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SUMMARY:AHSGR Book Club-Anna's Red Purse
DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOCvrz8oEtbyF1mwmHpsjzR-fbqtdu2Y \nBuy Anna’s Red Purse: https://ahsgr.org/product/annas-red-purse/
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-book-club-annas-red-purse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231024T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
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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:20231023T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
CREATED:20230313T193224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T211916Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Germans from Russia Genealogy II
DESCRIPTION:Join us October 23\, 2023 for a zoom genealogy event! \nCost: Free to members and $20 to nonmembers; Sign up is required \nVirtual Only \nThis workshop will provide an overview on how to start your journey to discover your German Russian roots by showing you how to find your ancestors’ Russian village. Attendees will also have an hour and a half to tour the library and archives\, familiarize themselves with what is available onsite and online\, and talk to the Archivists and the presenter. Make sure to sign up by October 15\, 2023. (Presentation will be filmed and placed on website for members-only access after November 1) \n\nRegistration Now Closed
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/introduction-to-germans-from-russia-genealogy-ii/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231021T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
CREATED:20230313T193959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T211906Z
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SUMMARY:Preserving Your Family Photos and Archives Workshop (Celebrating Archives Day)
DESCRIPTION:  \nLet’s Celebrate Archives Day! AHSGR’s Archivist Karen Keehr will present a workshop on how to care for\, preserve\, and organize your family photos\, papers\, and other items. This is a Virtual Event on Zoom. \nCost: Free for member\, $15 for non-members \n  \nRegistration Now Closed
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/preserving-your-family-photos-and-archives-workshop-celebrating-archives-day/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
CREATED:20230313T193654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T142152Z
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Oktoberfest
DESCRIPTION:Join AHSGR and it’s partners for a South Bottoms Neighborhood Oktoberfest. Kinkaider Brewing will host a beer garden with some of their best brews on tap (must be 21 to partake) and Group Therapy will offer pedal car shuttles between AHSGR and the Haymarket. Additional activities for all ages will include: music\, games\, museum tours\, a bouncy house\, and more. Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for a free will donation thanks to our generous donors. \n 
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/oktoberfest-2/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231002
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
CREATED:20230313T192938Z
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SUMMARY:Temporary Exhibit: Beer Steins
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URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/temporary-exhibit-beer-steins/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163037
CREATED:20240131T200124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T200124Z
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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:20230918T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230918T151500
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230719T194716Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \nSeptember 18\, 2023 \n2:00 pm CDT: Book Club. \nWe will be reading From the Steppes to the Prairie: The Germans from Russia migrations told by the Zahl and Schissler families by Kara Louise Hefner. \n  \n  \nThese are stories of her Germans from Russia great-grandparents\, told in their own words from diaries\, interviews\, photos\, scrapbooks\, historical records and family accounts. This book is a companion to Gumma’s Recipe Book: Celebrating Germans from Russia food and memories from the Zahl family. \n  \n  \nClick Here to Register \n  \nPurchase Book Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-book-club-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20240131T200326Z
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;VALUE=DATE:20230803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230806
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230124T171912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T181912Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR 2023 Annual Convention Registration
DESCRIPTION:https://ahsgr.leemediagroup.com/?post_type=tribe_events&p=24646
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-2023-annual-convention/
LOCATION:Doubletree by Hilton Greeley at Lincoln Park\, 919 7th St\, Greeley\, CO\, 80631\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230806
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20220816T154918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T193602Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR 53rd Annual Convention
DESCRIPTION:https://ahsgr.leemediagroup.com/?post_type=tribe_events&p=21820
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-53rd-annual-convention/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton at Lincoln Park\, 919 7th St\, Greeley\, CO\, 80631\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230627T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
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:20230624T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230624T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230313T192628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T212628Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR’s Bunnock Day and Launch of South Bottoms Historic Tours
DESCRIPTION:Visit AHSGR’s campus in the Historic South Bottoms District in Lincoln\, Nebraska\, for a day of fun and learning! Try your hand at the classic German-Russian game\, Bunnock\, and go on our new walking tour of the historic neighborhood and learn about the influence of German-Russian immigrants in its development. Enjoy light refreshments\, guided tours of campus\, and instruction in the game of Bunnock. \nCost: Suggested Donation
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgrs-1st-annual-bunnock-day/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230609T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230609T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230313T192353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T144430Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR’s Technology “Office Hours”
DESCRIPTION:AHSGR’s technology staffer\, Jonathan\, will be available to assist members with basic technology questions and training relating to our website\, online resources\, signing up for events and purchasing tickets\, using our online store\, and other skills that will help our members interact with us. Office hours are in-person or online but sign-up is required for 15-30 minute appointments. To reserve your time slot\, please contact egengenbach@ahsgr.org or call 402-474-3363\, ext. 101 \nCost: Open to Members Only-donations accepted
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgrs-technology-office-hours/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230602
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230313T192209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T192209Z
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SUMMARY:Temporary Exhibit: Bunnock
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/temporary-exhibit-bunnock/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
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:20230522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230522T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230307T174447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T163633Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR Book Club: The Last Green Valley
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a book club discussing of The Last Green Valley by best-selling author Mark Sullivan. Mark will be speaking at the AHSGR Convention in Greeley\, Colorado.\n\nThe Last Green Valley is a work of historical fiction\, inspired by a true story. The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime\, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of emigrating to the West\, the Martels’ story is a brutal\, complex\, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love\, faith\, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized.\n\nRegister for book club here: Last Green Valley Book Club Sign Up\n\nMore information about convention here: AHSGR 2023 Convention
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-book-club-the-last-green-valley/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20240131T200550Z
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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:20230408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230216T200845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230316T161751Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:April 8th \nCost: Donation \nTime: 1pm-4pm \nJoin us and Friedens Lutheran Church as we resume our tour season of the historic buildings on the AHSGR campus in Lincoln’s South Bottoms. Light refreshments\, an egg hunt and games with prizes\, and more. Come learn more about the German Russian heritage in your own hometown. \n  \nEgg Hunt Starts at 2:00 PM
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230402
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SUMMARY:Temporary Exhibit: Hattie Plum Williams
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URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/temporary-exhibit-hattie-plum-williams/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T183000
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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-30/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230313T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20230207T150430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T201052Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR Intro to German Russian Genealogy
DESCRIPTION:Intro to Germans from Russia Genealogy  \nMarch 13th \nCost: Free to members and $20 to nonmembers; Sign up is required \nLimit: 15 people \nTime: 1pm-4pm \n  \nGenealogist and long-time AHSGR member Mike Meisinger will provide an overview on how to start your journey to discover your German Russian roots including: how to find your ancestors’ Russian village\, resources available based on that information\, and how to find the German origin of your ancestors before they migrated to the Russian Empire. Attendees will also have an hour and a half to tour the library and archives\, familiarize themselves with what is available onsite and online\, and talk to the Librarian and Archivist and the presenter. Make sure to sign up by March 9\, 2023. (Presentation will be filmed and placed on website for members-only access after March 22) \n  \nClick Here to Register \n 
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-intro-to-german-russian-genealogy/
LOCATION:AHSGR Headquarters\, 631 D St.\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68502\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230305
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20221031T162249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T162249Z
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SUMMARY:RootsTech 2023
DESCRIPTION:Visit AHSGR’s booth at the 2023 RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City\, Utah.  The conference will be held March 2-4\, 2023\, both in-person and virtually. Registration is open now.
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/rootstech-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230228T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
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:20230227T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230227T150000
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CREATED:20230106T224320Z
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SUMMARY:AHSGR Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 27 to talk about Second Hoeing by Hope Williams Sykes. This historical fiction novel is considered a classic. The plot revolves around the Schreissmiller family and their trials and tribulations as Germans from Russia immigrants working the sugar beet fields. Your purchase through the online store supports AHSHR and its mission.\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom Here\n\n\nPurchase Here
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/ahsgr-book-club-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
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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:20221107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20221012T145520Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 7 to talk about Then the Rules Changed by Carolyn Zeisset. The author will be there to give background information and hopefully\, tell more of the story that comes from her own Mennonite family history. \nRegister on Zoom Here \nPurchase Here \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/book-club/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163038
CREATED:20221031T160732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T160954Z
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SUMMARY:WikiTree Genealogy Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Visit AHSGR Virtual Booth at WikiTree’s 14th Annual Genealogy Symposium\nAHSGR is participating in WikiTree’s 14th Annual Genealogy Symposium November 4-5\, 2022. The event is free to attend; there will be many videos to view on Friday that leads into presentations and games throughout Saturday. While people can participate without registering\, those who do sign up are eligible for all events\, games\, and door prizes.\nRegistration and links to daily itineraries are located on the WikiTree:\nLink to the AHSGR WikiTree
URL:https://ahsgr.org/event/2022-wikitree-genealogy-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221025T190000
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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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