Herbert Herman Sr. gets a first look at the Nestor River in Moldova. It looks a lot like the North Dakota prairie where his parents settled near Gackle, ND. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Herb Herman Jr. studying the tombstone in the old German cemetary of Bergdorf. His great, great, great, great grandfather Jakob Herman (1778 to 1856) immigrated from Bieselberg Calw-Wuerttemberg, Germany, to become a ...

Americans looking at the collective barn in Neudorf. It was built by people living in the village when Stalin's policies were enacted. Photograph by Charles and Melinda Herman Snell.

Anton and Rosina Wart were hosts to the Herman for overnight stay in Glueckstal. (l-r): Herb Herman Jr. San Jose, CA, Anton and Rosina Wart, Glueckstal, and Herbert Herman Sr, Gackle, ND. Photograph by Charles and Melinda ...

Lutheran Evangelical Church in Bergdorf; founding plaque reads 1851 with Gerda Fadden in front. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Ron with headstone and children in the village. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Ron Vossler with the Wort family in Glueckstal. Photograph by Arnold and Gerda Ordel Fadden.

Tour members traveling from Odessa to the Glueckstal villages in Moldova: sitting (l-r): Violet Miller Ehlers, Lodi, CA, Anna Marie Gulke Hajek, Everett, WA, and Herbert Herman, Jr, San Jose, CA; standing (l-r): Dennis ...