain.

Biographical / Historical

Documenting ethnic German extended families of southern Crimea with Wuerttemberg, Germany origins: Swabian heritage. Friederich Zeiszler/Zeissler (born 1776) and his wife Maria (born 1787), with two sons, Georg (born 1806) and Frederich (born 1080), [hired hand, Franz Kettinger] emigrated from province of Wuerttemberg in year 1809, with the destinaton of Kronental [Kronenthal], Crimea, South Russia, [Cousin Katherina Zeissler was of thirty-seven colonists to Rosenthal, Crimea.] The difficult ninety-day trek in 1809 was hazardous for approximately eleven hundred trekkers (while Napolean had military conflict against Austria on the upper Danube region). The overland route of 1809 through Saxony, Silesia, Polish Galicia, and Bessarabia caused only healthy travelers to reach their destination of Kronenthal [Kronental], Crimea.

The Zeiszler family lived in Kronenthal [Kronental] from 1809 to 1886 as farmers and the Kaiser family as blacksmiths (wrought iron). Son Heindrich Zeiszler (born 1823) married Maria Kaiser. Grandson Christian Zeiszler (born 1853) married Rosina Guenther from Friedental. Great grandson Michael Zeiszler (born 1880 in Neu Borlak), immigrating in 1886 to Freeman, Hutchinson County, Dakota Territory.

In 1887, Christian Zeiszler and family with a caravan of thirty wagons (with future grand step-father John Suess, Sr.) trekked from Scotland, Dakota Territory, via Mandan and Hebron to north of Stanton in Mercer County, northwestern North Dakota. Michael Zeiszler homesteaded near Mannhaven and later established a mercantile business in 1899 at Expansion, North Dakota, supported by forty eight families with origins in Kronenthal [Kronental], Kasmer, and Neusatz, southern Crimea region.

Michael Zeiszler married Helena Bohrer, in 1898. Later as a widower, he married Helena Sailer.

Extent

16 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

German

Additional Description

Overview

The collection is arranged in several series and sub-series. Zeiszler had his own numbering system for the collection. This was denoted by a green sticker with the number on it and original order was retained. Materials in Finsihed Family Genealogy Series consist of Zeiszler’s finished family genealogies. The Family History Series has two sub -series. At the time of updateing the collection Vol. 19, 20, 31, and 37 are missing. Materials in the Completed Sub-Series include completed family history research. The Unifinished Sub-Series contains incomplete family history research. Both of these series include family histories; family group sheets; pedigree charts; birth, death, marriage, confirmation, census information; a few maps, ships’ passenger lists and citizenship/naturalization certificates. At the time of updating the collection Vol. 62, and 79 – 82 are missing. Materials in the Correspondence Series are letters between Zeiszler and family members that he is researching. The American Historical Society of Germans form Russia Series contains materials from three international conferences. The Publications Series contains four sub-series. The Brochures and Pampletts Sub-Series contains materials related to research at North Dakota organizations. The Newspaper Clippings Sub-Series includes obituaries, newspaper clippings, and special editions of newspapers. The Journal Sub-Series contains three different Journals with two of the Journals are bound together. The Books Sub-Series covers town histories, county histories, and other family genealogy publications.