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RESOURCES
The links list provides a comprehensive collection of Volga German
(and Germans from Russia)
web sites as well as useful genealogy sites.
There are also a few outstanding regional sites where many Volga Germans were
know to settle. To find links to specific
Volga Village web sites go to the Volga Villages.
An excellent way to learn more about Volga Germans and to find other
researchers is to join the electronic
Volga German mail list.
To participate you must join the list by subscribing by simply
sending an email. There is no fee and no personal
information required. Once you are subscribed, any message sent to the
list will also be sent to you, at the email
address that you subscribed from. If you send a message to the list, it
will automatically be sent to all members of
the VG mail list, currently over 500 member. At any time you may
unsubscribe by sending a email. The VG mail list has been in operation
since 1998. You may browse or search the
mail list archives, to see what topics
have been discussed. Members of the VG
mail list vary from newbies to exceptionally knowledgeable researchers
and historians. Most importantly, we are a
generous community that help each other by sharing our knowledge. Many
sections of the Volga German web site
were built from information provided by VG mail list members.
Search for an ancestral village or surname on other web sites using this search page. The
search includes all other web sites know to include
Volga German information. This search does not include this Volga
Germans web site. To search the Volga Germans web site return to home.
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There is a growing list of books written about the Volga Germans. May of
these books have been published by AHSGR.
The earlier books were more historical overviews of the Volga Germans.
An excellent book to understand all German from Russia
history is From Catherine to Khrushchev: The Story of Russia's Germans
by Adam Giesinger. One of the
earlier and best know books on Germans from Russia is The Emigration
from Germany to Russia in the Years
1763 to 1862 by Karl Stumpp. For the VG research the information is
limited, most of the information is about
non-Volga Germans. Therefore I would not recommend it as an early
purchase for a VG library.
Instead, the recent books
written by Brent A. Mai and published by AHSGR provide a wealth of
genealogical information for the VG researcher. These include;
Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the
Colonies on the Volga 1766-1767,
German Migration to the Russian Volga 1764-1767: Origins and
Destinations (co-authored with Donna Reeves Marquardt) and the
1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga
Economy, Population, and Agriculture,.
Other genealogical books about Volga Germans, have been written by
Igor Pleve, the Russian genealogist. His
books are first written in German and Russian and AHSGR has translated
and published many of the them.
They are;
The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the 18th Century,
(Translated by Richard Rye),
and
Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 / Immigration to the
Volga Region, 1764-1767
Vol. 1 & Vol. 2(edited by Dr. Alfred Eisfeld).
The content of may of these books is discussed under
genealogical records as well.
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