Work Paper #9 (October 1972)

Work Paper #9 (October 1972)

Cover: Springhouse at the Cloisters at Zagorsk. Contains papers presented at the Third Annual Convention of AHSGR held at Boulder, Colorado, June 1972; presidential address by David J. Miller, “The Germans From Russia: Pioneers on Four Continents”; the major address by Rev. Hermann Zwecker on Germans in Russia today, “Far Behind the Ural Mountains”; “Pioneer Stories From the Volga” by Emma S. Haynes; “The Migrations of Germans From Russia to the Americas” by Adam Giesinger; and “Genealogical Records of the Volga Germans” by Mrs. Haynes. The Genealogy Workshops provided papers on “Federal Homestead Records” by T. J. Schmierer and “Passenger Lists” by Gwen Pritzkau. Committee and Workshop reports of the convention are included. The “Surname Exchange” completes the issue.