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Russian Germans -- North Dakota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Autobiography of William G. Starck

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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

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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

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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

Flegel Family Historical Sketch

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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

Gayla L. Lang Papers

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Identifier: SC 649
Abstract Typed manuscript of Lang's German Russian family lines, all of whom emigrated from Russia between 1899 and 1909, eventually settling in the Streeter, Gackle, and Fredonia, N.D. areas. Family names include Lang, Kalmbach, Krieger, Kleinknecht and Dorr. Paper was written for the Germans from Russia symposium held at NDSU in July 1990.
Dates: 1990

George Gackle Biography

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Identifier: SC 1736
Overview This collection contains a typed biography about George Gackle, sr. written by Gerald J. Waldera for History 499 class at North Dakota State University during the summer session of 1960.
Dates: 1960.

Giving Students a Feel for the Prairie, Rocks, and Wind: German-Russian Ethnic Studies at Emmons Central High School, Strasburg, North Dakota, by Timothy J. Kloberdanz

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Identifier: SC 537
Abstract Photocopy of typed final report prepared for the Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools Project, American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Coverage includes German Russia history, school environment, community, ethnic studies class and instructor Les Kramer, parents and grandparents of students, and summary analyzing one of the few German Russian ethnic high schools in the United States. Emmons Central High School (Strasburg, N.D.) was formed by consolidating Saint Anthony High School...
Dates: 1982.

Huber Family History Records

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Identifier: SC 557
Abstract Typed copy of the history of his biological parents and his adoptive parents. Parents were Philip J. Huber and Rose Engel. His father emigrated from Odessa, Russia in 1907, worked on various farms in Wells County, N.D., and began farming on his own 1921. First wife died in 1929, Harold's mother was from Nebraska, she had moved to N.D. in 1931. Her maiden name was Engel. John "Jack" Miller, born in Cornwall, Ontario, immigrated to Buffalo, N.D. 1910. Owned a drugstore in Balfour, N.D.; married...
Dates: 1890-1953