IIGS™ Newsletter - January 1999
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IIGS™ Newsletter - January 1999
Researchers with German-Russian roots have one of the best research tools at their disposal on the Internet. That tool is the Odessa Library.
The Odessa Library offers a growing digital collection of research documents which is browsable, searchable and downloadable. According to information on its web page, the library's collection amounted to 105 megabytes as of January 1998.
Among the library's holdings which are available for download via FTP are:
- Genealogical articles
- The Bessarabian Collection
- Cemetery records
- US Census records of German-Russians and Russian Mennonite census records between 1795 and 1814
- Church records
- Family histories (some in GEDCOM format, others not)
- Immigration, Migration, Naturalization, and Ship Records
- Obituaries
- Photographs
- Genealogies of some German-Russian villages
The list above represents only a portion of the wealth of research material at the site.
Of particular interest is an article by Tom Stangl and Janice Huber-Stangl on the films of the Berlin Document Center at the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland. According to the authors, the films can only be viewed at the archives in Maryland, but are available for purchase. The Stangls offer valuable information on how to research these records.
The documents in the collection were captured by the Allies in 1945 and housed at the Berlin Document Center where they were microfilmed. The microfilms are now held by the National Archives, Archives II, in College Park.