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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Migrations and Mobilities in Post-Soviet Eurasia\n\n\n\n\nThe collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new political and economic map of Eurasia also brought new migration dynamics to the entire region\, even allowing the conceptualization of a new global model – the Eurasian Migration System. In this presentation\, we will talk about the flows and destinations that have characterized these last three decades in the post-Soviet space and also beyond it\, from the return to their origins of several ethnic minorities (Germans\, Greeks\, Koreans\,…) to the labor migrations that are today the daily routine of countries such as Moldova or Tajikistan – not forgetting the refugee flows that have unfortunately characterized the recent history of the region… \nAbout the Speaker \nAntónio Eduardo Mendonça is a Portuguese senior anthropologist\, researcher in the area of Post-Soviet Migrations at the IGOT-UL (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon); he also taught at Universities in Portugal and in Turkiye. He was the coordinator of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference Geopolitics\, Migrations and Identities in Central Eurasia (Lisbon\, January 2025). His current research project deals with Central Asian migrants in Portugal and in Western European Countries. \n\nRegister Here \nAfter registering you should get a confirmation email from Zoom. Please contact us for assistance if you do not receive an email.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-12/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Note: Due to personal genealogical data being shared\, this presentation will not be recorded. \nA brief review of January DNA problem solving concepts will be followed by illustrations of the deep underlying connections between Volga German groups that are often hard to visualize. The value of incorporating Volga German migration patterns into DNA Match Analysis and research will be explored. \nA few case study examples incorporating German Origins matching and movements across multiple colonies and distant US connections will be reviewed. Discussion of matching opportunities resulting from the increasing number of connections that can be found with distant Volga Cousins returning from Russian Jurisdictions to Germany. And finally\, some Success Stories across multiple services. \nIf time permits\, a few examples that provide clues to the proverbial question that often comes up “How related are we?” \nAbout the Speaker \nHerb Femling has been doing family history research and German genealogy since the 1980s. As Volga German records started becoming more available in the 1990s he began extending his research into the German Villages of Origin. His German Parish Register research extends from the Northeastern to Central and Southern German Jurisdictions. \nHe has incorporated a strong interest in genetic genealogy over the last 10 years and has been actively utilizing advanced DNA analysis to break through brick walls where records are sparse. Recent presentations have been on DNA research incorporating database analysis. Presentations over the last 25 years to multiple organizations and groups in the Pacific Northwest have covered a variety of German research topics. He is a life member of AHSGR and other organizations. \nHerb grew up on a farm in Vancouver\, Washington which he still operates with his brother. The farm has been active in the family for over a century. His over thirty-year business career involved stints in several industries and spanned multiple functional areas across the entities. \nRegister here \nAfter registering you should get a confirmation email from Zoom. Please contact us for assistance if you do not receive an email.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-11/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250128T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:The January and February presentations will be a 2-part sequential exploration of DNA Match Analysis in combination with Volga German migration patterns.  The focus will be on Volga Colony DNA research\, but the concepts are transferrable to all other areas of German genetic genealogical research. \nThe January session will start with a brief overview of key analytical concepts\, beginning with understanding initial test results and then progressing to more intermediate and advanced DNA Match research skills.  A short summary of the characteristics of the four major testing companies will be discussed to assist in the understanding of the company or companies’ resources that may best fit the tester. \nResearch techniques that are important in understanding DNA Match Analysis and the importance of matching segment detail used in a Chromosome Browser will be explored in detail.  Examples of using Chromosome Mapping to help with match analysis back to distant great grandparents (3rd\, 4th\, 5th\, etc.) will be illustrated. \nThe session will conclude with Case Study examples for distant match analysis through the Volga Colony and back into German Villages of Origin. \nAbout the Speaker \nHerb Femling has been doing family history research and German genealogy since the 1980s. As Volga German records started becoming more available in the 1990s he began extending his research into the German Villages of Origin. His German Parish Register research extends from the Northeastern to Central and Southern German Jurisdictions. \nHe has incorporated a strong interest in genetic genealogy over the last 10 years and has been actively utilizing advanced DNA analysis to break through brick walls where records are sparse. Recent presentations have been on DNA research incorporating database analysis. Presentations over the last 25 years to multiple organizations and groups in the Pacific Northwest have covered a variety of German research topics. He is a life member of AHSGR and other organizations. \nHerb grew up on a farm in Vancouver\, Washington which he still operates with his brother. The farm has been active in the family for over a century. His over thirty-year business career involved stints in several industries and spanned multiple functional areas across the entities. \n  \nRegister Here!
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-10/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241029T173000
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:A Quest for Relatives in Kazakhstan\nSeveral years ago I discovered a village in northern Kazakhstan named Karamyshevka that was started in 1906 by Germans. Karamyshevka was also the Russian name of Bauer\, the village in the Volga region that was home to my German Russian relatives. I suspected residents of Karamyshevka in the Volga region started the village in Kazakhstan and wondered if my own relatives were involved.\n A few years later a paper was published in the AHSGR journal by Araylym Mussagalieva and Roza Mussabekova\, two scholars from the Eurasian National University who study German Russians in Kazakhstan. I contacted Araylym and suggested that if she ever went to Karamyshevka she might look for the name Bruch or Brug\, my relatives. She responded\, “I’m there now\,” and sent me the names of half-a-dozen Bruchs from a 1920 census.\nOn a visit to Kazakhstan this past September two Kazakh friends offered to take me to Karamyshevka\, Kazakhstan. I expected a simple visit. Then Araylym and Roza offered to come with us. Finally\, a news crew from Kabar.tv\, the national television network of Kazakhstan\, thought it would make a good story and offered to come as well. I set off for Karamyshevka in a news van with my friends\, two experts on German Russians in Kazakhstan\, and a news reporter and videographer. My Treffen Tuesday presentation recalls this adventure.\nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-9/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T200000
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Schön and Sheyn –The Beautiful Harmony Between German-Russian and Russian Jewish Homesteaders \nIn 1938\, the Andrews Sisters’ Bei mir bist du schön (To Me You’re Beautiful) was a big radio hit. Though many believed it was a German song\, it was a song written in Yiddish\, a language spoken by Eastern European Jews. The record company changed the spelling of the word “beautiful” from Yiddish (sheyn) to German (schön). This anecdote opens the door to examine the similarities\, beyond language\, which laid the foundation for the good relationships between the Germans and the Jews\, living near Odessa at the turn of the 20th Century. \nWith an ample sprinkling of heartwarming stories from within and outside of Still (NDSU Press 2019)\, the book I co-wrote with my dad Kenneth Bender\, we will explore the commonalities between these two immigrant groups.  As their lives intertwined again in America\, a beautiful harmony developed. Their intersecting history\, as well as their individual histories\, should be preserved. \nAbout the Speaker\nRebecca E. Bender and her father Kenneth M. Bender are coauthors of Still\, a biography/memoir of five generations of their Jewish family and their communities. Still is the 2019 Independent Press Award Winner (Judaism category) and the 2020 Midwest Book Award Gold Medal Winner (Religion/Philosophy category). Rebecca’s prose and poetry have appeared in The Journal of The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia\, North Dakota Quarterly\, The Jewish Veteran\, the Forward\, Australia’s Jewish Women of Words\, the Minneapolis Star Tribune\, The Northwest Blade\, and Paper Brigade Daily (Jewish Book Council). \nShe has spoken about her family of North Dakota Jewish homesteading farmers at events sponsored by The Minnesota Historical Society\, the North Dakota Historical Society\, the South Dakota Historical Society\, St. John’s University\, the Upper Midwest Jewish Historical Society\, the Homestead National Historical Park\, and the Germans from Russia Heritage Society\, among others. Copies of Still’s second printing (in paperback) are available through NDSUPress.org\, library.ndsu.edu/grhc\, Amazon.com\, or can be ordered through any bookstore. \nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-8/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240827T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240827T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Treasures from the AHSGR Archives\nAHSGR Archivist Karen Keehr shares some of the amazing\, unique German Russian treasures housed in the AHSGR Archives and Museum Collections. From heart wrenching letters from Russia to beautiful old maps\, enjoy a virtual tour behind the scenes at the AHSGR Heritage Center in Lincoln\, Nebraska. Karen will also talk about the efforts to digitize our Archival Collection and how you can access them online. She will also talk about the process of donating items to AHSGR and how you can help preserve German Russian heritage for generations. \nAbout the Speaker\nKaren Keehr joined the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia in June 2022 with over 22 years of experience in the Archives field. She has specialized training in digital imaging and photograph preservation. One of her goals at AHSGR is to increase access to our unique German Russian collections through digital access and improved archival processing. \nOriginally from Minnesota\, Karen has enjoyed studying and preserving Nebraska history for nearly 25 years. She did her undergraduate work at Winona State University in Winona\, Minnesota and received her master’s degree in public history from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces\, NM in 2009. Karen was the Curator of Research at Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island\, NE for nine years where she worked on two books of photographs\, Grand Island and Hall County and Grand Island: the Julius Leschinsky Photographs. In June 2009\, Karen became the Curator of Photographs and Head of Digital Imaging at the Nebraska State Historical Society (now known as History Nebraska). She has also proudly served on the Nebraska Museums Association board since 2000. \nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-7/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240730T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240730T103000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Register Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-18/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240625T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240625T103000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:For the June 2024 Tuesday Treffen meeting\, you will have a unique opportunity to meet\nAdam Schell\, a 96-year-old Volga German man born in the village of Seewald. His life\nexperience has been shaped by the history of all Germans from Russia in the Soviet\nUnion in the 20th century. Born as a fifth child of nine children to Pius and Anna Schell\,\nhe has lived through the famine of the 1930s\, the 1941 deportation of the Volga\nGermans\, and the consequent persecution and limitation of rights for all Soviet citizens\nof German descent. After twenty-five years in western Siberia\, he relocated his family to\nhis Volga German homeland in 1966 and lived in Frank\, Russia until his emigration to\nGermany at age 71 in the late 1990s. Despite the challenges\, he never lost his humor\nand positive attitude towards life. \nIn this presentation\, Adam will talk about various topics related to his family’s history –\nand their connection to America – and cultural aspects of German-Russian life\, such as\ntypical foods\, tradition of nicknames (Beinamen) given to families\, and more.\nDuring the meeting\, he will be supported by his granddaughter Tanja Schell\, who will\nassist with translation for Adam and his audience. Dr. Tatjana “Tanja” Schell is a Lifetime\nAHSGR member and has presented on various topics related to the history and culture\nof the Volga Germans in Russia on numerous occasions\, both at the AHSGR Annual\nConvention and also to different chapters. She has also contributed to sharing the\nhistory of her family in the following publications by the AHSGR Journal: \n“Maria’s Story.” Journal of the AHSGR. Volume 29.4 (2006): 21-25.\n“Celebrating Christmas 2006 in Frank\, Russia.” Journal of the AHSGR. Volume 30.4\n(2007): 16-18.\n“Easter in Siberia.” By Katrin Schell\, Journal of the AHSGR. Volume 36.4. (2013) \nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-6/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240528T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240528T183000
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Ron Baesler \nStruck Down but not Destroyed: The Story of Rudolf Heupel\, a German-Russian Immigrant \nRon Baesler is a farm boy\, physicist\, pastor\, missionary\, seminary professor\, gardener\, grandfather\, father and husband. He was born and raised on a farm in New Leipzig\, North Dakota. He graduated from UND and his first call was as pastor at Peace Lutheran Church in Fargo.  \nHis work has taken him from the high plains of the upper Midwest to the mountain villages of Madagascar\, from the verdant lands of southern Brazil to the exquisite beaches of Puerto Rico\, from the chilly climes of North Dakota to the Mediterranean climate of Southern California. Wherever he has gone\, he has listened to stories\, told stories\, and written stories. \nAbout the presentation: \nHis presentation is based on his book Struck Down but not Destroyed: The Story of Rudolf Heupel\, a German-Russian Immigrant.  It is the story of Ron’s maternal grandfather\, a man who not only survived but thrived amid difficult times. It is an imaginative reconstruction of Rudolph’s life\, based on historical research\, his written documents\, Ron’s encounters\, and family memories. It is a story of how one man struggled to live out his faith in his home\, community\, and congregation. \n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-4/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240430T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240430T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20240214T170926Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:A German from Russia Dreams of Karakul Sheep:  C. C. Young and His Return to Russia \nRichard Sallet\, in the foreword to his book\, Russian-German Settlements in the United States\, notes “two important advances which the American people owe to Russian-German initiative.” The first was Bernhard Warkentin’s introduction of Turkey [Red] wheat on his farm in Kansas. The second was Carl C. Young (Jung)’s\, travel “to Russian Turkestan to negotiate the first importation\, to his Texas ranch\, of Karakul sheep.” \nThis presentation will provide an overview of Carl Young’s amazing and unusual career. Dr. Charles Christian Young\, a Bessarabian German from Neu-Elft imported the first Karakul sheep into the United States and established the breed in North America. His remarkable life story starts with his birth as Karl Jung in Bessarabia\, his immigration to the U.S.\, his training as a medical doctor\, his personal friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt\, and his return to Russia\, where the Tsar’s government assisted his procurement of Karakul sheep from local tribesmen in Central Asia. As a naturalized American citizen\, Young traveled widely in Russia\, wrote a book describing his travels\, and lectured on the Chautauqua Circuit\, including a lecture at Carnegie Hall in New York. Selections from his passport application files\, articles written by Young in historic newspapers\, and documents provided by the Young family will be used to illustrate this story of accomplishment and adventure\, which is still largely unknown to the Germans from Russia community. \nAllyn Brosz –Bio \nAllyn Brosz is a South Dakota native with German-Russian ancestry in Bessarabia and the Glückstal colonies of the Tsarist Empire. He grew up on the farm homesteaded by his great grandfather\, Adam Brosz. Allyn holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science\, public administration\, and public policy\, and studied in Germany on a Fulbright grant. He retired from a civilian position at the U.S. Department of Defense in 2021. Allyn is a life member of AHSGR\, the Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS)\, and the Palatines to America Society\, and serves on the steering committee of the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association and the GRHS editorial board. He has served on the AHSGR Board of Directors and has represented Germans from Russia societies on the U.S. National Archives committee for Russian American Genealogical Archival Research (RAGAS). He has published research articles and delivered presentations at GRHS and AHSGR conventions over the past 40 years. \n  \nRegister on Zoom Here!
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-5/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240326T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:The Murray Method \nTreffen Tuesday; March 26\, 2024 \nMarilyn (Reh) Murray \nMarilyn will share a background history and an audio-visual explanation of the Murray Method. \nThis method is described as an effective approach to becoming a Healthy Balanced Person – physically\, intellectually\, emotionally\, and spiritually. It is a guideline for living and provides a clear and concise explanation for the consequences of difficult and painful experiences.  The Murray Method enables wholeness beyond trauma\, abuse\, neglect\, and addiction. \nSince its inception in 1981\, the Murray Method has been widely taught and employed internationally\, especially in the former USSR.  During this time\, the main therapeutic emphasis dealt with moving beyond childhood trauma and also addressing present day issues such as relationship problems\, addictions\, financial difficulties and so forth. \nHowever\, with the arrival of the war in Ukraine\, the Murray Method now has been effectively utilized by psychologists\, therapists\, and clergy (who were previously trained in the method) who now are working with war trauma victims.  They are using the Murray Method in individual and group sessions held in person\, and in online sessions with refugees throughout Ukraine and Europe.  Murray Method videos in Ukrainian are also now available with a wide audience. \nIn response to the great need for more intensive therapy\, the Murray Method War Trauma Rehabilitation Center was established in early 2023 and is located in a large\, 4-story house on acreage in a suburb of Poltava\, Ukraine.   A two-week inpatient\, intensive therapy program is provided here twice monthly at no cost for 25 war survivors.  Approximately 700 women and men have received this special gift thus far. \nA high percentage of Ukrainians suffer from PTSD.  Almost everyone is grieving the loss of a family member and/or a close friend as a result of the war.  Many have lost their homes and their possessions.  It is a huge national tragedy\, and the results will remain for generations.  The Murray Method is helping reduce the long-term effects of this trauma. \nThe method also is being applied with survivors of the present war in Israel as well as persons impacted by recent school shootings in the States.  (More detailed information regarding the Murray Method is available on the website: www.murraymethod.com ) \nMARILYN (Reh) MURRAY \nRecognized internationally as an educator\, theorist\, author\, and psychotherapist\, Marilyn was a pioneer in the treatment of trauma\, abuse and deprivation\, and their correlation with addictions.  She began creating and teaching her Murray Method theory and treatment modalities starting in 1983 including the widely used Trauma Egg and Circles of Intimacy.   She has taught her method for universities in the US and internationally with students from 40 countries. \nFrom 2002 to 2018\, she lived and worked nearly half-time in Russia where she presented her method to over 4\,000 health professionals and clergy in the former USSR.  She also has been a guest professor at major Russian universities including Moscow State University.  There are Murray Method International Centers in Russia\, Ukraine\, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. \nHer paternal grandparents were born in small villages near Saratov and immigrated to America.  Unfortunately\, their families who remained in Russia suffered greatly under the Stalinist terror and repression.  Marilyn has visited her family villages numerous times and has a special love for this country.  She also has cousins in Siberia and other parts of Russia. \nShe has been a life member of AHSGR since 1998 and has shared her knowledge of Russia at several AHSGR conventions. \nRegister Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-13-3/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231024T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:October – Maggie Hein\, “Is This Really My Ancestor?” \nPresentation: \nAre you using genealogy web sites to research your Germans from Russia ancestors?  Is your family tree online?  The big genealogy web sites (Ancestry\, Family Search\, My Heritage) can be wonderful tools for locating records and making connections to your ancestors.  They can also offer you misleading\, unproven and false information.  How do you sort out the good information from the bad?  What is unique about Germans from Russia research that results in so little accurate data online? \nIn this presentation we will talk about how to assess the accuracy of the genealogy data you find online.  We will discuss what records the big web sites have and more importantly what records they don’t have.  We will talk about the reliability of different types of sources and how to steer clear of unproven data.  The goal of this presentation is to give you the information you need to confidently use these web sites and accurately document your family history. \nBiography: \nMaggie Hein is a volunteer AHSGR Village Coordinator for the Volga German village of Frank. She is one of the administrators of the Volga Germans web site (www.volgagermans.org). Maggie’s genealogy research focuses on Germans who migrated to Russia in 1766 to settle in the lower Volga River region. She has used German church records to document hundreds of the German families who settled in Volga German Villages between 1763 and 1773\, identifying previously unknown origin locations for many families. When she isn’t doing genealogy research\, she is a tax accountant and co-owner of a CPA firm in the Chicago suburbs.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-32/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:September – Dr. Hans-Christian Petersen\, “Dr. Karl Stumpp (1896-1962)” \nPresentation: \nDr. Hans-Christian Peterson presents a special presentation about Dr. Karl Stumpp (1896-1962). Remembered posthumously as the “patriarch of the Germans from Russia\,” Stumpp is perhaps the most influential person of transnational Russia German diaspora activism and belonged to the ‘grand old men’ of the German “Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland”. \nBiography: \nHans-Christian Petersen is a research associate at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe and a lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (Germany). Together with Victor Dönninghaus (Lüneburg) and Jannis Panagiotidis (Vienna)\, he edited the volume Jenseits der ‘Volksgruppe’. Neue Perspektiven auf die Russlanddeutschen zwischen Russland\, Deutschland und Amerika (De Gruyter\, 2018). He is working on a critical biography of Karl Stumpp\, the “patriarch” of the Russian Germans\, and his völkisch legacy. Together with Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET ViennaI he is currently writing a monograph on the history and present of racism against East Europeans which will be published in 2024. Together with Aleksandra Lewicki (University of Sussex) they are also running a project on the discrimination of East Europeans on the German labor market.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-33/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T200326Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:August – Marilyn Murray\, “Ukraine and Russia – a Family at War updates” \nPresentation: \nMarilyn (Reh) Murray will share updates regarding the Ukraine/Russian war.  She has a Murray Method International Center in Ukraine and also one in Russia so is in constant contact with her colleagues/friends in both countries.  She will share their personal responses regarding the current war crisis. \nPhotos and videos from her colleagues in Ukraine will be shown. \nShe also worked with a group of Ukrainian war refugees in Chicago recently and will share regarding that experience. \nBiography: \nRecognized internationally as an educator\, theorist\, author\, and psychotherapist\, Marilyn was a pioneer in the treatment of trauma\, abuse and deprivation\, and their correlation with addictions.  She began creating and teaching her Murray Method theory and treatment modalities starting in 1983.  She has taught her method for universities in the US and internationally with students from 40 countries. \nFrom 2002 to 2018\, she lived and worked nearly half-time in Russia where she presented her method to over 4\,000 health professionals and clergy in the former USSR.  She also has been a guest professor at major Russian universities including Moscow State University.  There are Murray Method International Centers in Russia\, Ukraine\, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. \nHer paternal grandparents were born in small villages near Saratov and immigrated to America.  Unfortunately\, their families who remained in Russia suffered greatly under the Stalinist terror and repression.  Marilyn has visited her family villages numerous times and has a special love for this country.  She also has cousins in Siberia and other parts of Russia. \nShe has been a life member of AHSGR since 1998 and has shared her knowledge of Russia at several AHSGR conventions. \nwww.murraymethod.com
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-34/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20240131T195726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T195726Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:June – Dr. Mila Koretnikov\, “Tracing Our Volga-German Heritage: A Comparative Look at Tours to Ancestral Village in Germany and Russia” \nPresentation: \nIn 2016-2019 the Volga German Tour group – Dr. Mila Koretnikov\, Sergey Koretnikov and Dr. Brent Mai\, took approximately 250 people from the USA\, Canada\, and Argentina on tours to the Volga German Colonies of their ancestors in Russia.  Although they planned to expand the tours to Siberia\, the current situation in Russia made it impossible to do so. \nPeople continued to ask about future travel and the Volga German Tour group decided to take interested people to their ancestral homes\, their German origin homes\, in Germany.  In 2022-2023 forty-four people visit their villages of origin in Germany. \nAlthough Mila and her group thought that the tours would be very different from the tours to Russia\, they were in for a surprise.  What they found was that the trips to villages in Russia and Germany were more similar than expected. \nJoin us on June 27\, at 2:30 pm as Dr. Mila Koretnikov shares the similarities and differences they found doing numerous tours to both Russia and Germany. \nBiography: \nDr. Mila Koretnikov is a lecturer and coordinator of the Technical English program at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe\, Germany\, and a lecturer in intercultural communication at the Cooperative University of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Karlsruhe\, Germany. \nDr. Koretnikov grew up in Saratov\, Russia in a Volga-German family and holds degrees from Saratov State University. She did her post-doc study at the University of Wyoming and taught summer courses for K-12 teachers at Otero Junior College\, La Junta\, Colorado. \nMila Koretnikov has been doing research in Russian archives for more than 20 years helping hundreds of individuals from the USA\, Germany\, Argentina\, Brazil\, and Canada find information on their ancestors. In 2016-2019 together with Dr. Brent Mai she led tours to Volga-German ancestral villages in Russia and starting with 2022 – to Volga-German ancestral villages in Germany. \nShe has lived in Germany since 2006.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-31/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20240131T195234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T195427Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:May – Dr. Eric J. Schmaltz\, “Our Memories Build Our Future: Germans from Russia Still on the Move in the 21st Century” \nPresentation: \nThis presentation is based on the banquet talk given at the 2022 AHSGR International Convention held in Lincoln\, Nebraska.   It reflects on the group’s history\, including “The Double Stigma” as Germans and Russians during the two world wars and Cold War period\, and its overcoming of occasional adversity in the new homelands.  It also considers the group’s global success story in many fields of endeavor.  It concludes about the ways in which the group has reached an inflection point\, “coming full circle” at this time in its development\, and reflects on where German from Russia descendants find themselves today. \nBiography: \nEric J. Schmaltz earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002.  Since 2005\, he has taught Mod­ern European\, American\, and World History at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva and in 2019 began serving as Departmental Chair of Social Sciences. In 2014\, he received the John Barton Distinguished Teaching and Service Award at his university and has been nominated for it on four other occasions.  His research concentrates on Modern Germany and Modern Russia with an emphasis on ethnic and nationality issues\, as well as German migration topics. \nOver the past three decades\, he has contributed a variety of articles and translations to AHSGR\, GRHS\, and the North Dakota State University Libraries in Fargo and has given frequent public talks both at home and abroad.  His other articles and reviews have appeared in local newspapers\, magazines\, interdisciplinary journals\, and major international edited volumes.  From 2010 to 2020\, he served as editor of the GRHS Heritage Review quarterly.  Since 2008\, he has served on the AHSGR Journal’s editorial board as well.  He is also co-founder and co-director of the endowed Northwestern Oklahoma State University Institute for Citizenship Studies and since 2021 is the Donovan L. Reichenberger Endowed Chair in History.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/35248/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:April – Lena Wolf\, “A graphic novel ‘May the Universe be Your Home!’ about the fate of German families in the Soviet Union” \nPresentation: \nIn her presentation Lena will show the coloured pages from her upcoming graphic novel\, which hopefully will be available by the end of 2023. Those of you fortunate to attend the 2022 Treffen Tuesday presentation will recall the story of the deportation and how Lena learned of her heritage. This is a continuation of that family history. \nAttached below is a page from her graphic novel which depicts German speaking people leaving Russia for North-and South America. Lena’s family stayed behind in the Soviet Union and the graphic novel is their story. \nBiography: \nLena Wolf was born in Latvia and grew up in Kazakhstan and later in Germany. Her parents are Germans from the Russian Empire. \nHer grandparents along with her parents\, who were very young\, were deported from German-speaking villages in Ukraine to Kazakhstan in 1941. They were put into special settlements and had to live there until December 1955\, 10 years after the end of WWII. They had no rights and were not allowed to leave the special settlements. Leaving their settlement resulted in severe punishment\, up to execution. \nEscaping the special settlement is exactly what Lena’s grandma Josephine did. Josephine wanted to go back to her village in Ukraine. She took her young son Adam with her\, Lena’s father. They were arrested and Josephine was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in the Gulag\, Vorkuta\, located 150 km north of the artic circle. Lena’s father was sent to a Ukrainian orphanage. \nThis is just one of the stories that made Lena want to write the graphic novel about the Germans from Russia\, people who stayed behind in the Soviet Union. She wants the world to know what happened to our people.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-35/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:March – Brenda Smith\, “An Uneasy Neighbor: Parsing a prison record to discover ‘Trapper Frank Weber’” \nPresentation: \nFranz “Shorty” Weber was a Polish German immigrant to the USA in 1902. By 1913 he had followed railway building to northern British Columbia where he tried farming before finding his solitary future as a fur trapper. Starting from Shorty’s 1940 prison admission form\, Brenda L. Smith has discovered his journey across North America to his life on the trap line on the northeastern slopes of the Rockie Mountains. \n  \nBiography: \nBrenda L. Smith is a Canadian historian and consultant with comprehensive in journalism\, cultural trusteeship\, and community development. She presents programs that teach family history research methodology. Brenda’s interest in historical research stems\, in part\, from her German grandparents’ origins in the Volga\, and accounts of survival crossing North America\, and achieving a new home in northeast British Cumbia. This spring Brenda will co-present Unlock Your Family Story: Writing and Publishing zyou Family History for Island Mountain Arts in Wells\, BC.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-36/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20240131T194621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T194621Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:February – Howard Foote and LaDonna Hunt\, “Chapters in Action: Restoration of an abandoned cemetery in Oklahoma” \nPresentation: \nIn the fall of 2017\, the Oklahoma chapter took on the restoration of the abandoned Mennonite Brethren Cemetery\, a few miles north\, of Eakly\, OK. \nTheir initial findings indicated that there were many issues that needed to be addressed\, so they went to work.  What they found was an enormous wealth of information and a lack of information about the people buried there.  Initially the investigation uncovered 4 visible head stones and a memorial stone that had been erected in 1998 to take the place of all the missing grave markers. Many birth and death dates were missing\, one birth date off by 30 years and much\, much more. \nBiographies: \nHoward Foote \nHoward grew up on a farm near the small town of Bessie\, Oklahoma\, a settlement of Germans from Russia from Ukraine.  He was originally taught to speak German but as soon as he started Sunday school all classes were in English\, and he completely forgot all his German except for a memorized short prayer. \nLiving in a Mennonite community he heard the low German Plautdietsch and decided to take German in college.  He graduated with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in German from Tabor College.  He became involved with the Central Oklahoma Chapter in 2006 and served as president of the chapter from 2013 – 2015.  He is an avid researcher and is involved with the Facebook group of Mennonite Genealogy and History. \nLadonna Hunt \nLadonna was born and raised on a farm southwest of Corn\, Oklahoma\, a Mennonite Brethren  community of Germans from Russia.  Although born into a GR family she knew very little of her heritage except  she learned that her grandfather had immigrated from Russia\, the Ukraine area\, when he was 2 years old. \nLaDonna spent summers in the wheat field helping her father and after the harvest worked the land on a tractor preparing for the next harvest. She graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and became a schoolteacher. \nShe learned more about her heritage when she began working with Howard Foote\, her second cousin.  Her interest was piqued when she located the 100-year-old  cemetery and learned so much more about her GR heritage – a heritage she loves to share with her family. \nIn the course of events\, she also learned that her mother’s parents had come from Russia too\, from the Frank area\, and that her parents and her brother were members of the Central Oklahoma AHSGR.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-29/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:January – Ann Stewart\, “REMNANTS: A Family’s Escape from Stalin’s Russia and the Child They Left Behind” \nPresentation: \nWhen I was in third grade\, my grandfather told me he had been imprisoned. “Lubyanka\,” he whispered as if I knew what that meant. “In Russia.” \nI was horrified\, wondering what my grandfather had done to be put in jail. And did this mean we were Russians? Worse yet\, Grandpa confessed\, to escape\, he and Grandma had left a child behind. That didn’t match anything I knew about these two beloved grandparents. \nYears later\, when I came home from my first year of college\, my dad asked me to investigate and record his in-laws’ story\, knowing it needed to be preserved for our family history. For the next forty years\, I wrote and rewrote\, gaining further knowledge through advances in technology and access to information\, waiting for the right time to publish the unbelievable story of two German Mennonites from the Crimea. I would learn how everything came down to one critical winter in Moscow 1929 when the rest of the world was falling apart economically. \nThe presentation will include visuals (photos and documents)\, stories\, and readings from the book. \nBiography: \nANN MARIE STEWART is the Christy Award® winning author of Stars in the Grass\, followed up by IPPY award winning Out of the Water\, and an October 2022 release of All is Calm\, All is Bright. The next book\, the narrative non-fiction REMNANTS shares her grandparents’ escape from Russia in 1929. \nAnn also authored Preparing My Heart for Advent\, Preparing My Heart for Easter\, and Preparing My Heart for Motherhood and writes the column “Ann’s Lovin’ Ewe” for The Country Register. Ann combines her experience in education\, musical theatre\, and film and television to dramatize her writing.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-23/
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220708T151745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240118T150813Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Allyn Brosz  \nAllyn Brosz is a South Dakota native with German Russian ancestry from Bessarabia and Glueckstal colonies.  He retired in 2021 from his career in the U.S. Department of Defense.  He is a life Member of AHSGR and GRHS as well as a member of the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association Steering Committee. In the past he served on the AHSGR Board of Directors\, worked with Emma Schwabenland Haynes in identifying Germans from Russia in the National Archives and has published articles in AHSGR’s Journals\, and Clues.  He has also been a presenter at numerous AHSGR and GRHS conventions. \nAllyn has a graduate degree in Political Science\, Public Administration and Policy\, and has studied in Germany on a Fulbright Grant. \nAllyn will focus his presentation on the photo taken by Augustus Sherman in 1905 while the family was detained for an immigration hearing at Ellis Island and the subsequent fate of the family once they were admitted. In addition\, he will also describe the Ellis Island experience during the peak immigration years of 1900 to 1920. \nClick Here to register on Zoom
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-17/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220927T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220927T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220708T151644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220921T202038Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Tatjana Schell \nBorn to a Volga German family\, Katrin Schell\, Tatjana’s mother\, spent her early childhood in the 1950s-1960s in the region of Omsk in western Siberia where her parents and their respective families had been brought to following the deportation from their native village of Seewald on the Volga River. Growing up as the middle child of her family\, she enjoyed the life in a tight-knit community of German families\, where children played outside even in subzero temperatures\, grandmothers ruled the household\, and chores were plentiful and to be done in a timely manner. \nIn 1966\, Katrin’s parents decided to move their family back to their Volga homeland\, after spending 25 years living in Siberia. After graduating from college\, she spent nearly twenty-five years working as a paramedic in the city of Volgograd. Following her family‘s move to Germany in the late 1990s\, she was able to continue working in the medical field in the new country. \nIn their Treffen Tuesday presentation\, Tatjana will ask Katrin about her time growing up in a small and tight-knit German community in Siberia and her adolescent years living in the village of Frank on the Volga. \n  \nClick Here to register on Zoom
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-16/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220830T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220830T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220708T151524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220812T160853Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Ann Braaten \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnn Braaten is an associate professor in the Apparel\, Retail Merchandising and Design program at North Dakota State University Emily Reynolds Historic Costume Collection at NDSU\, an archive of over 5000 clothing and textile items that reflect the history of the region\, the history of fashion and international dress.  The collection houses textile and clothing artifacts from the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at NDSU. Braaten focuses on Germans from Russia families’ shawls that had been passed through the woman’s side of the family to help bring women’s history into focus. \nCollection (GRHC) has built a textiles and clothing that is representative of the Germans from Russia (GFR) from the Bessarabian\, Black Sea\, Crimea\, Dobrudscha and Volhynian areas. Originally these textile objectified a member of this ethnic group. Today\, they provide evidence of GFR traditions\, traits\, and experiences. This presentation will highlight GFR textiles and clothing and related oral traditions to give evidence of their adaptation to the many challenges they encountered. The GRHC Textiles and Clothing Collection is a partnership between GRHC in the NDSU Libraries and Education.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick Here to Register on Zoom \n 
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-15/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220712T153000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220708T151222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240118T151606Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the Peter Hilkes presentation on the War in Ukraine has been rescheduled! Join us Tuesday\, July 12th at 2:00 PM Central. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE – Peter is presenting from Munich\, Germany.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Hilkes is a very well-known lecturer and researcher at Ludwig Maximillian University and Ukraine Free University in Munich.  In addition\, he works as a program coordinator for the House of Resources in Munich\, a network of Migrant organizations. \nHe has published on German monitories in the Soviet Union and the successor states as well as on integration issues in Germany regarding transformation in the educational system\, with a specific emphasis on Ukraine. \nPeter was the head of the information and coordination office for German-Ukraine relations in Berlin (2002-2008) and Senior Civil Society Expert of a non-government organization project at OSCE In Kiev in 2006. \nPeter is extremely  involved with the current Ukraine situation and the people fleeing to escape the horrors of the Russian invasion of their country. \n“War in Ukraine: situation and historical background.  The perspective from German Russians” \nPeter’s presentation will focus on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine and the traumatic effect on the people fleeing the invasion of their country. \nHe will share with us his vast knowledge of the history of Ukraine\, their people\, and their strong and brave defense of their country.  Millions of people have fled Ukraine but many of the husbands and fathers have remained behind to help ward off the invaders.  He will provide first-hand information on current events and the desire of a vast majority of migrants who wish to return to their country. \nClick Here to Register for Treffen Tuesday!
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-14/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220531T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220531T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220316T155828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220511T143720Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation we will learn why the sisters\, Jackie and Janine Pfeiffer\, decided to write a book about their childhood memories of the 1950’s. We will learn the background and how the documenting led to publication of their book\, While the Windmill Watched: A Slice of Rural America in the 1950’s.  Jackie and Janine grew up on the plains of North Dakota near Menoken\, just 10 miles east of Bismarck\, North Dakota.  The book is not only a memoir but also an historical account which highlights technological changes that advanced comfort and prosperity for rural America. They will include information about their Germans from Russia Heritage through their paternal grandmother\, Justina Brost Pfeiffer. You may wish to check out Memoir | While the Windmill Watched | Home
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-12/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220426T153000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20220316T154859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T154107Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Lena Wolf currently lives in London\, but grew up in Kazakhstan as a child of Germans from Russia parents. Lena’s mother Angelina\, was born in the German village of  Blumenfeld in Ukraine and her father Adam\, was born in the German village of  Gnadenfeld\, not far from Rostov on Don. Both were deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan when they were still very young. Lena’s family moved to Germany in 1990. She completed her two degrees\, BA in Linguistics\, and a Master’s in Management Studies\, in Wellington\, New Zealand. Lena is currently working on a graphic novel about the history of Germans from Russia in the Soviet Union. \nA Graphic Novel: The true story of a German family who stayed behind in the Soviet Union \nIn Lena’s graphic novel\, she tells the story of Germans from Russia who stayed behind in the Soviet Union. The story is told from the perspective of three women: Lena’s  grandmothers Emilia and Josephine and Lena. Grandma Emilia tells us about the deportation from her village in Russia to Kazakhstan\, a journey that took more than 4 weeks in freezing conditions. Grandma Josephine tells us about her gulag sentence of 20 years in Vorkuta\, a place located 150 km north of the arctic circle. Lena tells us about what it was like to grow up as a German child in Kazakhstan; Baking ‘Zuckerkuchen’ with her grandmother and eating ‘Beshbarmak’ (a Central Asian dish) with her friends. \nIn her presentation she will focus on one part of the story\, the deportation of Grandmother Emilia to Kazakhstan. She will show the latest illustrations and will meet Grandmother Emilia and Lena as graphic novel characters. Participants will learn how Grandmother Emilia survived when they arrived in Kazakhstan in -35 degrees (-31 Fahrenheit) and were dropped off in the snow covered steppe with no protection in sight.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-11/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220329T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220329T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20211105T203447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T154458Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Wayne Bonner  \nAlthough virtually all members of AHSGR have heard the story of Catharine the Great and her manifesto of 1763 inviting settlement in Russia\, not everyone is aware of the population movements that occurred prior to that epic migration. Numerous Germans\, primarily from the present German states of Baden-Wurttemberg and the Palatine (Pfalz)\, relocated to Brandenburg beginning in the 1740’s where Frederick the Great was building his new capital of Berlin and required skilled laborers.  Still others\, estimated to have been at least 5\,000\, answered the invitation of Frederick V of Denmark beginning in 1759 to settle unimproved land in the regions of Jutland and the Duchy of Schleswig \nThe Danish settlement movement has been studied for some time\, but most of the works were written in German or Danish and not generally available to researchers in North America. However\, in 2012 Drs. Alexander\, Jacob and Mary Eichhorn produced a volume that will stand for years as the principal investigation of the Danish “experience”. Wayne’s presentation will not delve so much into the history of this settlement\, but instead will discuss the specific parish records that the Eichhorn research alludes to. \nThe parish records of Denmark\, which at the tine included much of present-day Schleswig\, were researched for clues to events associated with the German “Colonists” as they were designated.   During this period\, children were born\, marriages were performed\, and colonists died. By examining virtually all the currently accessible parish records of Jutland and Schleswig for the time span between 1759 and 1766\, Mike Meisinger\, Herb Femling and Wayne\, have been able to identify some 500 entries that can be tied to specific German-Russian settlers.  Not only has this project identified these records and therefore added to the growing list of origins for many Volga settlers\, but also provided important clues to some of their origins in Germany. \nIn this presentation\, Wayne will discuss specific examples of some of the findings. Although our effort emphasizes examples of records associated with Balzer and Moor settlers\, additional parish records were identified of settlers to thirty-two other German-Russian colonies. Prior to the 2021 virtual AHSGR convention\,  a full copy of these records was sent to sent to AHSGR village coordinator group.  It is now posted on the new web site in the village records.\n\n\n\nClick Here to Register for Treffen Tuesday
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-10/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Garman:\nI am a native of Saskatchewan\, Canada\, with Germans from Russia ancestry in the Kutschurgan village of Elsass as well as the Mennonite colony of Chortitza. I hold a masters of history degree from Texas State University. The history of the Germans from Russia is one of my major research topics. I have presented at both GRHS & AHSGR conventions and write articles for publication. In 2018\, I visited my ancestral villages in the Kutschurgan region of Ukraine as part of the North Dakota State University Homeland Tour. I am currently president of the Arizona Sun Chapter of Germans from Russia. I make my home in Glendale\, Arizona and summer in Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan. \n“Go North Young Man: The remarkable story of Germans from Russia Immigration from the US to the Canadian Prairies – 1896 to 1914”\nMany of our Germans from Russia ancestors emigrated to Canada after their initial settlement in the United States. Today\, many Germans from Russia families have relatives on both sides of the border. Why did this pattern of immigration occur?? The Canadian west had been opened to settlement in the early 1870s\, yet very few immigrants chose to make this region their home. My presentation will tell the remarkable story of why immigration from the US to the Canadian Prairies flourished during the years from 1896 to 1914. I will describe the geographic\, economic\, and political factors that each played a role in the immigration journey for many of our Canadian ancestors. I will also tell what attracted many Germans from Russia to move from the American Midwest to the Canadian prairies.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-9/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220125T173000
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CREATED:20211105T203218Z
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SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Russ Gunther\, Volunteer “WikiTree” ambassador and Volga German sub-project coordinator. Russ attended Iowa State University where he studied Business Administration and minored in German. He spent a summer abroad studying German in Bregenz\, Austria. He has worked as the volunteer Ambassador for “WikiTree” Volga German sub-project since January 2014. “WikiTree” project covers the Volga\, Volhynian and Black Sea Germans.\nTreffen Tuesday\, January 25\, 2022\nDuring this presentation you will Learn about the world’s largest global family tree with collaborative design\, photos with links to individuals and links to sites such as “FindAGrave” and various genealogical/research organizations\, and so much more.\n“WikiTree” is a free to view\, free to create and research family tree\, and includes a global connection to nearly 30 million profiles with 9\,212\,017 DNA test connections. The site is edited by more than 869\,000 volunteers from around the world.\nJoin us for this look into one of the most exciting free resources for family connections and research. \nClick Here to Register for Treffen Tuesday!
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-8/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211026T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T125121
CREATED:20211105T203001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T220350Z
UID:10000031-1635269400-1635269400@ahsgr.org
SUMMARY:Treffen Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:“AHSGR Technology Strategy” presented by Bob Ahlbrandt
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/treffen-tuesday-7/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Treffen Tuesday
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