The GRHC is currently temporarily closed for renovation (learn more here).
Staff are available and happy to assist researchers via email or by appointment.
Michael M. Miller, director and bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at the NDSU Libraries, is set to retire on Dec. 1 after over 55 years at NDSU. Michael joins Henry L. Bolley and C.B. Waldron as the longest serving employees in NDSU history.
In Touch with Prairie Living, July 2022
By Michael M. Miller
I look forward to visiting the Eureka Pioneer Museum on July 13 with a bus tour traveling from Aberdeen, SD, during the 51st Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention, July 13-16. I will also attend the 53rd American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Convention, July 27-30, in Lincoln, NE.
In Touch with Prairie Living, June 2022
By Michael M. Miller
The mission of the Tri-County Tourism Alliance is to organize people to preserve and promote Germans from Russia heritage and culture to enhance tourism in Emmons, Logan, and McIntosh counties. These counties in south central North Dakota are the center of German-Russian country. The Tri-County Tourism Alliance is the embodiment of the names of these three counties.
In Touch with Prairie Living, May 2022
By Michael M. Miller
On November 8, 1993, I interviewed Eva (Gross) Schatz at the Marillac Manor Retirement Center in Bismarck, ND. Eva was 89 at the time of the interview. She died on April 2, 2002. I have fond memories interviewing Eva. Her heartwarming complete oral history audio and transcription are at http://hdl.handle.net/10365/14243.
By Michael M. Miller
By Michael M. Miller
Father Thomas Welk, Wichita, KS, grew up on a farm 11 miles directly east of Strasburg, ND. He translated an important work by Johannes Brendel, “Aus Deutschen Kolonien im Kutschurganer Gebiet,” or “The German Colonies in the Kutschurgan Region.” The original translations were published in a series in “Heritage Review” from April 1979 to December 1981.
By Michael M. Miller
With the Holiday Season approaching, I extend Yuletide Best Wishes to you and your family. I would like to share Christmas memories from our Germans from Russia community.
By Michael M. Miller
Thanksgiving best regards to you and your family. Let us be grateful that our ancestors immigrated to the USA, Dakota prairies, Canada, and South America, from the former German villages in South Russia. Having visited these former Bessarabian and German villages near Odessa, Ukraine, I have seen what difficult lives the people experience today.
By Michael M. Miller
Debra Marquart, a native of Napoleon, ND, has authored a delightful new book, “The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging”, recently published by the NDSU Press.
By Michael M. Miller
