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Northern Illinois ChapterTom Rohr, Chapter President 1718 E. Lilac Terr. Arlington Hts., IL 60004-3527 (847) 253-4198 tomrohr@hotmail.com Purpose Officers Membership Calendar Library Newsletter Genealogy Publications Our Chapter's purpose is to bring together people interested in the history of Germans from Russia. Through a better understanding and appreciation of our heritage, we will promote the preservation of our history for generations to come. Our Chapter was formed in 1978 to reach out to those Germans from Russia who live in Northern Illinois. Chapter members today represent ancestral connections to the major German-Russian settlement areas in metropolitan Chicago and the Midwest. The Chapter encourages historical interest and genealogical research as well as to come together in good fellowship at our meetings throughout the year.
Committee Chairs
Chapter membership is $7 per individual and $14 per family and includes our quarterly NIC Newsletter. Please print out the MEMBERSHIP FORM and mail your remittance to the address below or bring it to a chapter meeting! Mail To:
Please note
meeting date change!
JOHN BIEL FILM
October
14, 2012 - Sunday
- 2:00 p.m.
Saturday,
December 1, 2012,
10:00AM
MEETING LOCATION
We
have
a
large
collection
of
German-Russian
books,
maps,
AHSGR
Journals
and
Clues,
and
other
resource
materials available
to our membership.
The Library is open
one half hour prior
to the start of the
meeting.
Members may check
out and return books
at this time.
Our "NIC NEWS" is
published quarterly
for chapter members.
The newsletter
provides articles
about AHSGR
International, local
Chapter news,
library additions,
and other items of
interest to our
members.
The Chapter has members who are active in personal research and can provide expertise and support to those who wish to explore German-Russian Research. For anyone wishing information regarding former German-Russian settlements please contact the chapter.
UNSER
LEUTE: SETTLERS IN
NORTHERN ILLINOIS -
now in its 3rd
printing has
eighty-nine pages of
Surnames of Germans
from Russia.
Extracted from the
churches in the
Volga German
communities in the
Townships of
Jefferson, Proviso
and Thorton in Cook
County, Illinois.
The amount of
information that was
available from
church records many
entries include
birth and death
dates, names of
children, other
relatives, birth
place, emigration
date and burial
location.
Churches researched include:
Germans
From
Russia
Death
Extractions,
Years
1914-1995,
from
the
John
V.
May
Funeral
Home,
Chicago,
IL.
Award recognition for this publication has been given by the Illinois Association of Museums, Springfield, Illinois. This publication contains an alphabetical listing of 1125 Germans from Russia, extracted from ledgers of the John V. May Funeral Home. Included are surname, first name, birthplace, birth and death dates, spouse information, last known address, relatives (if known), church attended, and place of final internment. Also given is a listing of major area cemetery locations, and the names and addresses of churches attended by Germans from Russia in the Jefferson Park area of Chicago. Both books are available for purchase and are prices
at
$15 each.
The
price
includes
postage/handling.
Chapter members have also extracted names of German-Russians from the 1920 US Federal Census of the GR communities in the Chicago area. The extractions from Film #338 which includes the Jefferson Park neighborhood, Cook County Ward 27, are complete. The extractions from microfilms #360, 362 & 363 of Calumet, Proviso, Thornton townships, which includes the villages of Bellwood, Broadview, Forest Park, Maywood, Melrose Park, Dolton, River Forest, Lansing and Riverdale, IL is complete. The 1910 US Federal Census for Proviso Township, Cook County extractions are complete as well. Copies of these extractions have been sent to AHSGR Headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska and reference copies are available in our Chapter Library.
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