tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23009704095850451472024-03-10T17:29:33.608-07:00Germans from Russia Settlement LocationsGoogle Maps of Ancestral German Colonies (1700-1939) Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-28122522651691714242024-02-24T09:35:00.001-07:002024-02-24T09:35:10.139-07:00Remembering the German Settlements in Ukraine<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Zxj1xlQ-4rKUJdmCbPCWMIrmjn7ULTKnqp2oM4snPB-t8H0Dm3RJOnuSZvV3z1HA0vx3zSFLXG1PWgFJG6zPHIfKigV9omelR2HdYU8KykzlJxevkSE_v7dNzdPA6BbrwZJQopeeXmcdVzssJwdSqbaH-b1KO_joMEQ74KUqvuq_CnLkfBBXjn44tRXq/s1568/ukraine%202024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1568" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Zxj1xlQ-4rKUJdmCbPCWMIrmjn7ULTKnqp2oM4snPB-t8H0Dm3RJOnuSZvV3z1HA0vx3zSFLXG1PWgFJG6zPHIfKigV9omelR2HdYU8KykzlJxevkSE_v7dNzdPA6BbrwZJQopeeXmcdVzssJwdSqbaH-b1KO_joMEQ74KUqvuq_CnLkfBBXjn44tRXq/w640-h488/ukraine%202024.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remembering the German settlements in Ukraine on this day, 24 February 2024. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Between 1766 and 1942, Germans lived in over 3,000 places within the borders of Ukraine today, in both urban and rural settlements. Many were established by Germans after 1804. These places—whether they still exist or not, whether their names are the same or not—remain in the hearts of the descendants as one our ancestral homelands.</span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9o6g4" data-offset-key="ain4j-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ain4j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ain4j-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Slava Ukraini! </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9o6g4" data-offset-key="21h4f-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21h4f-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="21h4f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9o6g4" data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c2b33; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">🇺🇦🌻</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"># # #</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="4ibt8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-22486463136797556852023-12-29T15:08:00.000-07:002023-12-29T15:08:05.699-07:00One Last Update for 2023<p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So ends 2023. I am happy with the map work completed this year. It all turned out just as I had hoped. </p><p>There have been a few miscellaneous additions and updates to the maps since the last update in October. I wanted to get them posted and documented so they don’t get lost in the sauce. Here is a rundown: </p><p></p><ol><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new URL for the <a href="https://volgagermaninstitute.org/" target="_blank">Volga German Institute</a> has been updated on the map for places that refer to it. It is also updated on the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/sources.html" target="_blank">Sources</a> page. It will take longer to get all the blog posts updated. I am pleased it finally found a permanent domain name that will not change.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">All maps have been updated with the new <a href="https://youtu.be/pflYeNnAGHY" target="_blank">project introduction/tutorial video</a>. In the process, I made a list of descriptions I need to write for the maps that do not have one yet. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ten new places were added and one location updated. Additions — <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=51.4213404223833%2C55.051136138653604&z=17" target="_blank">Razboyka</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1EgTmnunDxn9_GAtw4_73FQHdW4P8CnyR&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Orenberg</a>); <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.942562289713884%2C74.7041282021008&z=17" target="_blank">Dachniy</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.942110812849904%2C74.73113230510647&z=16" target="_blank">Dzhargazar</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.791780396898496%2C74.91700769361326&z=16" target="_blank">Friedenfeld</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.88805048764621%2C75.0880507195687&z=15" target="_blank">Ivanovka</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.9361245959809%2C74.71268583344568&z=17" target="_blank">Kolkhoz International</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.9289%2C74.74119999999999&z=17" target="_blank">Kroyt-Dzhaparovskoye</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.88789690603615%2C74.83088542327883&z=17" target="_blank">Luxemburg</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.873500000000035%2C74.72169999999998&z=17" target="_blank">Novopokrovskoye</a>, and <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=42.8266%2C75.2909&z=17" target="_blank">Tokmok</a> (<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KopwoqGy6-NxslRGYDwtYE70lscerxQ&ll=44.000975644996416%2C78.53160000000001&z=6" target="_blank">Semirechensk</a>). U</span>pdated — <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=51.423685334151926%2C55.05994243133428&z=18" target="_blank">Pfeifer (Orenburg)</a>. Thanks to Reik Kneisel in Germany for these. His family lived in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and he provided details for all these places. </li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=46.94589999999998%2C34.704900000000016&z=18" target="_blank">Basilewski (Taurida)</a> was added. The name of this place was discovered in Eugenfeld parish records by Jörg Fischer in Germany. Thanks to Jörg for sending to me. We worked together on finding another colony in the Bergdorf parish in the Glückstal enclave a couple of years ago. </li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=47.29327080026836%2C38.17053399518797&z=16" target="_blank">Klemesch-Chutor (Mariupol enclave)</a> was added thanks to historical maps and other information provided by Derek Lambert. Thanks to Derek for providing such great details. </li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=48.654268242047266%2C37.68063236554929&z=16" target="_blank">Belokuz’minovka (Ekaterinoslav)</a> was added. Thanks to Jim Cole for this one. He had two records (immigration and death) with different spellings, but we were able to find it. </li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=45.96967256956489%2C28.47538598847016&z=17" target="_blank">Albota (Bessarabia)</a> was added. Not sure how I missed this one given that it was a parish, but thanks to Allyn Brosz for pointing it out. </li><li>And speaking of <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1cN_Us8DJ_GmD4hwnYwiIt4uasA0&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Bessarabia</a> and parishes, I went through and added sources to those colonies that had parishes in the beginning (1814) and at the end (1939). I tried to sort out and document parish splits, although I am not sure I got them all. Some sources list them all, while others list just where they were just prior to WWII. For those places with parishes, there is now a link to a <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/research_church-bess.html" target="_blank">collection of church records translated by Black Sea German Research</a>. They are organized by parish, but fortunately, the translated records are recorded by village name so the parish does not matter much for the Lutheran church records. Just search the page for your village name, or, even easier, use the search box to search for a surname.</li><li>All in all, 19 maps (regional, provinces, enclaves) were updated. Yeah, this sounds crazy since you may only use one or two of them, but someday it will all make sense. I promise.</li></ol><p style="text-align: left;">I am still working on the to do list for 2024. Right now, the plans for research next year include the central part of Great Russia, the Far North, and western provinces as I more or less outlined <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/2023/11/harvesting-and-seeding.html">in this post</a>. Not as many Germans as elsewhere, but I would like to fill in what I know so that the map can be used as a teaching tool without any huge gaps in it. I need to get the full survey of provinces with Germans in them in order to move forward with some other work. There is also another round of deportation locations that will go up onto the map, mostly focused on where Black Sea Germans were exiled. </p><p style="text-align: left;">May 2024 bring you good cheer, good friends, good health, and peace on Earth. I am going to keep wishing for that last one until it finally happens. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Prost!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CeIUq9gBbW14AJ3TnoiKqjH08o1ygoqLVFnONXISHMSh7YIh9H1pjftTFHW7h9kYBgA5wVTmGV1R5W65IxKnDT-8froJffCzkSCIyW6C8JoR3MJGVu-XSaCufA9tvmhDSTIsIpujIqmBkm5m6UcSvNAmXKh7Pmmx-XVoEZNPiaE2fY8_3U8-UZBdmXVX/s1199/greg%20or%20ian%20calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1199" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CeIUq9gBbW14AJ3TnoiKqjH08o1ygoqLVFnONXISHMSh7YIh9H1pjftTFHW7h9kYBgA5wVTmGV1R5W65IxKnDT-8froJffCzkSCIyW6C8JoR3MJGVu-XSaCufA9tvmhDSTIsIpujIqmBkm5m6UcSvNAmXKh7Pmmx-XVoEZNPiaE2fY8_3U8-UZBdmXVX/w640-h444/greg%20or%20ian%20calendar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><ol><br /></ol><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":13249,"3":{"1":0},"9":0,"10":0,"11":0,"12":0,"15":"Courier New","16":10}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tokmok (Semirechensk)"}" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-61658788356750462432023-12-23T12:09:00.003-07:002023-12-23T12:09:59.475-07:00Frohe Weihnachten!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiopGoedD3CFbjlj3cY4aqcdhuaRVrToYvdteTl390wp0ZI6SPAxNUj5yZWjjA4X-pA3j034C1p6B3G_vGlaFTmaidN659Bb7bvm3QL3k-7iVK2oalQ_kzorqOYlbE4Vfx4v7ip5iF0PzCKe87pJfGHnHFwWNQPdh7GPRx5lp9r_r3zjykWhNGWiU-WJPz7/s2416/2023%20GRSL%20Christmas%20card.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="2416" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiopGoedD3CFbjlj3cY4aqcdhuaRVrToYvdteTl390wp0ZI6SPAxNUj5yZWjjA4X-pA3j034C1p6B3G_vGlaFTmaidN659Bb7bvm3QL3k-7iVK2oalQ_kzorqOYlbE4Vfx4v7ip5iF0PzCKe87pJfGHnHFwWNQPdh7GPRx5lp9r_r3zjykWhNGWiU-WJPz7/w640-h264/2023%20GRSL%20Christmas%20card.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Merry Christmas to All and Peace in the New Year.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"># # #</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><p></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-27266502117733463672023-12-16T16:21:00.005-07:002023-12-16T16:29:15.550-07:00Video: The Forgotten Stories of Russian-German Immigrants<p>Sharing a recent, short documentary by the news service<a href="https://www.dw.com/" target="_blank"> DW’s (Deutsche Well)</a> History and Culture <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DWHistoryandCulture" target="_blank">YouTube channel </a>entitled “The Forgotten Stories of Russian-German Immigrants.”</p><p><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LG1tCfAZBMY?si=BbbEoPn-Jap0pczW" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> # # #</div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-62994551140709330432023-11-10T14:22:00.007-07:002023-11-10T15:14:43.406-07:00Harvesting and Seeding<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6iOxmSbbAf8gpza4z6K2XWkkF1Ha9krZN9UboIjerm3s4OZBfFD_zNDXq3OI2DDD1wcVVFFPrpjLp9YV35K_5lrTTl-0vRfxJsNRYyMQe-gWUg-PgtsQ4w7vjStXAGu-8dIkChW7nnO1im1SEZv7bu1EefHRb87ZXjw6KCTDah-GGT6k14NWrNKy0Jah/s1442/harvest%20graphic.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1442" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6iOxmSbbAf8gpza4z6K2XWkkF1Ha9krZN9UboIjerm3s4OZBfFD_zNDXq3OI2DDD1wcVVFFPrpjLp9YV35K_5lrTTl-0vRfxJsNRYyMQe-gWUg-PgtsQ4w7vjStXAGu-8dIkChW7nnO1im1SEZv7bu1EefHRb87ZXjw6KCTDah-GGT6k14NWrNKy0Jah/w640-h614/harvest%20graphic.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2024 to-do list<br />From the top going clockwise: light blue = Far North or Novgorodian Russia.; red = Central or Muscovite Russia; purple = Little Russia or the Zaporizhian Host; dark blue = Southwestern Krai or Right-Bank Ukraine; yellow = Northwestern Krai; fuschia = Baltic or Ostsee governorates.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The last couple of weeks have been spent relaxing, harvesting data from a few sources, and planting seed locations for spring. </p><p>The central part of Great Russia, the Far North and western provinces were not home to very many Germans, except St. Petersburg and the Baltic provinces. Elsewhere, they were there in smaller numbers. But they <i>were</i> there. Traditional Germans from Russia research rarely include these areas because of the smaller numbers and also they were not there because of Catherine the Great or Tsar Alexander I. They had different immigration stories...but, at the end, similar deportation stories. Also in the queue for next year is another round of deportation locations. </p><p>Stay tuned see how all shakes out. The map grows and becomes more useful every year. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-86455556828821572062023-10-27T17:38:00.002-07:002023-10-27T17:38:27.632-07:00Map Update: Podolia Province<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JqcZmCvUlxAw6GCu3zElnVykbep70TU2ZLVNCP37b5ZM6THQ4TpDvA5z3z50SPmPZ2UugioSpIvN_AsI3bzTCNxPIMrm20torm-2isPqx7sv-rzWAxnKNfGbQq9q-w4HWJX_YouX3f1vv-z-n5eLuxMJL0JxxZgiPeyLt4ByqooNNOb94gV4V_rrkPsh/s7598/11233005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7598" data-original-width="7348" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8JqcZmCvUlxAw6GCu3zElnVykbep70TU2ZLVNCP37b5ZM6THQ4TpDvA5z3z50SPmPZ2UugioSpIvN_AsI3bzTCNxPIMrm20torm-2isPqx7sv-rzWAxnKNfGbQq9q-w4HWJX_YouX3f1vv-z-n5eLuxMJL0JxxZgiPeyLt4ByqooNNOb94gV4V_rrkPsh/w618-h640/11233005.jpg" width="618" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">1829 General Map of the Podolsk Province.<br /><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~288382~90060066#" target="_blank">Generalnaia karta Podolskoi Gubernii = Mappa generalna Gubernii Podolskiey</a><br />Source: <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/" target="_blank">David Rumsey Map Collection</a><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>In September, volunteers at <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/" target="_blank">Black Sea German Research</a> released translations of <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/pdfs/st-petes/podolia-niemirow-births-1833-1866.pdf" target="_blank">births</a> and <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/pdfs/st-petes/podolia-niemirow-marr-1833-1866.pdf" target="_blank">marriages</a> recorded in the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=48.97310456239445%2C28.847115000000016&z=14" target="_blank">Niemirow</a> Lutheran parish in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1HOutMCdtVrSFAKswi2nXCFIdN8RgZsbc&ll=48.51387425966627%2C29.044229982738514&z=7" target="_blank">Podolia</a> covering the years 1833–1866 from <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67VS-LNC?owc=M6VL-4T1%3A295801801%2C295867201%2C295867202%3Fcc%3D1469151&wc=M6VL-H3R%3A295801801%2C295867201%2C295867202%2C295802104&cc=1469151" target="_blank">FamilySearch</a>. Earlier this year, I had already combed the BSGR database for references to this region, including EWZ records. Having accumulated a bunch of new places from these records and the <a href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=1104" target="_blank">1897 Imperial census</a>, it was time to update Podolia. </p><p>Podolia or Podolsk or Podilla (I have to choose one spelling for the sake of simplicity) province was organized after becoming a part of the Russian Empire in 1793 after the Second Partition of Poland. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG9nCqrQ8pzZcHZd9Wt0rIAA6lCX-9cmxvkm67csnpDiMsV1_4Ngzor2eN7yrkF2zzzFs69hgJgov0g_ApC0bm_Ch9OcqC6ioGkfKDtHGpX0ClAjMQwqVMhpohk8Mdd8FqkBVjiphsg4PnwuP_98mHNGOz9jiIeCg8ctXRTtea1R7bmSA72sLe789RRE05/s1906/Partitions%20of%20Poland.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1568" data-original-width="1906" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG9nCqrQ8pzZcHZd9Wt0rIAA6lCX-9cmxvkm67csnpDiMsV1_4Ngzor2eN7yrkF2zzzFs69hgJgov0g_ApC0bm_Ch9OcqC6ioGkfKDtHGpX0ClAjMQwqVMhpohk8Mdd8FqkBVjiphsg4PnwuP_98mHNGOz9jiIeCg8ctXRTtea1R7bmSA72sLe789RRE05/w640-h526/Partitions%20of%20Poland.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Podolia is in the lower right side of the mid-shade of...what is that color?...dusty mauve? <br /><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rzeczpospolita_Rozbiory_3.png" target="_blank">The Partitions of Poland.</a> Source: Halibutt, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The area had many historical affiliations including the Kievan Rus', the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Ottoman Empire. The territory today includes mostly the Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky oblasts and part of the Odessa oblast in Ukraine. It also includes a bit of the Transnistria part of Moldova. </p><p>Given its proximity to the provinces of Volhynia and Bessarabia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (part of that empire is mapped <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1fOGEYqQY6ga8W9MJXisies5L8uk&ll=48.24613230618154%2C23.166484693741708&z=7" target="_blank">here</a>), it is not too surprising that some of the marriages and births recorded occurred outside of the province in neighboring areas. Maybe the places in Austria-Hungary were a little surprising. The Niemirow parish was established in 1782 with parishioners in 10 villages. A filial parish in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=48.89610000000001%2C26.858600000000017&z=18" target="_blank">Dunayivtsi</a> was founded in 1806. The map below shows where Lutherans lived in 1864. I marked it up for research. In a sea of Orthodox neighbors (green) with Catholics well-distributed (pink), there are just six islands of Lutherans (blue). Of course, they were more widely and thinly dispersed than this historical map shows.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-I8ZFCEXQOlUAvSVzbYO-i6ORaXgP-fGRIEnwhy4aZ-LBNL_6CWfVV1o9hUvXz5QcRCwmyOh_LsaNXgDV9NK0Jt9P4TFrEa-dS8LE4wWPT3tro8v-Gf131P5p1zs7gq5HLA-5OenDajiyD9LbMVbkuQMNY_1srNX7yIvaAf8oKQGzgsSCuu6D_fFpV3ZG/s7457/1864%20population%20Podolsk%20rittich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6349" data-original-width="7457" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-I8ZFCEXQOlUAvSVzbYO-i6ORaXgP-fGRIEnwhy4aZ-LBNL_6CWfVV1o9hUvXz5QcRCwmyOh_LsaNXgDV9NK0Jt9P4TFrEa-dS8LE4wWPT3tro8v-Gf131P5p1zs7gq5HLA-5OenDajiyD9LbMVbkuQMNY_1srNX7yIvaAf8oKQGzgsSCuu6D_fFpV3ZG/w640-h544/1864%20population%20Podolsk%20rittich.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1864 Podolsk Province, population according to confession. Source: <a href="http://www.etomesto.ru/map/base/100/kam-podolsk-rittich.jpg" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Overall, there were not very many Germans in this province. According to the <a href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=1104" target="_blank">First General Census of the Russian Empire</a> in 1897, there were 4,069 native German speakers in Podolia, which amounted to just .13% of the total population of the province. </p><p>The main occupation of the residents was agriculture. Products grown included walnuts, apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries. Grapes were grown near the Dniester river, and winemaking existed in Olgopolsky, Baltsky, Yampolsky and Ushitsky districts. Sewing sheepskins into coats and boots, pottery, woodworking, and stone cutting were also noted occupations. </p><p>I was not able to find every place in the church records, but I did find most of them. For some there were too many possibilities, and without a district to narrow it down, I would be guessing as to which one was correct. Some of the spellings yielded absolutely nothing. I did use the spelling in the church record as the primary ancestral name, so they should be easy to find. </p><p>The following maps have been updated: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477986%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Settlement Locations</a> (the big map)</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1HOutMCdtVrSFAKswi2nXCFIdN8RgZsbc&ll=48.51387425966627%2C29.044229982738514&z=7" target="_blank">Podolia Province</a></li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1whJFKmxZPDBHLMNFQ09m1ic4ENghmFc&ll=50.78556481809709%2C42.9825350391866&z=5" target="_blank">German Settlements in European Russia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1GzTY9bcy0CfpEUg37YKOgfLiSs99YiFO&ll=49.64846888348992%2C28.06030644609939&z=7" target="_blank">Southwest Russia</a> (provinces of Kyiv, Podolia, Volhynia)</li><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1VPPpSAnGMgUudFJmUrWW7gTpGLc&ll=45.27112615575284%2C38.24562472007274&z=6" target="_blank">German Settlements in the Black Sea Region</a></li></ul><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1HOutMCdtVrSFAKswi2nXCFIdN8RgZsbc&ll=48.65013618224487%2C28.453719204609417&z=8" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="2908" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjs68P2eq8404o3v5RBCeDUzKXozqclhPotnLB8SSmgAOhX659FxyToPTxPRl01X_0gej6AfbsxTpE3wh6wV8xSsaf5pmybmSAWrR2Y16m_lQvzL1v-wULqLD7SPC-21QNw9-AOnzhMeVdehD4KHPjsitJC75pxLVt0F0s_YW15XVMTGO_PAMPjofe7o-/w640-h364/Screenshot%202023-10-27%20at%205.21.03%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">German settlements in the Podolia Province. </td></tr></tbody></table><p>I am winding down early now to enjoy the end of the year, so this is the last map update for a few months. Research will continue and more posted in the new year</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-47687954983844965512023-10-15T17:06:00.006-07:002023-10-15T17:20:19.664-07:00Farewell Forever Kleinliebental<b>Author’s note (tl;dr)—</b>This map was inspired the article <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/sites/default/files/image-directory/histories/Histories-Villages-GoodbyeKleinliebental.pdf" target="_blank">“Goodbye Forever to Kleinliebental Near Odessa” (“Abschied für immer aus Kleinliebental bei Odessa”)</a>, an anonymously written account of the resettlement of the Germans living this village in the Ukrainian SSR to the Kazakh SSR in early October 1941.<br /><br />In the course of my research to illustrate the article on a map, it became clear that the Kleinliebental in <b>the title</b> of the article <b>did not match</b> with <b>the location described </b>in the article, and in the end was clearly <b>not the Kleinliebental near Odessa</b>. I hesitated releasing the map. I didn’t want to add to the false impression of which Kleinliebental the article was about. It was not the neat and tidy package of a story I thought it would be about one village’s experience with deportation. But not all stories follow straight lines or clear paths, and there is nothing neat and tidy about “population movements,” as we’ve seen history repeat itself in this area in what seems like only yesterday. I decided that the story map was still worth sharing, even if it just provokes thought or conversation about the subject.<br /><br />The comments and observations are my own and do not represent any of those who were involved in the writing, editing, translation, or publishing of the original article.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">• • •</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1_Bsncsi6zj-wKIgv7ezbkC72YPU6YGmL&usp=sharing " style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2024" data-original-width="3118" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj82xjQJ75oEENnFZVKRqW1sIsmDKjF9VOUhWoRomkS0PmcgVzRbxdjca13-jDj11EHkhNCn-FytuqNrcUPRMI9XcXiKGBxuAUnhDXGHyYou9UH3zIWBTKG99miVE-FM1EiWyv9z-aV9KMQLgFlU1AtqETjLuUyG74ouQ-lJoazfagOKnc_wIs-vDOq8aSJ/w640-h416/KL%20map%20image.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;">Farewell Forever Kleinliebental</h2><blockquote>“Equally shaken and surprised on the morning of June 22, 1941, our colony woke to the news of the onset of war. Those who still had bad memories of the First World War were in deep shock. All dreaded only the worst…” <br /> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span>From “<a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/sites/default/files/image-directory/histories/Histories-Villages-GoodbyeKleinliebental.pdf" target="_blank">Goodbye Forever to Kleinliebental Near Odessa</a>”</blockquote>When the Soviet Union entered the Great Patriotic War in June 1941, it ordered all Germans living in Russia to be deported east. This order could not be carried out immediately because of the immediate and strong advance of the German Wehrmacht. Instead, German-Russian men between the ages 16 and 60 years of age were deported first out of fear they might be used as additional soldiers by the Wehrmacht (this was a valid concern as this did happen) and also because they could be used by the Soviets as cheap labor to support the wartime effort. Even Germans already serving in the Red Army were discharged and sent to the Trudar or labor army by the end of the year.<br /><blockquote>“All Volga Germans ages 15 to 60 were mobilized in June 1941 and enrolled in labor battalions, while their families were deported to the Kazakh SSR and the Far East. About 1,500 to 2,000 Volga Germans forming two labor battalions were at No. 12 Vetlag camp [these were camps near Vetluzhsky, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia —SSP] during 1942-1943.” <div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>From </span></span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82-00457R008500530012-1.pdf" target="_blank">CIA Information Report. September 1951</a></div></blockquote><h3 style="text-align: left;">1941 Deportation Timeline</h3><div>Leading up to the winter of 1941, the following deportations of the German population in the Soviet Union took place. Initially they were carried out under the guise as resettlements or evacuations in order to protect the German-Russians from the approaching war, but soon they became forced population movements—deportations. The Germans who had lived in Russia for generations were not trusted by the Soviets, considered “unreliable,” sympathetic to the enemy, and even spies. But they were still human assets that could be exploited by the Soviets by sending them to remote parts of the country, both to the east and to the far north. This was nothing new to Russia. It had been going on since the time of the tsars and continues today.<br /><br />According to Ulrich Mertens in his <i><a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/32028" target="_blank">German-Russian Handbook</a></i>, “by 25 December 1941, 894,600 Germans were said to have been deported. This number increased to 1,209,430 Germans by June 1942.” Below are the deportations he lists for 1941 by month and region. There was an incredible amount of population movement during this time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>July</b></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>—Crimea</b>: Between 4 July and 10 July 1941: The first mass deportation of German Russians was carried out here during WWII (approximately 35,000 German Russians until 20 August 1941; presumably altogether 65,000 German Russians). On 16/17 August 1941 (or after 20 August 1941): total forced migration, deportations to Ordzhonikidze [North Caucasus, former Tersk oblast] and the Rostov area; after the harvest (September - October 1941), approximately 50,000 people (together with German Russians from Ordzhonikidze) were deported to Kazakh SSR (in part Dzambul area).</div></blockquote><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>August</b></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><b>— Dniepropetrovsk</b> oblast: August to September 1941 (approximately 3,200 persons) were deported to the Altay region.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Karelo-Finnish SSR</b>: August 1941 deportation of Germans in to the Komi ASSR. [These Germans originated from the border areas of the Ukrainian SSR and had been deported in the early 1930s to the Karelo-Finnish SSR.]</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Odessa </b>oblast: August to September 1941 (approximately 6,000 persons (?) but perhaps also fewer): deportations to the Altay region.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— St. Petersburg</b>: Suburbs: August to September 1941: and only in part, deportations to Kazakhstan (Kyzyl-Orda, Qaraghandy, South Caucasus, Dzambul).</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>September</b></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Gorky</b> oblast [former Nizhni Novgorod province]: deportations to the Omsk and Pavlodar oblasts; 3,162 Germans on 14 September 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Karbadino-Balkar</b> [North Caucasus, former Tersk oblast]: September to October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Krasnodar </b>Krai [North Caucasus, former Krasnodar oblast]: September to October 1941: deportations to Dzambul oblast, in part to the Novosibirsk oblast; On 15 September 1941: 38,136 Germans. </div><b>— </b><b>Kuybychev</b><b> [</b>Samara] oblast: September to November 1941: deportations to Altay.</blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Moscow</b>, city and oblast: 15 September 1941: 9,640 Germans were deported to the Karaganda and Kyzyl-Orda oblasts.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— North Ossetia</b> [North Caucasus, former Tersk oblast]: September to October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Novgorod</b> oblast: September 1941: deportations to the Ivanovo oblast.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Ordzhonikidze</b> Krai [North Caucasus, former Stavropol Province]: September to October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan (together with approximately 50,000 Crimean Germans); 77,570 Germans on 20 September 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Rostov</b> oblast (together with approximately 2,000 <b>Crimean</b> Germans): September 1941: deportations to Altay Krai, Novosibirsk oblast, Dzambul oblast, Kyzyl- Orda oblast and South Kazakhstan oblast; 38,288 Germans from 10 to 20 September 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Russia, European</b>: Beginning to middle of September 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Stalino</b> oblast: September to October 1941: (only in part) deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Tula</b> oblast: September to October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan; 2,700 Germans on 21 September 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Volga German ASSR</b>: From 3 to 21 September 1941: The deportation of approximately 366,000 (or 373,200) Germans via 151 (230?) transports by train from 19 different train stations (duration of the trip was four to six weeks) occurred after the edict on deportation of 28 August 1941 (see chronological table). Deportations to the oblasts of Akmolinsk, Aktyubinsk, Alma-Ata, Altay Krai, Dzambul, Qaraghandy, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Kustanai, Kyzyl-Orda, North Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Semipalatinsk, South Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Voroshilovgrad</b> oblast: September to October 1941: (only in part) deportations to Kazakhstan. German Russians from recaptured areas of the Soviet Union.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Zaporizhzhya</b> oblast: September to October 1941: (only in part) deportations to Kazakhstan; 31,320 from 25 September to 10 October 1941.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Zaporizhzhya-Mariupol-Melitopol, tri-city area</b> : 28/29 September 1941: complete forced migration.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>October</b></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Armenia</b> [South Caucasus]: October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Azerbaijan</b> [South Caucasus]: mid-October 1941, together with Georgia, 25,000 Germans.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Caucasus</b>: deportations especially in October and November 1941; see also Crimea.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Chechnya</b> [North Caucasus, former Tersk oblast]: October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Dagestan</b> [North Caucasus, former Dagestan and Tersk oblasts]: October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Georgia</b> [South Caucasus]: mid-October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan (together with Azerbaijan, 25,000 Germans) by way of Baku and the Caspian Sea.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Industrial areas</b>: October to November 1941: deportations to agricultural regions within corresponding settlement areas from where no deportations were otherwise carried out.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Ingushetia</b> [North Caucasus, former Terse oblast]: October 1941: deportations to Kazakhstan.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Molotschna</b> (area of <b>Halbstadt</b>) [former Taurida Province]: 3 October 1941: 15,000 Germans were deported to Siberia.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Voronezh</b> oblast: October 1941: deportations to the Novosibirsk oblast.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>November</b></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>— Chita</b> oblast [former Transbaikal oblast], strips near the borders: November 1941: deportations to the interior of the district.</div></blockquote><p> </p><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: left;">About the Map</h3>Often when I read material about Germans from Russia, I refer to the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477965%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map</a> if places are mentioned in order to give me a sense of where the story was happening.<br /><br />Such was the case three years ago while looking for articles to include in the <a href="https://www.grhs.org/pages/home" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Heritage Society’s</a> publication <i><a href="https://www.grhs.org/pages/HeritageReview" target="_blank">Heritage Review</a></i>, I ran across one titled “Goodbye Forever Kleinliebental near Odessa” in the <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Heritage Collection</a>. It was originally in German (“Abschied für immer aus Kleinliebental bei Odessa”) and published by the <a href="https://lmdr.de/" target="_blank">Landsmannschaft Der Deutschen aus Russland</a> in their 2001/2002 <i>Heimatbuch</i>. Alex Herzog had translated it, and it was a part of the extensive article collection at GRHC. The pending October 2020 issue of the <i>Heritage Review</i> had other articles about Kleinliebental in it, and I thought it would be a good fit.<br /><br />As I was proofing it to comply with the Chicago Manual of Style, I took note of all the places mentioned. It included the names of train stations, villages that they passed through, places where they had heard bad things were happening, where they finally crossed the Volga River, which railway line they were on at one point, etc. I thought it would make an interesting story map. I set the story aside for a later project.<br /><br />Initially, I had planned to just include the places mentioned in the article, but in the years between when I originally read the article and just a couple of months ago, I decided that expanding it to show the bigger picture would be worth the effort. I ended up with four sections or layers on the map:<br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Farewell Forever Kleinliebental</li><li>Soviet Railways</li><li>Occupied Eastern Front</li><li>100 Places of Exile</li></ol>I recommend starting by <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/sites/default/files/image-directory/histories/Histories-Villages-GoodbyeKleinliebental.pdf" target="_blank">reading the article</a>. It’s short, only five pages long. Then take a look at the map to see the story laid out by location. See the places mentioned in the article, where they started out, where they traveled by train, where the war was closing in around them, and where Germans from Kleinliebental near Odessa were eventually exiled.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">1. Farewell Forever Kleinliebental</h4>The first layer contains all of the locations mentioned in the article "Abschied für immer aus Kleinliebental bei Odessa" (Farewell Forever from Kleinliebental near Odessa) in the order of their appearance.<br /><br />The over 40 locations mentioned and mapped on this layer include other German colonies, Jewish colonies, railway stops, rivers, towns and cities passed by while on the railroad, atrocities happening in nearby places, and areas with labor camps that were a part of the Gulag system.<br /><br />Part of the article appears to be a first person account by a younger person who refers to their father early in the story. Other parts seem to indicate a deeper knowledge of German-Russians in the Soviet Union, and at one point mentioning an obscure study of Jewish colonies, which I’ll explain more in a bit.<br /><br />There were some geographical problems with this story. Let me just start by addressing <b>the elephant on the map</b>. The story states that “the front had already reached the Dnieper River just north of us, and the sounds of war had been clearly audible for some time.” When the time came for them to be evacuated, they packed horse-drawn wagons and headed in the direction of “the railway station Haitchur, about 70 kilometers [about 44 miles] away.” What was expected to take 12 hours took two days.<br /><br />Haitchur was a railway station not near the city of Odessa but near the city of Zaporizhzhya across from the Dnieper River. Kleinliebental near Odessa was not south of or even near the Dnieper River.<br /><br />How then, I wondered, were the Germans villagers led by Soviet authorities from Kleinliebental just outside of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea to a specific railway stop in the Zaporizhia oblast…548 kilometers (340 miles) away… by wagon… in two days…through at least some occupied territory? Logically, they were not. The village mentioned in the story could not have been Kleinliebental bei Odessa, but Kleinliebental bei somewhere else. Where it was, I am not sure. There are at least two possibilities in the Nikolaev and Stalino oblasts, but neither comes close to the distance from them to the railway station mentioned in the article.<br /><br />Set aside the article title (most often in publishing the author of a story doesn’t write the headline) and the addition of the colony of Grossliebental to the list of villages they rode through (clearly added by someone other than the original author). The article should not be entirely discounted. It notes many historically accurate places to which Germans were deported in the 1940s. It also portrays the fear, uncertainty, and chaos experienced by the Germans as they were hauled, packed in freight cars, 5,466 kilometers (3,396 miles) to Western Siberia.<br /><br />As for the Jewish colonies, when they arrived in Haitchur, “There were families from the Kankrin Colonies numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6…”<br /><br />The Kankrin colonies were a subset of Jewish agricultural colonies established in the former Province of Ekaterinoslav that were the subject of a 1893 study by German-Russian Ivan V. Kankrin (1860-1917), <a href="https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/colonies_of_ukraine/Surveys_of_colonies_kankrin.html" target="_blank">“Еврейские земледельческие колонии Александровского уезда” (“Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the Aleksandrovsky District”)</a>. Kankrin was reportedly a critic of the Jewish agricultural colonies. He insisted that they never did much agriculture work but remained artisans instead. He studied the 10 colonies in depth, and (inadvertently, I am sure) contributed a great deal of information about the colonies that descendants are now discovering as his work is translated. The colonies were located between the German settlements of the Molotschna Mennonite Colony and the German settlements of the Mariupol enclave.<br /><br />They are not referred to anywhere else as “Kankrin colonies,” and I had to dig into the untranslated Russian-language study to even get the real names of each of them in order to locate them. The name Kankrin is not attached to any of them in Jewish genealogy.<br /><br />It is curious that the term “Kankrin colonies” is used in the article. It indicates either the original author, or other writer who augmented the article, knew of the study some 40 years prior to the deportation story. While there is no doubt that Germans knew of neighboring Jewish colonies, would they have known about this study? The Kankrin study is not, as far as I can tell, a well-known part of the Germans from Russia history, and it nor the colonies are not mentioned in the standard literature or gazetteers. Feels like <b>a plant next to the elephant on the map</b>.<br /><br />If you have read this far (come for the maps, stay for the words), you can see why I hesitated going forward with releasing the map. I still believe there is value in it, and it may tell more of the story of the deportation of the other German colonies in this area at the same time, those in the Molotschna, Chortitza, Prischib and Mariupol areas. There may be a little something for everyone in it.<br /><br />Is this layer accurate? I don’t know if I can judge it for accuracy beyond saying the story, as it was told, is mapped accurately.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">2. Soviet Railways</h4>This section of the map illustrates the railroad route the German deportees may have taken from the Gaichur (Haiture) railway station mentioned in the article. This station was east of the city of Zaporizhzhya, which had just been taken by the German Wehrmacht on October 3, 1941, the day after the Germans of Kleinliebental were rounded up to be “evacuated.” By October 8, 1941, both Melitopol to the southwest and Mariupol to the southeast were also taken by the Wehrmacht.<br /><br />There were several clues in the article that made it possible to determine which railway lines they took in order to trace their journey:<br /><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew where the frontline was at the time in early October in relation to the station where they were loaded onto freight cars., so I knew the directions they could not travel.</div><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew they crossed the Volga River near Kuibyshev/Samara, so they must have traveled north, and there were just a few places where they could have crossed the river.</div><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew the names of a few places they went through, which helped figure out which railway lines they traversed.</div><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew the name of one of the railway lines because it was included in the article.</div><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew where they left some freight cars behind, again helping to figure out on which lines they traveled.</div><div style="text-align: left;">— I knew where they ended up, the name of the train station and the village they were taken to after getting off the train.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Looking at a set of <a href="https://www.soldat.ru/files/4/10/137/" target="_blank">1943 Soviet railway maps</a>, I decided to work backwards from the destination station to the originating station simply because it was easier to get started and make progress going that direction. I marked up the maps, noted the connecting lines to the next map, and drew them on Google MyMaps line by line.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGy99uUDGnuPkbEhuyUREIDfLlzLo-S_3MgZKox7vXY1CvjKXiC3A9pGvwy_kB7V7dbusomxT_FwKExaBuUmh9mdkJQjL3hKsHL8Dr8BSDVO4qHi7BhZbmNHjNBNOHlXA9r7OvFxZMoY_tvTHjjS_5bBVSN9ko4h6o_NYyHt22RBg9fHsUq2jPoZnYhxT/s4977/markup%20Tashkent%20railway.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3298" data-original-width="4977" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGy99uUDGnuPkbEhuyUREIDfLlzLo-S_3MgZKox7vXY1CvjKXiC3A9pGvwy_kB7V7dbusomxT_FwKExaBuUmh9mdkJQjL3hKsHL8Dr8BSDVO4qHi7BhZbmNHjNBNOHlXA9r7OvFxZMoY_tvTHjjS_5bBVSN9ko4h6o_NYyHt22RBg9fHsUq2jPoZnYhxT/w640-h424/markup%20Tashkent%20railway.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Markup of the Tashkent railway map sheet showing connections to the Orenburg railway continuing to the northwest and the Turksib railway headed east. </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br />There is no evidence that they changed trains at any point when the railway lines changed. The line names were included to make it easier on me when drawing the lines on the map and also having them short enough so they did not get unwieldy. The railway lines show the real journey along current railroad tracks and not just a rough line from beginning to end. This is always a consideration when adding lines to Google MyMaps—the general route or the exact route. But in this case, there was no question that I wanted to show the actual journey as best I could. The bonus of doing this is that I was able to add up the distance. The length of the journey was approximately 5,466 kilometers (3,396 miles) and took 40 days, from October 5 through November 14.<br /><br />Is this layer entirely accurate? Parts of it, yes, absolutely. Other parts were my best guess given the information I had.<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">3. Occupied Eastern Front</h4>This section of the map shows cities in the Ukrainian SSR that were occupied in the region by October 1941. Each place has the name and the date it was taken by German or Romanian forces. I put these on the map when I was working on the first two sections to help me understand what was possible in terms of evacuation routes. At the end, I decided to leave them as a reminder of how close war was to the German colonies being evacuated and where it was already in full play.<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">4. 100 Places of Exile</h4>This section of the map is a compilation of 100 known locations to which residents of the colony of Kleinliebental near Odessa (again, not the Kleinlienbental in the article in the first section) were exiled/resettled/deported in the 1940s. It is unknown to me which railway stations or separation/filtration camps to which they were initially sent, but it shows how far and wide people were dispersed across not only the Far East, Siberia, and Central Asia, but also in central and northern European Russia. Approximately 500 people born between 1866 and 1937 were deported to over 100 places. I stopped at 100 for the sake of time spent on this project. <br /><br />The information in this section was compiled from translated MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) records obtained by both the <a href="https://www.glueckstal.net/" target="_blank">Glückstal Colonies Research Association</a> (see GCRA’s <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2300970409585045147/4768795498384496551#" target="_blank">“2021 Data Drive”</a> and by researcher Peter Goldade (see <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2300970409585045147/4768795498384496551#" target="_blank">“The Complete Works of Peter Goldade”</a> website. These two sources were used because they were in electronic format, which made it easy for me to extract just the information about Kleinliebental and compile and analyze the data fairly quickly.<br /><br />The GCRA data was more recently translated than the Goldade data, but it is notable that while there is some overlap between the two, the two sources are not identical. No dates were included in the translations, so it’s not known exactly when anyone was in these places other than sometime in the 1940s, during or after the war is unclear.<br /><br />Both sources focus on the German enclaves in the Soviet Odessa oblast (Glückstal, Beresan, Liebental, Kutschurgan with a few from Bessarabia and other areas) and include full names, patronymics, birth year, birth place, family groups, and location of exile. The family groups show something that I want to call out: families were not always deported to the same place together. They were separated. And this was on purpose.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00926A003200020005-1.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="2604" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7280388xpnQ_ju7d_HU18YkaAqC91vMtXc8R3yBvYlG2-z_5CaDKUiWV3Z_9uALv_jINCBgjBvKU3ImGtzyRjarNpT6YNxqBHzA-uj_PESk8GOfOLa354w8Psw-LaolaYQIwDozywW0-SpYqVzZsWRegDT2VKzEBduyO7PAlg14JxqFum9wpx_hDsSbx9=w640-h422" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00926A003200020005-1.pdf" target="_blank">CIA Information Report. Subject: Soviet Justice. May 1951.</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><blockquote>“The penalty of deportation is a carry-over from the times of the czar. By keeping this penalty the Soviet government had in mind not only the separation of criminal elements, those not giving a pledge of loyalty, and the scum opposing the political trend of the country, but also the colonizing of Siberia. Deportation is one way for untangling a difficult national problem. Siberia today presents a highly colorful mosaic of nationalities consisting of deported groups of ‘nationalists’ from the Ukraine, Poland, Orman, etc. There is also no shortage of Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, creating a veritable tower of Babel which isn’t threatening to the USSR since the NZVD forements unofficial race hatred and prejudices which conforms to the so unproletarian device: <i>divide et impera </i>[divide and rule].”</blockquote><p>The document continues on: </p><p></p><blockquote>”Materially speaking, the government benefits in two ways: it protects itself from unwanted classes and it profits through exploitation of these classes for necessary labor. Siberia as the Soviet Arctic, and the boundless expanses of Soviet Central Asia, hide within themselves a vast natural wealth and the only way for the government to avail itself of this wealth is to populate these areas. It is a well known fact that deportation does solve this problem completely...” </blockquote><p></p></div>Is this layer entirely accurate? Probably. The locations themselves are accurate. I fixed the coordinates on several of them from what was included in the source. As for who went where, I rely on the translations available. Neither source offered original-language images of the documents. Also, people from other villages in the same area of Odessa may have also been sent to some of these places. All of that will be reflected when these 100 places are fully documented and added to the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Itca5Nk8LTjDFNqa0yxh1IANHtSknWjI&usp=sharing " target="_blank">deportation locations map</a> and layer on the main <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477965%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank">German from Russia Settlement Locations map</a>.<br /><br />I need to be done with this map, and so I’m leaving it here. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since you made it to the end of this very long post, this map can be turned into a presentation if there is any interest. Also, if you are interested in learning how to create a story map like this using Google MyMaps, I have developed a workshop that will be available next year. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-23772748075891448982023-09-16T19:30:00.005-07:002023-10-03T14:13:29.710-07:00Last Presentation of 2023: Deportation Locations<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2pzy3wkE37CrfjnHy9sz1LxFnNAYtZL39CHPP4cYqOPJRH34Q26Eo8y59DXlmjzoPq4MpOZg5w3R_sYl1IuYCkhH0jP9KxtTYnjJGmQBUkgTXMBV7Maa9dngA4oekb5zjQvEV2czMnjaNSjayyQgeSiqf_VOuKPidNuYacBAObGzQJmWcoLe9RHNlfFX/s5910/Screenshot%202023-09-22%20at%201.04.05%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3156" data-original-width="5910" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2pzy3wkE37CrfjnHy9sz1LxFnNAYtZL39CHPP4cYqOPJRH34Q26Eo8y59DXlmjzoPq4MpOZg5w3R_sYl1IuYCkhH0jP9KxtTYnjJGmQBUkgTXMBV7Maa9dngA4oekb5zjQvEV2czMnjaNSjayyQgeSiqf_VOuKPidNuYacBAObGzQJmWcoLe9RHNlfFX/w640-h342/Screenshot%202023-09-22%20at%201.04.05%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My scratch map of places of deportation from the presentation. </td></tr></tbody></table>The last scheduled presentation of 2023 is now done. I did a deep dive into the research and sources used for the deportation locations layer of the map. It’s a difficult subject and no fun, but it’s a part of our history and needs to be included. Thanks to the Southern California Chapter of Germans from Russia for having me. <p></p><p>Shown above is my private practice/research map. This is map on which I make notes about what I have found and what various sources indicate as places of deportation. The yellow shade is roughly the area of Asiatic Russia under the U.S.S.R. Interestingly, there are a lot of pins (i.e. places of deportation in European Russia. Not all places of deportation were to “Siberia.” More to come on who went where, when, and for how long as research progresses. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p><br /></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-46815753688669422272023-08-31T15:49:00.003-07:002023-08-31T16:05:28.420-07:00Machines Reading Maps Tool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?search=SUBMIT&cat=0&q=Gl%C3%BCckstal&dateRangeStart=&dateRangeEnd=&sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_list_no%2Cseries_no&annotSearch=annotSearch" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="1334" height="62" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgU_TgJzjfnU9KAE9gbuja-XnT0LJ2ZaTGpvfwv204fWirokjJxbye6RIDa9AKNubI5s3cDHcD_WYgAkg7LajVztF45h0FaeV0x1gcgo5Ll5CS9C-NWVJY4P3VhGaz_RsZMTWFYhFswJeuvODB7Al37W1YeeYOxYnd9zBOVwUFt36swASTg9h3Z1F0owd_/w640-h62/Gluckstal.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>A fun new tool from the <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/" target="_blank">David Rumsey Map Collection</a> was released yesterday: Machines Reading Maps. It presents an interesting new way to search for our ancestral colonies on historical maps within the David Rumsey collection. </p><p>If you have seen my presentation “Time Travel Using Historical Maps,”* you may recall that I showed how to search the David Rumsey Map Collection using a tool called <a href="https://rumsey.mapranksearch.com/" target="_blank">MapRankSearch</a>. In it, we search the entire collection for a current place name (or something near a colony that no longer exists) and were presented with maps showing that location. And then we searched by coordinates to find it on the map results. Now you can search David Rumsey using a new tool, Machines Reading Maps which <b>searches for the text that actually appears on the maps</b>. </p><p>It was only a matter of time before this happened. If you are familiar with live-text on Mac OS—where any text in a screenshot is clickable, copyable, and links are live—it’s the same idea. The DR team sent their computers off to scrape up all the words it can find on maps in their collection and made them searchable. It’s a cool new way to search for places. You can contribute as well. The link to the tool guide is <a href="https://machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p>Caveat (of course): As a researcher, <b>you still need to evaluate every map</b> from the search results to make sure it is the location you’re looking for and not another location with the same name. Remember that it is only searching for a name without any other context. Some unique German colony names yield pretty good results. But we all know Germans like to reuse place names wherever they go. For colony names that are common, like my ever-favorite example of Neudorf, you are better off using MapRankSearch, unless you just want a cool graphic with a lot of Neudorfs on it (see below). While it picks up and deals with some special characters, like umlauts, it does not pick up spelling variations. So, you will need to do searches for each spelling variation or name of a place if it had multiple names over time. For example, searching for Strassburg will yield different results than Strasburg and different still from Strasbourg. If you are a <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1gquNCuSx7pTVnHg3RNm39oknHZk&ll=46.91780450763943%2C30.279400000000003&z=9" target="_blank">Kutschurgan</a> Strassburger, you know very well that these are the spellings of three different places in different countries of your (and my) ancestors. But...they may be spelled “incorrectly” on a map. A French map of the Russian Empire, for example, may use the French spelling instead of the German spelling. Also, historically, there are many creative spellings used on maps. </p><p>There are more accurate ways of searching for your ancestral colonies on historical maps (God forbid what’s going to start showing up on Facebook now) and more relevant map collections to the German colonies in Russia, but this one admittedly is tons of fun and I invite you to while away your Labor Day weekend playing with this. </p><p>Here are some examples. Click on the collection image below to run the search on David Rumsey, or go directly to the <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and start searching. You never know what you might find. </p><p><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?search=SUBMIT&cat=0&q=Stary+Krym&dateRangeStart=&dateRangeEnd=&sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_list_no%2Cseries_no&annotSearch=annotSearch" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="1546" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91D4hy4gKgdnPtfHthG2TNXDbshKcXG5sKRlaRtnKGO4pOMIz6uZqpzQGSwZbZg8vCoDjZQkSvj0HOHTCL7kiccN8S_3S4R8saIS9OHhNml30J0REwQsy5-Y5lin_7kM5tpObmE__O_2T7XiY26C3bGHBpKeow8kRBBaIyWsVAjRYvnE4vWEkiwJHuit-/w640-h136/Staryy%20Krym.png" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?search=SUBMIT&cat=0&q=Dobrinka&dateRangeStart=&dateRangeEnd=&sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_list_no%2Cseries_no&annotSearch=annotSearch" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="2862" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYC_5e3ytMg_ESXcySY4OYlQUNW2MlOqZiF51c685jTbVqHL3MxMQ8h1OynXcO4KvV1GoRJlJSZcA3-nZoYJgC23Tq52xUt7nMWyPjuhfR2p5_QU161FAl4eTI0uBMo4LAj35gD3lAcaO_kdhBJYK0dyhih2hwcYowD1m3AH78qZhszQTkKHDEJr9j0EH/w640-h198/Sandy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-29948053242650056162023-08-13T17:16:00.001-07:002023-08-28T16:00:54.742-07:00The Wall Breaker: Dark Histories & Sad Truths<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Note: Unfortunately, this conference has been cancelled. There were not enough registrants to make it viable this year.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZiGz4qAc2OMZHv_4dLNtT7ZT7DiRV_sZl6afSAjCNH1BCzqsleyg7IXJilUqIhEI3c2O74VEgsh-FsSaM_9dmNSS0BGq2DE-2Qfs8RSfC3uMfqTnh-8C6YF6UcgKWwkkp501VEhw3r2fKFyFxAU4x8vZ4P84rC-xKXOJcHa5WBZJuvMadnT1NxXRMlEvB" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="2549" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZiGz4qAc2OMZHv_4dLNtT7ZT7DiRV_sZl6afSAjCNH1BCzqsleyg7IXJilUqIhEI3c2O74VEgsh-FsSaM_9dmNSS0BGq2DE-2Qfs8RSfC3uMfqTnh-8C6YF6UcgKWwkkp501VEhw3r2fKFyFxAU4x8vZ4P84rC-xKXOJcHa5WBZJuvMadnT1NxXRMlEvB=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></h3><p style="text-align: left;">The annual <a href="https://www.wall-breaker.com/wall-breaker-conference" target="_blank">Wall Breaker Conference</a> organized and hosted by Robyn Morales is always a must-attend. Going on its fifth year, it has really come into its own, taking its place among the well-known conferences hosted by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia and the Germans from Russia Heritage Society. Without the formality and pomp and circumstance, the Wall Breaker is like a days-long conversation with friends. It’s 100% virtual, relaxed, and always has topics that you don’t find in other German-Russian conferences. Robyn has a way of convincing the most interesting people to share what they know and start the conversations. And, the best part, the days are packed with topics. I'm talking 21 presentations over three days. There is no better deal out there for $75 CAD. You can register <a href="https://www.wall-breaker.com/wall-breaker-conference" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The final line up has been posted, and it is a good one!</p><p style="text-align: left;"> Friday, September 8, 2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Murder at the South Dakota State Archives</i><b> </b> —Matthew T. Reitzel</li><li><i>In the Trenches - Searching Digitized First World War Records at Library and Archives Canada</i> —Marie-Eve Robert</li><li><i>Orphan Train Records</i><b> </b>—Kaily Carson</li><li><i>Breaking Down Brick Walls – The GPS Approach</i> —Janice Nickerson .</li><li><i>Tales That Auntie Told Us: Family Lore & How to Deal with It</i> —John Althouse</li><li><i>Quarantined! – Genealogy, the Law and Public Health</i> —Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL</li><li><i>Resource Reviews </i> —Robyn Morales</li></ul>Saturday, Sept 9, 2023<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Death Demystified (North America)</i> —Robyn Morales</li><li><i>Where the Murderers Roam</i> —Daniel Hubbard</li><li><i>Stalin's Arrest Files</i> —Dave Obee</li><li><i>Where There Is – or Isn’t – a Will</i> —Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL</li><li><i>How Old Did He Have To Be…?</i> —Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL</li><li><i>“Death by Undue Means” – Coroner’s Records</i> —Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL</li><li><i>Criminal Cases Locally</i> —Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A.</li></ul>Sunday, September 10, 2023<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>“May The Universe Be Your Home!” a graphic novel about the GR community in Kazakhstan</i> —Lena Wolf</li><li><i>Breaking the Walls of Time and Distance by Visiting Ancestral Villages in Germany and Russia</i> —Dr. Mila Koretnikov</li><li><i>Crimean War </i> —Merv Weiss</li><li><i>ABC … 123 … EWZ! Using Einwanderungszentralstelle Records</i> —Carolyn Schott</li><li><i>Church Records – Broken Faiths</i> —Reuben Bauer</li><li><i>Genocide through Forced Labor: The Case of the Russian Germans in the Labor Army —</i>Otto Pohl </li></ul><div>Hope to you there!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-30048079066755935252023-07-31T18:00:00.002-07:002023-07-31T18:00:52.250-07:00Video: Intro & Map Tutorial<p>After seven years, I’ve finally recorded a new video with an overview of project and a new map tutorial. Been so busy mapping, I didn’t realize how old it was. Anyway, all new video for the current map. </p><p>Enjoy!</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pflYeNnAGHY?si=-Kb0RQKg3BKmjf01" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-63961203280505370422023-06-28T14:32:00.002-07:002023-06-28T14:55:29.584-07:00Asiatic Russia Map Updates Posted<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477936%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="2382" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sCTHPUV9QeX70ZP9Wpbtp4ZwkMoaqjMWH3uwhNqEd-mrK0W5QLlsBRd7enqGmA-2TG7JK1iGUamXAA64ByfC412sWXa2UEk88cdKttWQtXJ4dQF6uA2oPb-VemTRLbg3zrRQsfPYqN5VQL4xGQgvpdBb3FD_pltPFE80T5C6ME5SXSL2dH2RatLAu5w9/w640-h212/map%20as%20of%2020230628.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477936%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map as of 28 June 2023.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&ll=54.304164732477936%2C82.04992187500012&z=3" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map</a> has been updated. This was a particularly long research cycle from end of January through June with a lot of moving parts. That, along with giving 5 presentations, going to 7 (!) dentist appointments, and 2 trips to the vet — oh, how life tries to thwart research sometimes — I still made it by my own self-imposed deadline. I am pleased to announce that all of the settlements on the map are now in their former imperial provinces. The grouping of settlements into “colony groups” has been sunsetted completely. It simply became untenable as more settlements were found that just did not fit into that way of thinking. It also gathers up and gives a home to all of those “scattered settlements” that had been ignored in the past or grouped in whatever colony group that was closest. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">What’s New?</h3><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>— Asiatic Russia has been split into three regions: 1) <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1HPbLb7-kv_-3LAEfZNnyZSVnzugA2sk&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Russian Far East, Siberia, and Steppes Krai</a>; 2) <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1POMNCQtqZuOx2FIs6S1AMPYD5agCh0M&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Russian Turkestan</a>; and 3) <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1mwIqQpG-BD7SMfhaZQF_h8Q43K3hHvs&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Caucasus Viceroyalty</a>. Like all the other regions on the map, each of the new regions was split into the provinces/gubernias or regions/oblasts as they were in roughly 1914, toward the end of the Imperial Russian Empire. Within each province/region, each settlement indicates what district/county/uzeyd it was a part of at the time. Period georeferenced maps were used to accomplish this. Yes, I know. I'm still mixing English and Russian names for these administrative jurisdictions. I will straighten them all out eventually. </p><p>— In total, 33 new provinces/oblasts were added. A reminder: these are historical and do not equate to the area of similarly named oblasts today. If no Germans were found in a province, it is not include on the map. A few small provinces or ones created very late are grouped on the map with their previous province but are still listed as their own province. </p><p>— Although the goal of this research cycle was not about adding locations, 372 new settlements were added anyway. As long as I was visiting the neighborhoods, I figured I might as well pick up some windfall. </p><p>— Twenty-eight new sources were added. Most of these were historical maps to which you can find links on the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/sources.html" target="_blank">Sources</a> page. </p><p>— The layers on the map have been renamed to include whether they were in European Russia or Asiatic Russia. They have also been reordered to those with denser German populations toward the top, which improves how searches of the map perform. Searches start at the top layer and go down. It is still a bit unruly to search the big map, but this does help. </p><p>— On the same lines of improving search performance and rendering of the map on slower connections, I have removed the place names next to the pins on the big map. All of the other smaller maps regional, province, and enclave maps will continue to have the place names appear next to the pin. I have wrestled back and forth on this one but decided this was the best way to go given the number of pins on the big map and knowing how many more are coming. </p><p style="text-align: left;">— The former German settlements in modern-day Ukraine that are in occupied territory as a part of the Russo-Ukrainian war have been updated. Thanks to David Batashvili of the <a href="https://gfsis.org.ge/" target="_blank">Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Rondeli Foundation)</a> for his meticulous tracking of the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lscRK6ehG0l2V-XvJ16nsyblMsQ&hl=en_US&ll=48.887885174139136%2C38.33200632578138&z=12" target="_blank">front lines</a> in a format compatible with my own map. </p><p style="text-align: left;">— I will be reworking the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/maps.html" target="_blank">Maps</a> page into an atlas. As it is, the page is very outdated. Moving all the maps into an atlas will be a good final destination for all of this work. Some have seen the prototype in my presentations over the past year. </p><p style="text-align: left;">— Lastly, I have removed the layer with the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fOGEYqQY6ga8W9MJXisies5L8uk&usp=sharing" target="_blank">Austro-Hungarian villages</a> in the Galizien, Bukovina, and Batschka regions. I knew the day would come, and today is the day. The focus of the map needs to be 100% on the German settlements in the former Russian Empire. But, good news! There has always been a seperate map with those villages on them. You can still (and always) get to them <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fOGEYqQY6ga8W9MJXisies5L8uk&usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">That’s it for now. I’ll be taking a research break for a few months. More to come later this year. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-75175596566973437182023-06-10T12:55:00.016-07:002023-06-10T13:03:32.336-07:00Caucasus Viceroyalty <p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces is complete! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The last of the work in the Caucasus region was completed on Thursday morning. This area includes the modern-day countries of </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.8px;">Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Türkiye. This time, 133 places were added and all were split into 13 provinces. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The First Imperial Census of 1897 described a total of 56,729 native German speakers at the time living in the Caucasus region, amounting to .61% of the total population. Broken down into provinces, the distribution of native German speakers in the Caucasus region looked like this in 1897: Baku (3,430), Batum (369), Dagestan (261), Elizavetpol (3,191), Erivan (210), Kars (430), Kuban (20,778), Kutaisi (1,065), Stavropol (8,601), Sukhum (406), Terek (9,672) and Tiflis (8,340). The Black Sea Province (not to be mistaken for the much larger Black Sea Region) also had 748 Germans. Prior to 1896, it was a district in the Kuban province. It is grouped with Kuban on the map, but it is still listed as its own province. Same goes for Zakatala okrug, which was a part of Tiflis province until 1903. There were no German settlements in that very small area, but there were 11 Germans reportedly living in the city of </span>Zakatala at the time of the census<span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.8px;">There is a wealth of good maps available for this area, both military and road maps. It makes sense given the proximity to both the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea, the ports of which make it desirable for commerce and often conflict. It was nice to work with georeferenced maps with clearly marked boundaries for a change. Here are two examples. </span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCT8cNZbOdQ652NF3Bn6ydWM86i72NVjvgbzmQA_z_DP7lQl2OErUg_TZQGhMhMEyObb3BWAJwbojTsJmDVEUFmC2HspLmtLq-lLNotguDLlHXnI7h-0cnOp49hZlsZx7NwJ-nCRlXei_YyrgqCNn-xWZxY_ncBFczaYLnCvf08TSpZKaM9rLZ0E4mvQ/s4928/1868kavkaz%20(Caucasus).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4063" data-original-width="4928" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCT8cNZbOdQ652NF3Bn6ydWM86i72NVjvgbzmQA_z_DP7lQl2OErUg_TZQGhMhMEyObb3BWAJwbojTsJmDVEUFmC2HspLmtLq-lLNotguDLlHXnI7h-0cnOp49hZlsZx7NwJ-nCRlXei_YyrgqCNn-xWZxY_ncBFczaYLnCvf08TSpZKaM9rLZ0E4mvQ/w640-h528/1868kavkaz%20(Caucasus).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Map of the Caucasus Region from the the Imperial Geographical Society.” 1868. Repository: <a href="http://www.etomesto.ru/map/base/23/1868kavkaz.jpg" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyEovYmgQ9mXrdfyzCQLh9L7liXXkZoQdfXawKEV7dcne9B0H9Zwg2E_n-LUM53iIbAqTlMC7qB08K-iu8gUZYJWdpWjhtsg6JZokArrCzvDwD3Cdy0C2XOy70PJah5Kc00TH6GwEVNMscyc8ky9365RXFqX5SKRgAAMMuACoWahwI3J_Tp2o-MkMZQ/s5163/kavkaz-1910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4735" data-original-width="5163" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyEovYmgQ9mXrdfyzCQLh9L7liXXkZoQdfXawKEV7dcne9B0H9Zwg2E_n-LUM53iIbAqTlMC7qB08K-iu8gUZYJWdpWjhtsg6JZokArrCzvDwD3Cdy0C2XOy70PJah5Kc00TH6GwEVNMscyc8ky9365RXFqX5SKRgAAMMuACoWahwI3J_Tp2o-MkMZQ/w640-h586/kavkaz-1910.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“American Map of the Caucasus 1910” Repository: <a href="http://www.etomesto.ru/map/base/23/kavkaz-1910.jpg" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a> This map, while simple and not highly detailed, is accurate and in English. It’s always a relief to find something that doesn’t need translating.</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span>While researching this region, I found several <i>Kavkazskiy Kalendar</i>s (Caucasian Calendars) from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. These are akin to the other calendar publications seen in South Russia published in Odessa and Bessarabia that were sort of a farmer’s almanac. I have previously posted some maps found in those calendars, railroad maps in particular. The <i>Kavkazskiy Kalendar</i>s were published in Tiflis, are not agrarian focused, but they do have maps. Below are three that show the regions of artisanal trades, the metal production, and the wool industry. They are in both Russian and French. Maps like this are interesting in that they show what industries was going on where our German ancestors lived, what types of occupations they may have had (locksmiths, blacksmiths, gold or silversmiths, tanners, weavers), or even what work drew them to a particular area. </div><div><br /></div><div>The repository for the maps below are the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, <a href="https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/3656" target="_blank">1900 edition for 1901</a>. </div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOCBjVwhQX0RZ01uVG2_8jvEz7S9mlC0d7TyG3zlx_fJiuD3JmITCPcstg8ZWbCbRap8HLgF9bJ22Fjhf7XDrN5bhWZkLSXQSnJKn0hMt8JcufZqxc4UmlzLsCs8YLI-pPpVDi5Kbj0XG717RPrfBIbPtSEsMIsMyildXEHPV72Y58sO2QfMXrd39Ekw/s3956/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20213%20-%20artisianal%20trades%20map.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="3956" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOCBjVwhQX0RZ01uVG2_8jvEz7S9mlC0d7TyG3zlx_fJiuD3JmITCPcstg8ZWbCbRap8HLgF9bJ22Fjhf7XDrN5bhWZkLSXQSnJKn0hMt8JcufZqxc4UmlzLsCs8YLI-pPpVDi5Kbj0XG717RPrfBIbPtSEsMIsMyildXEHPV72Y58sO2QfMXrd39Ekw/w640-h430/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20213%20-%20artisianal%20trades%20map.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Map of the Caucasus: Cottage Industries and Artisanal Crafts”</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZb07Gj9tTXV-H_sLq6T2WqTAkpDGRgsEc1mZx_BPf7WIWOnA0JJOnKA3Pitk46JZgWEwFxg0y50NibOZyInzbdyizIBTDOtlybWWGwxUsyOfsHHCD_owfse67lj-RfVzQG3Ey8DEYEeEkZKqxIsPQJPcjWqWBWSHgTKi91Cq2CkR3L_uo7V2Cp2LVg/s4240/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20245%20-%20wool%20industry.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2830" data-original-width="4240" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdZb07Gj9tTXV-H_sLq6T2WqTAkpDGRgsEc1mZx_BPf7WIWOnA0JJOnKA3Pitk46JZgWEwFxg0y50NibOZyInzbdyizIBTDOtlybWWGwxUsyOfsHHCD_owfse67lj-RfVzQG3Ey8DEYEeEkZKqxIsPQJPcjWqWBWSHgTKi91Cq2CkR3L_uo7V2Cp2LVg/w640-h428/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20245%20-%20wool%20industry.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Map of the Caucasus: Wool Industry”<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiGCajSozKmxQbEUuOy3q4TdOmDs4gdWFT2pJj8VsR52yfFq4KZDtDlD-4G5S0D48JLLPxI-fp3CuEcH70JSSMsm-oLDca2EImEfoYeSihGkPocgZJZV8EhnJCKI7hlkR57mYtfly2yPZ0wLX7hQd5eABzk97zQ6u_8cgrE07B2tsxIpdRYzzyTLUELA/s4050/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20237%20-%20metal%20industry.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2780" data-original-width="4050" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiGCajSozKmxQbEUuOy3q4TdOmDs4gdWFT2pJj8VsR52yfFq4KZDtDlD-4G5S0D48JLLPxI-fp3CuEcH70JSSMsm-oLDca2EImEfoYeSihGkPocgZJZV8EhnJCKI7hlkR57mYtfly2yPZ0wLX7hQd5eABzk97zQ6u_8cgrE07B2tsxIpdRYzzyTLUELA/w640-h440/1900%20Kavkas%20Cal%20image%20237%20-%20metal%20industry.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Map of the Caucasus: Wrought Metal Production”</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;">• • • • •</div><p>I have to update the sources and do some tidying up of the data before I can post it to the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map. Everything should be up over the next couple of weeks. I am looking forward to sharing the last five months’ worth of research very soon. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbiAgNdVjJjsHZwzpTkeF4-0CRgPB-dbLmyXAWLTzmlg0-C_BQ6FzPnPRgAdHgf-R1cg_6N6SEyovrsE4X9Lm9oGtkj3qhpbKX1ozOqYdeK5Su_yUpEyY_y1o_iMzX3jPQSMglW_cXHBVTkuE_A9NsIw2no63O9wF0Um3b-C5S7zvG6LyutTpvsDCsQ/s2342/Screenshot%202023-06-09%20at%207.22.21%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="2342" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbiAgNdVjJjsHZwzpTkeF4-0CRgPB-dbLmyXAWLTzmlg0-C_BQ6FzPnPRgAdHgf-R1cg_6N6SEyovrsE4X9Lm9oGtkj3qhpbKX1ozOqYdeK5Su_yUpEyY_y1o_iMzX3jPQSMglW_cXHBVTkuE_A9NsIw2no63O9wF0Um3b-C5S7zvG6LyutTpvsDCsQ/w640-h298/Screenshot%202023-06-09%20at%207.22.21%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-37030764103609559352023-05-31T12:57:00.001-07:002023-05-31T12:57:54.554-07:00End of May Update<h3 style="text-align: left;">Almost there! </h3><p>The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces is near the end. All that is left in the Caucasus are the provinces of Stavropol and Terek. The pins in yellow and orange are left to do. Those in shades of red are complete. So far, 89 more locations have been added, covering the western part of the North Caucasus (Russia) and the South Caucasus (Armenia, Türkiye, Georgia and Azerbaijan). </p><p>Still on target for a mid-late June map update. This is what it looks like as of yesterday. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdlKqGZR8dd_PA8kzf5kZ2YrHIGWHIyqfgMsGamZHQA2V7ntaTJutljFOi_xq6nugeRMinfYYmGRiiCHVnTGqOTka3DtZsL2hES3zqt4X7iC4efCjkucHd-iT7mpMFCq9-9umdaSwq3UEt9Lwebvj_H0qzQx9-Ftwd8Vng2NsyFG0Fgkn7w4YumLQFQ/s2244/Caucasus%20as%20of%2030%20May%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="2244" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdlKqGZR8dd_PA8kzf5kZ2YrHIGWHIyqfgMsGamZHQA2V7ntaTJutljFOi_xq6nugeRMinfYYmGRiiCHVnTGqOTka3DtZsL2hES3zqt4X7iC4efCjkucHd-iT7mpMFCq9-9umdaSwq3UEt9Lwebvj_H0qzQx9-Ftwd8Vng2NsyFG0Fgkn7w4YumLQFQ/w640-h306/Caucasus%20as%20of%2030%20May%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Upcoming Conferences and Presentations</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I will be presenting virtually and on-demand for GRHS and FEEFHS respectively. And in August, I will be attending AHSGR in Greeley, CO. </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;">_________________________</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention (Virtual), Saturday, July 22</h4><blockquote><p><b>Time Travel Using Historical Maps:</b> Wander through time and explore your ancestral villages on geolocated maps. In the past decade, efforts have been made to scan and georeference historical maps that have been sitting in archives for hundreds of years. You will learn how to use information from the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map to travel back in time and find your ancestral colonies on period maps using their GPS coordinates. You will learn where to find repositories of detailed maps online, how to overcome language issues with technology, and how to capture images and cite your findings. </p><p>The geographical focus of the presentation will be on <b>historical provinces of South Russia (the Black Sea region)</b> of the Russian Empire.</p><p>As some of you know, when I do this presentation for chapters, I customize it by using colonies suggested by members. If you're going to be at this presentation either in person in Mandan, ND, or virtually, let me know what colonies you would like to see. </p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.grhs.org/pages/Conventions" target="_blank">Learn more and register here.</a> </p><p></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">_________________________</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">Foundation of East European Family Studies Conference (On-Demand), August 1–4</h4><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><b>Germans from Russia Settlement Locations Project:</b> It started with the same questions we’ve all had. Where was my ancestor’s village? Does it still exist? What is it called today? Was it far from other villages? Is it still in Russia? How do I find it on these old maps? Where is it on today’s map? This presentation introduces the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations project, a geographic genealogy tool built using Google MyMaps that plots the locations of German colonies across the Imperial Russian Empire. We’ll review the history of the project and the research methods, tour the map, and discuss what’s coming next.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><b>Time Travel Using Historical Maps:</b> Wander through time and explore your ancestral villages on geolocated maps. In the past decade, efforts have been made to scan and georeference historical maps that have been sitting in archives for hundreds of years. You will learn how to use information from the Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map to travel back in time and find your ancestral colonies on period maps using their GPS coordinates. You will learn where to find repositories of detailed maps online, how to overcome language issues with technology, and how to capture images and cite your findings. </p><p>The geographical focus of the presentation will be on historical provinces of the <b>European part of the Russian Empire</b>.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://feefhs.org/index.php/conference-2023-info" target="_blank">Learn more and register here.</a> </p><p>And so, a busy May ends as a busy June begins. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-36317100797760761102023-05-05T10:40:00.050-07:002023-05-05T11:00:07.628-07:00Russian Turkestan<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFT_MRkrLynL8mGOXwIYDYHMbxoOWGo8jpw6KaL-CpasDilcFzK_0mflHFnzPWFwlaViHpUHrZkBCAVz7-ZX7IUIiXcyeWdoznXFVjqZjwjK6FDciKTo5f3N5kkjC0-OV6lGrRDERgXRLVAeQA1hyuFNNZDlzQtrtJRAtt7Saf7TXDNZRuNWWsFShuzw/s10000/%5BTranscaspia%5D%20zakaspiyskaya-obl-1900.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="9907" data-original-width="10000" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFT_MRkrLynL8mGOXwIYDYHMbxoOWGo8jpw6KaL-CpasDilcFzK_0mflHFnzPWFwlaViHpUHrZkBCAVz7-ZX7IUIiXcyeWdoznXFVjqZjwjK6FDciKTo5f3N5kkjC0-OV6lGrRDERgXRLVAeQA1hyuFNNZDlzQtrtJRAtt7Saf7TXDNZRuNWWsFShuzw/w640-h634/%5BTranscaspia%5D%20zakaspiyskaya-obl-1900.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1900 Geological Map of the Caspian Region. Germans lived in the areas marked in blue, which followed the Transcaspian Railway and today border Iran and Afghanistan. To see the non-marked up map, click on the source link. Source: <a href="http://www.etomesto.ru/map/base/103/zakaspiyskaya-obl-1900.jpg" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces continues. All of Russian Turkestan is done. This area includes the modern-day countries include Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twenty-nine colonies were added, bringing the total for this area to 53. It was not a big German settlement area, and it was only open for a short time, roughly 1880 to 1910. During WWII, there were some deportations to this area and later resettlements. Those will be reflected under the Deportations section on the map in the future. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The First Imperial Census of 1897 described a total of 3,722 native German speakers at the time living in the oblasts of Fergana (369), Samarkand (440), Syr-Darya (1,887), and Transcaspia (1,026). There were none reported in Semirechenskaya at that point. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzxh64IKE_qsFYayOffZmkC6pjigpc83a-E09rl7w4VpTbmr234Mu6zhj-YxJICuaIcb1dx3mkN-NGLyYNwbgABcmvYrzR4rDs_tubfOWea9UPnBoZGLFx9x3-9cNozYYmDw4FHCrR7bcrGmY9qOCSEMfwr5ioKT6JWqLLP0fGkLsRXNjKrMrP1Q-jA/s5220/markup%20syr-darynskiy-rayon-1914.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5220" data-original-width="4350" height="724" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzxh64IKE_qsFYayOffZmkC6pjigpc83a-E09rl7w4VpTbmr234Mu6zhj-YxJICuaIcb1dx3mkN-NGLyYNwbgABcmvYrzR4rDs_tubfOWea9UPnBoZGLFx9x3-9cNozYYmDw4FHCrR7bcrGmY9qOCSEMfwr5ioKT6JWqLLP0fGkLsRXNjKrMrP1Q-jA/w604-h724/markup%20syr-darynskiy-rayon-1914.jpg" width="604" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of the Syr-Darya Resettlement District from 1914. Most of the Germans in Russian Turkestan lived in these three oblasts, the districts of which I marked up and color coded: Syr-Darya (<span style="color: #2b00fe;">blue</span>), Samarkand (<span style="color: red;">red</span>), Fergana (<span style="color: #38761d;">green</span>). Source: <a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map/base/103/syr-darynskiy-rayon-1914.jpg " target="_blank">EtoMesto</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The census also did not include German populations in the protectorates of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva. But we know that Molotschna (Taurida) and Am-Trakt (Samara) Mennonites had settlements in those two Russian protected states, the result of the Great Mennonite Trek 1880–1884 for the End of Times. There is much about this topic out there. I recommend the very engaging book <i><a href="https://worldcat.org/en/title/501976916" target="_blank">Pilgrims on the Silk Road: A Muslim-Christian Encounter in Khiva</a></i> by Walter Ratliff. He is an Associated Press journalist, historian, and descendant of those original Mennonite pilgrims who were on the trek. He along with a group of other descendants recreated the trek in 2007. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As for other German origins, there were few specifics. Along with the Molotschna (Taurida) and Am-Trakt (Samara) Mennonites, there were Germans from or somehow connected to the village of Frank (Saratov), Hussenbach (Saratov), Warenburg (Samara), Romanowka (Akmola), and Druzhba (Semirechenskaya), There were also reported Germans who came from the provinces of Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, Orenburg, Poltava, Samara, Saratov, Volhynia, Voronezh, and the Don Host. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not a live map, but this is what the new research so far will look like when it gets posted. Click on it see a larger view. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSlCT0ezSyMUJ9bLaEEfIKRN7bFi6EKi8ioCrtdgTfiMousG_jwZHiy5zgl3yJdctnQ0z5LMwEyuBE5FB_XkZVqt8gk3uLLolLvQeRGoWwWZfVWDZL8uxnpQbvP5s8y-CyUguyijI-AcLdpJmKKsAEjWwkpn6hDkCexpIQTZlHc_cOwe7IorwW09LQw/s3272/Asiatic%20Russia%20preview%20(Siberia%20&%20Turkestan).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1356" data-original-width="3272" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkSlCT0ezSyMUJ9bLaEEfIKRN7bFi6EKi8ioCrtdgTfiMousG_jwZHiy5zgl3yJdctnQ0z5LMwEyuBE5FB_XkZVqt8gk3uLLolLvQeRGoWwWZfVWDZL8uxnpQbvP5s8y-CyUguyijI-AcLdpJmKKsAEjWwkpn6hDkCexpIQTZlHc_cOwe7IorwW09LQw/w667-h277/Asiatic%20Russia%20preview%20(Siberia%20&%20Turkestan).png" width="667" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next up is the Caucasus region, which will cover parts of modern-day Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Türkiye. I am looking forward to relaxing in the sun on the back patio this weekend as I start collecting maps and queuing up the data for the last leg of this research stint. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a few other deadlines this month for upcoming convention presentations this summer. Given that I want to present new parts of the map in these presentations, I am highly motivated to meet my self-imposed deadline of posting the data before convention season starts. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-53800226319758640532023-04-21T16:35:00.002-07:002023-04-21T16:41:15.972-07:00Steppes Krai: Semipalatinsk, Turgai, Ural Oblasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCDzOCAoOI1zg2shHhnkA6NjzaI-Ust2e4ryZy4z8AW6lRudF6kZ1ZLdlbgF8w1tXt9qvggv8sIOm4QTMN6L6V-w9LcUUChfMJWvHsyCxWEGTRdLo2sGVUjA8XkeDSo8G_ysObbm0E7Fhy2uCKFi5x7lumzJA972cFQblp7Me3cYjwz62SPGdoLXxGQ/s4341/uralsk-obl-1912.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2830" data-original-width="4341" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCDzOCAoOI1zg2shHhnkA6NjzaI-Ust2e4ryZy4z8AW6lRudF6kZ1ZLdlbgF8w1tXt9qvggv8sIOm4QTMN6L6V-w9LcUUChfMJWvHsyCxWEGTRdLo2sGVUjA8XkeDSo8G_ysObbm0E7Fhy2uCKFi5x7lumzJA972cFQblp7Me3cYjwz62SPGdoLXxGQ/w640-h418/uralsk-obl-1912.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1912 Map of part of the northern parts of the Ural and Turgai oblasts. Source: <a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map/base/103/uralsk-obl-1912.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqv9AM59Qey9mENxhaW7f76ANKCuFr1oZraVX4RQjzCX3B4ANQ_GU8lOA_xEyGw4zazW7ImJPmAkrmKkt407W90YNmD7FLJvuSqUOCHZP-PloExiTbs_8kvACa-mmD1czPt6826nqZJuqtYGAe6kid6CMQFzVyxstRkoEqZ68nFZKrYp9-mWBBGuu-TQ/s8187/semipalatinsk-obl-1912.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6771" data-original-width="8187" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqv9AM59Qey9mENxhaW7f76ANKCuFr1oZraVX4RQjzCX3B4ANQ_GU8lOA_xEyGw4zazW7ImJPmAkrmKkt407W90YNmD7FLJvuSqUOCHZP-PloExiTbs_8kvACa-mmD1czPt6826nqZJuqtYGAe6kid6CMQFzVyxstRkoEqZ68nFZKrYp9-mWBBGuu-TQ/w640-h530/semipalatinsk-obl-1912.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1912 Map of the Semipalatinsk Oblast. Source: <a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map/base/103/semipalatinsk-obl-1912.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EtoMesto</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p>The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces continues. The former oblasts of Semipalatinsk, Turgai and Ural are now done. This completes what is labeled “Siberia” on the map now. Several more colonies were added: Semipalatinsk, 16 colonies; Turgai, 15 colonies; and Ural, 3 colonies. Tomsk also gained 5 colonies because my borders between Semipalatinsk and Tomsk were off a bit. Whenever I finish an area, I look at it next to surrounding areas to make sure nothing is out of whack. </p><p>What was most interesting about these three oblasts is that they reported <i><b>no Germans in them at all</b></i> before 1901. The colonies that were formed were a part of the Russian Empire for at most seven years. Also interesting is that most did not show up on period maps by name for decades. All the settlement plots were numbered. By the time names of these places started appearing on maps, many of their names had already been changed.</p><p>The origins of those who moved to this area, of course, were all resettlements from elsewhere in the Russian Empire. Most of the sources just said Volga or Black Sea, but some were more specific. Here is a summary of where they came from: </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Provinces mentioned as origins of the resettlers:</b> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Akmola, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Astrakhan-province" target="_blank">Astrakhan</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Bessarabia-Province" target="_blank">Bessarabia</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Ekaterinoslav-province" target="_blank">Ekaterinoslav</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Kharkov-province" target="_blank">Kharkov</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Kherson-province" target="_blank">Kherson</a>, Kurland, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Moscow-province" target="_blank">Moscow</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Petrokov-province" target="_blank">Petrokov</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Poltava-province" target="_blank">Poltava</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Samara-province" target="_blank">Samara</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Saratov-province" target="_blank">Saratov</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GR-Atlas-Taurida-province" target="_blank">Taurida</a>, <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Volhynia-province" target="_blank">Volhynia</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Specific colonies mentioned (grouped by enclave or province):</b> </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=16&ll=48.44319507737369%2C32.06064033347168" target="_blank">Alt-Danzig</a> (Kherson)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.02589651956841%2C29.28707329469453" target="_blank">Alt-Elft</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.24759835269577%2C29.054883208711257" target="_blank">Kulm</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.64454260539568%2C29.32099137998354" target="_blank">Mariewka</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.04873107565062%2C29.29395378404392" target="_blank">Paris</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=14&ll=46.1881395888786%2C29.156305334045484" target="_blank">Tarutino</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=14&ll=46.08536808734313%2C29.010415655471846" target="_blank">Wittenberg</a> (Bessarabia)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Glückstal (not sure which one)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=16&ll=47.12977959080183%2C35.90680925608676" target="_blank">Gnadental</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.207784821840825%2C35.60579463926088" target="_blank">Halbstadt</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.10803110672223%2C35.53105382905733" target="_blank">Lindenau</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.16617877589316%2C36.02283465772403" target="_blank">Waldheim</a> (Molotschna Colony)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.39565452927811%2C37.07405914846192" target="_blank">Grunau</a> (Mariupol enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.370946675015695%2C35.545265667016636" target="_blank">Heidelberg</a> (Prischib enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=14&ll=40.590933410717184%2C46.335608661415144" target="_blank">Helenendorf</a> (South Caucasus)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Krasna (not sure if Beresan enclave or Bessarabia province)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.875630533848756%2C33.5986660744263" target="_blank">Klosterdorf</a> (Schwedengebiet enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.16340374289519%2C31.4365425116135" target="_blank">Landau</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=14&ll=47.21223566982174%2C31.426590326835697" target="_blank">Speyer</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=47.0908127298125%2C31.49550118089448" target="_blank">Sulz</a> (Beresan enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=16&ll=47.08625068054237%2C30.442141963110377" target="_blank">Michelsfeld</a> (Glückstal enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rosental (Podolia)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=51.91010000000004%2C45.6174" target="_blank">Pobochnaya</a> (Volga enclave)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=15&ll=46.67708270752244%2C29.982079134614594" target="_blank">Selz</a> (Kutschurgan enclave)</span></li></ul></span><div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjQaJyES0Aknnc0gUEF8-9e5U7UQIkfzopEzDCYIR9g-0M80Cf5dkg9G950R6z0At0bFRZkhEMzBW09vlvnhZcw5aQJPTVd6TfLiwZe9gfa4jdjXkPuBIpinM8LU0aIjtgtPojOrWAoDXZV_UD6JiFvzj_fNK2LK8oX6HM-9_XMBN7RMoCMJUhIEWQKw/s1692/is%20it%20Ural%3F.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="1692" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjQaJyES0Aknnc0gUEF8-9e5U7UQIkfzopEzDCYIR9g-0M80Cf5dkg9G950R6z0At0bFRZkhEMzBW09vlvnhZcw5aQJPTVd6TfLiwZe9gfa4jdjXkPuBIpinM8LU0aIjtgtPojOrWAoDXZV_UD6JiFvzj_fNK2LK8oX6HM-9_XMBN7RMoCMJUhIEWQKw/w640-h540/is%20it%20Ural%3F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is is Ural? <a href="https://twitter.com/sasha_trub/status/1486517749400674307/photo/1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Map</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/sasha_trub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sasha Trubetskoy on Twitter</a>, 26 Jan 2022. </td></tr></tbody></table><p>A note on the Ural Oblast. Ural and Ural region means a lot of things to a lot of people. Although everyone agrees there is a Ural region, nobody seems to know exactly what what geographic area it includes presently...or in the past. The map above shows some ways of defining the region. This map is from last year of current Russia, so it does not take into account any historical regions that were a part of Russian Empire but are now Kazakhstan.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFZeubRYccryaxxlHKxNz0HWcMu-nN20Yftf5dRPu4Q8VBcR4M6zg99SjemYdJXHQK7xZ42KHPRqZa_AZGoVLJp9zomSKQsLG24U11g5OB58Y5N6G747IpiZLzydTgJN1yEi8CdUMlWw8XKb7cuPkLupJ0IMgcewI5YckfZYVxrzkbMEYwNW2r0VpxWg/s1874/Cis-Ural%20from%20C-K.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1291" data-original-width="1874" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFZeubRYccryaxxlHKxNz0HWcMu-nN20Yftf5dRPu4Q8VBcR4M6zg99SjemYdJXHQK7xZ42KHPRqZa_AZGoVLJp9zomSKQsLG24U11g5OB58Y5N6G747IpiZLzydTgJN1yEi8CdUMlWw8XKb7cuPkLupJ0IMgcewI5YckfZYVxrzkbMEYwNW2r0VpxWg/w640-h440/Cis-Ural%20from%20C-K.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of the Cis-Ural Region and Siberia in <i>From Catherine to Khrushchev</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>In <i>From Catherine to Khrushchev</i>, the Cis-Ural region is outlined and mapped on pages 136-137. In the image above, imagine the Ural mountain range running from above Perm down between Ufa and Chelyabinsk continuing south to just above Orenburg. That would be the central and southern ranges of the Ural mountain range. To the west (left) is the Cis-Ural region; to the east (right) is Siberia, according to this map. The book further defines the German colonies in the Cis-Ural region as follows: </p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The Neu-Samara Colony [eastern part of the Samara Province then; Orenburg Oblast today]</li><li>The colonies around Orenburg [Orenburg Province then; Orenburg Oblast today] </li><li>The colonies around Ufa [Ufa Province then; the republics of Bashkortostan and Tartarsan today]</li><li>The colonies around Aktyubinsk [Turgai Oblast then; Aktobe Province, Kazakhstan today]</li><li>The Arkadak Colony [Saratov Province then; Saratov Oblast today].</li></ol><p>While mostly in the zone of “Is it Ural,” there are some geographical problems with the map in <i>From Catherine to Khrushchev</i>, notably the Arkadak Colony that is situated west of the Volga colonies in Saratov Oblast. No way is that in the Ural region. And Aktyubinsk/Aktobe is south of the mountain range. But if one definition of the Ural region is the Ural mountain range and all the cities and villages in and around it, including those to the north and south of it, then okay, maybe Aktyubinsk falls in that category. Maybe.</p><p>Now that you have seen some of the ways the Ural region has been defined, past and present, I'm here to tell you that the Ural Oblast of the Russian Empire that existed from 1868–1920 isn’t <b>ANY</b> of those above. No, this oblast was further south and west of what anyone in their right mind would call the Ural region. But there it was for 52 years. It does not mean that any other definition of Ural region is wrong; this is just another one to add to the list. So, when you see the data posted to the big map, and you see Ural Oblast is not where you thought the Ural region was, then remember this post.</p><p>One more map section of the area that gives you a bigger picture. This one is from 1914. I’ve labeled a few provinces to give you some reference points. </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9JVnYwoS-5qDj56iKlRwYaODCvpi9rqOHFRTJwpHaiosV57vMKjG2t6rdW6lbPy9HHE7f_HnZqVCBgSZ2UuY-2IV0roLhh8VUBLwDvmG3yp-m5PJ2env9fvEui6QLtLbmpOzcBkjYjVvhkRxT4Ef-WO3FMUF80215gjmLaRZnFQ_0IxD1SW3XoahtA/s2309/where%20in%20the%20world%20is%20ural%3F.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="2309" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9JVnYwoS-5qDj56iKlRwYaODCvpi9rqOHFRTJwpHaiosV57vMKjG2t6rdW6lbPy9HHE7f_HnZqVCBgSZ2UuY-2IV0roLhh8VUBLwDvmG3yp-m5PJ2env9fvEui6QLtLbmpOzcBkjYjVvhkRxT4Ef-WO3FMUF80215gjmLaRZnFQ_0IxD1SW3XoahtA/w640-h436/where%20in%20the%20world%20is%20ural%3F.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of Russia by Governments and Oblasts [1914]. Source: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BC_%281914%29.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As mentioned before, all the data from this research exercise will be posted at once. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next up on the schedule is Russian Turkestan, or what is labeled Central Asia on the map now. It finishes off the southern part of modern-day Kazakhstan and includes settlements in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. After that, it’s off to the </span>Caucuses.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"># # #</span></p></div><div><div><br /></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-72440122078519357482023-04-14T09:31:00.002-07:002023-04-14T10:21:23.610-07:00Steppes Krai: Akmola Oblast<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMHWzBCuEHU8oPjB0_KTUdwQsKLy5GYjOSjSJrqvAksW-64WGKN4qIvcf48NaWQC85xA1ZGw1aH8MTBoPN5tcaQnxsrH-60xfFvU5zju5zeHfu4_z8nHVmR-LkX-X6-x2Wj-mkgL3Rn-qt-gvBOdW7yJHT7mp5_1kZnFO_gBGIJ_LF3ofcS3IKy350EA/s6756/akmolinskaya-1914.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6756" data-original-width="5679" height="749" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMHWzBCuEHU8oPjB0_KTUdwQsKLy5GYjOSjSJrqvAksW-64WGKN4qIvcf48NaWQC85xA1ZGw1aH8MTBoPN5tcaQnxsrH-60xfFvU5zju5zeHfu4_z8nHVmR-LkX-X6-x2Wj-mkgL3Rn-qt-gvBOdW7yJHT7mp5_1kZnFO_gBGIJ_LF3ofcS3IKy350EA/w630-h749/akmolinskaya-1914.jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map-kazakhstan_akmolinskaya-oblast_1914/" target="_blank">1914 of the Akmola Region from EtoMesto.</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="clear: both;">The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces continues. The former Akmola Oblast of the Russian Empire is now complete. Today, it comprises part of Omsk Oblast in Russia and the North, Akmola, and Karaganda regions of Kazakhstan.</p><p style="clear: both;">There were German colonies in this area as early as 1890, and before resettlement to Siberia picked up in the early 1900s, the Imperial Census of 1897 was taken. In it, it was reported there were 682,608 inhabitants in Akmola Oblast. Of those, 4,791 (0.7%) reported themselves as native German speakers. </p><p style="clear: both;">The map above shows the region as it was in 1914 in the Russian Empire, with resettlement areas still open for a few more years. Note that there are many numbered plots but not not many names of places on the map. By this time, there were already many German resettlers from provinces in South Russia as well as those in the Volga area. Where there is good, fertile land, there are Mennonite settlers. Like in Crimea, the Mennonites settled not in planned colonies that are named (such as Molotschna, Chortitza, Zagradovka, etc.), but rather, they settled in the general area around Omsk and west of Omsk along the railway. It was nice to discover several colonies by Germans from Volhynia, Estonia and Lithuania. Again, these are voluntary resettlements. However, mixed in with these settlements would eventually be the “special settlements” and other deportation sites.</p><p style="clear: both;">To what is already on the map, I have done the following: added 65 colonies; removed 5 colonies that I could not find enough evidence to confirm the locations and did not feel good about leaving them there; and have pending another 49 new settlements that were formed in the Soviet era and that I need to cross-check against a list of special settlements so that I can categorize them correctly. </p><p style="clear: both;">The map below shows part of the region as it was in 1955 after the Russian revolutions, after the rise of the Soviet Union, and after WWII — i.e., what was left (as far as the Americans knew) after 40 years. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1MxkWiYCujn6rGlTx4HisXDG7kEWb7p_ErHvC5flwLotLIjrYZXEGSNqtjQDU7wq8EfN14J43Setv2qMZg7EZiElgJX0kmsGoweLqwiJcG7Su9Mexx81hvKdjEaO_gZXS3DhXHDR3D2DOeVxO4KLaBbSFRMDthzBxWNqHdxHARunQ05CVHMdLP8mnQ/s5000/txu-oclc-6559336-nn43-4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3803" data-original-width="5000" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1MxkWiYCujn6rGlTx4HisXDG7kEWb7p_ErHvC5flwLotLIjrYZXEGSNqtjQDU7wq8EfN14J43Setv2qMZg7EZiElgJX0kmsGoweLqwiJcG7Su9Mexx81hvKdjEaO_gZXS3DhXHDR3D2DOeVxO4KLaBbSFRMDthzBxWNqHdxHARunQ05CVHMdLP8mnQ/w640-h486/txu-oclc-6559336-nn43-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/western_siberia/txu-oclc-6559336-nn43-4.jpg" target="_blank">1955 U.S. Army Map Service. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, UT Austin. </a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="clear: both;">Next up will be the former oblasts of Semipalatinsk to the southeast, and Turgai and Ural to the southwest. Of note, the 1897 Imperial Census <i><b>did not report even one native German speaker</b></i> in any of these oblasts. But I have a list of 121 locations in the queue already. Should be interesting. </p><p>The map data will be posted at the end of this research cycle, which is still on target for late June before convention season starts. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-82500467353069659052023-03-12T14:13:00.002-07:002023-03-12T14:17:00.576-07:00Western Siberia: Tobolsk Province<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~337587~90105567:No--28--Karta-Tobol-skoy-gubernii" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="9217" data-original-width="6094" height="936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwTllWP5Pqp0MaWJK1jR0-D3aGJ4R9ICIkTNoFoTVqax87gF_2ByfBOHc2I63MySDuW7G2IdJyrO8HGEdNzpSlaHQIRQolIhxGaOsx9_RF8JP9Etc5GUYkc510ucDUCoOVki36RfAkRA5HdcVh2g3A9hrCqhvnMT4G1y8sixA0SAZKI2QyT1kusynpw/w620-h936/13437044.jpg" width="620" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~337587~90105567:No--28--Karta-Tobol-skoy-gubernii" target="_blank">1914 map of the Tobolsk Province from the David Rumsey Map Collection</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces continues. The former Tobolsk Province in Western Siberia is now complete. This province shrunk over time. I recorded it with its boundaries in 1914, toward the end of the imperial period and when the voluntary resettlement of German and other colonists from elsewhere in Russia to Siberia was in full swing. It spans parts of the present-day Omsk, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan oblasts. Thirty-eight more settlements have been added in the process. And again, like with Tomsk, settlement was primarily in the southern part of the province with a mix of previous regions of origin (Volga, Black Sea, Volhynia) and religious confessions (heavily Mennonite, Protestant, very few Catholics). More mixed ethnicity settlements, too, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Estonian, Latvian. </p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Imperial Census of 1897, there were 1,433,043 inhabitants in Tobolsk Province. Of those, 1,120 (0.08%) reported themselves as native German speakers. This increased as resettlement proceeded over the next several years. </p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With this province, Siberia, as it was defined administratively, is complete. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Next up will be the Steppes Krai and the former oblasts of Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Turgay, and Ural. Starting with Akmolinsk, this will cover the remainder of the present-day Omsk Oblast in Russia and most of northern Kazakhstan. This was a heavier area of resettlement by Germans with nearly 5,000 Germans living in the region before 1897.</p><p style="text-align: left;">As has been mentioned before, the update map data will be posted at the end of this research exercise all at once. Now that it’s beginning to take shape, I’m looking forward to seeing how it will look at the end. </p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-85032710033377293092023-03-02T15:03:00.005-07:002023-03-02T15:23:31.850-07:00Western Siberia: Tomsk Province <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Tomsk-province" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="1560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iBVf2sXWms3N0Z8dvgIgTdmwh0AjZnj0EUIOXt6SDHQ87zeUomSmhA1VC27CAcHapC-DFVBFf_e2nFrgBYskI7_DvDc0FO_vdwhW9I2sa90UpWihNIe2RuyYQ2ZjwkVXzNs4-a5Nxm7r1fKFVwKsDDyLiY1W-9hpQLl7a3HBd8cTziJBU0u1FsU8jQ/w630-h640/Screenshot%202023-03-02%20at%201.29.32%20PM.png" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">German settlements in the Tomsk Province. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The past two weeks I’ve been working through the former <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Tomsk-province" target="_blank">Tomsk Province</a> in Western Siberia, which today spans the oblasts of Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Altai Krai in Russia and the northern tip of East Kazakhstan and eastern edge of Pavlodar provinces in Kazakhstan. So far, 73 more settlements have been added. <br /><br />This part of Siberia, as you’ll recall, is the part where there was voluntary resettlement from other areas in Russia in the early 1900s. It was open for settlement, made easily accessible with the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in 1904, and some Germans thought it was a good way to avoid the mandatory military conscription since it was further east with less oversight in such matters. The early settlements were in the 1890s, but many more came after the railroad was completed. Germans mostly flourished there until the fall of the empire in 1917. </div><div><br /></div><div>I want to note that in the Imperial Census of 1897, there were 1,927,679 inhabitants in Tomsk Province. Of those, 1,430 (0.07%) reported themselves as native German speakers. <br /><div><br /></div><div>The origins of the German re-settlers were diverse. There were many mixed Volga/Black Sea colonies from all the provinces of those two regions. German Mennonites established the Barnaul Colony, which consisted of six settlement areas: Salvgorod, Bas Agatsch, Glyaden, Pashnya, Saratov, and Fünfziger. </div><div><br />Origins of the re-settlers (reported from various sources, not confirmed): <br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Ekaterinoslav-province" target="_blank">Ekaterinoslav Province</a>: Chortitza Colony, Jamburg, Killmanstal, Yekaterinoslav</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Kherson-province" target="_blank">Kherson Province</a>: Fürstenfeld, Kronau, Landau, Nikolaital</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GR-Atlas-Taurida-province" target="_blank">Taurida Province</a>: Molotschna Colony</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Don-Cossacks-Host" target="_blank">Don Cossacks Host</a>: Meschewoje</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Volhynia-province" target="_blank">Volhynia Province</a>: Neuborn</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Samara-province" target="_blank">Samara Province</a>: Beckerdorf, Dehler, Hockerberg, Kano, Katharinenstadt, Orlovskoye and Philippsfeld</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Saratov-province" target="_blank">Saratov Province</a>: Dönhof, Kratzke</li><li><a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Orenburg-province" target="_blank">Orenburg Province</a>: Ufa Colony</li><li>Baltics: Livonia (Estonia)</li><li>Austro-Hungry: Liebeling (Banat)</li></ul><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div><div><div>There was also a Neudorf...because there’s always a Neudorf, right? It wasn’t readily apparent exactly which Neudorf it was. In true German fashion of leaving at least some breadcrumbs, some of the colonies were named after the colonies they left: Kratzke, Dönhof, Mariupol, Landau, Lichtefeld, Kano, Beckerdorf, etc. <br /><br />Next up will be the province of Toblosk. <br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHO-LbuX9DasmOys-hhY9KPMKSdt_jofQvsRLakDGq_D-Emrhp1f_bvJUCOXDXwFpVHwIArBrpSlpWNdWUe53SXB1QH_Lsy_VH8M1Z_olK-0G73G3BtMrgb-oaman9U1jSHdBtgCpQZtevcMYBQ0jsBXU5G-F_jAstkOl65tY5evBjbwL7PMV0hoiOGg/s5996/1914%20Tomsk%20cleaned%20up.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5996" data-original-width="4335" height="860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHO-LbuX9DasmOys-hhY9KPMKSdt_jofQvsRLakDGq_D-Emrhp1f_bvJUCOXDXwFpVHwIArBrpSlpWNdWUe53SXB1QH_Lsy_VH8M1Z_olK-0G73G3BtMrgb-oaman9U1jSHdBtgCpQZtevcMYBQ0jsBXU5G-F_jAstkOl65tY5evBjbwL7PMV0hoiOGg/w621-h860/1914%20Tomsk%20cleaned%20up.jpg" width="621" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1914 map of the Tomsk Province from the <a href="https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~337589~90105566:No--29--Karta-Tomskoy-gubernii?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:No.%2029.%20Karta%20Tomskoy%20gubernii;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=1&trs=2" target="_blank">David Rumsey Map Collection</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbo3LDRQhXum7sxJdCxpkQpBw2_Ay53m2MkN0DaQpdNTBXa6wjRizHp8D1rnWY2rGgimRkf96GZggKxtnPzPs6asgsgrSMlNU-ybUjGNK-OqOx-_hcARDD20KMzzHtpekdY50Wp5-a21Np_m9kU975Bw3q2Wr3Zu5TAwOGHhhM2PndLzC5vk4DT5Q-qA/s1488/translated%20key.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="1488" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbo3LDRQhXum7sxJdCxpkQpBw2_Ay53m2MkN0DaQpdNTBXa6wjRizHp8D1rnWY2rGgimRkf96GZggKxtnPzPs6asgsgrSMlNU-ybUjGNK-OqOx-_hcARDD20KMzzHtpekdY50Wp5-a21Np_m9kU975Bw3q2Wr3Zu5TAwOGHhhM2PndLzC5vk4DT5Q-qA/s320/translated%20key.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div><br /></div><br /></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-32900244998747966362023-02-24T16:15:00.006-07:002023-02-24T16:15:37.518-07:00German Settlements in Ukraine<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJv70G8WWm7EkTjw293xpMjDa1_jM6PnGOrqiUKrLhWyjKxirRslnY1kRwT1MabCyJP6vdL8YCo__uwqXvZx6cEz69a44YRqECPXtTLrtssR_Je64eAzCsfcfNaBMP99Xq0zN9w_K7woBAMitZfsJAG-ug9bvg08VR2CVDRGbuRF18BpqT55XjcyF9vw/s1674/German%20settlements%20in%20Ukraine%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1674" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJv70G8WWm7EkTjw293xpMjDa1_jM6PnGOrqiUKrLhWyjKxirRslnY1kRwT1MabCyJP6vdL8YCo__uwqXvZx6cEz69a44YRqECPXtTLrtssR_Je64eAzCsfcfNaBMP99Xq0zN9w_K7woBAMitZfsJAG-ug9bvg08VR2CVDRGbuRF18BpqT55XjcyF9vw/w640-h474/German%20settlements%20in%20Ukraine%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Between 1766 and 1918, Germans were known to have lived in close to 3,000 places in within the borders of Ukraine today, in both urban and rural settlements. Many were established by Germans after 1804. These places—whether they still exist or not, whether their names are the same or not—remain in the hearts of the descendants as one our ancestral homelands.</span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Slava Ukraini! </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🇺🇦" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/2/16/1f1fa_1f1e6.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="display: inline-flex; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🌻" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tb9/2/16/1f33b.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"># # #</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-5259460971287124972023-02-19T16:14:00.002-07:002023-02-19T16:32:55.108-07:00Update: Eastern Siberia and Far East Russia<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5tqgwCG5elUK6e_UV_NngIMT6-oVOKm6zJrIToVa2Gc4HwNlzCwWX-EcxPLc09QstM0pNR-ZMwKra2duY0CaM-FSB9mNH0mVUbYkQIcyN2ypEPD1qUvId-GOl_MC_LrALKOL24Mm3OpFOExiOsiHajCzZA_42R8IdjKCTcW8cYzHtfyjrW5N5c5O8Q/s1818/20230219%20update%20map%20(Eastern%20Siberia%20and%20Far%20East%20Russia).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1818" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5tqgwCG5elUK6e_UV_NngIMT6-oVOKm6zJrIToVa2Gc4HwNlzCwWX-EcxPLc09QstM0pNR-ZMwKra2duY0CaM-FSB9mNH0mVUbYkQIcyN2ypEPD1qUvId-GOl_MC_LrALKOL24Mm3OpFOExiOsiHajCzZA_42R8IdjKCTcW8cYzHtfyjrW5N5c5O8Q/w640-h390/20230219%20update%20map%20(Eastern%20Siberia%20and%20Far%20East%20Russia).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>A productive first week of splitting of Asiatic Russia into its former imperial provinces. The work has been less splitting and more locating. Starting in Eastern Siberia with the province of Irkutsk and working my way east into the Russian Far East, a total of 38 new locations were added, mostly from the 1897 Imperial Census, but quite a few came from EWZ files. These are all non-German founded settlements where German people were reported to have lived, or they themselves reported being born there. Some were voluntary, but I have to assume that some were involuntary the further east I went, and the more EWZ files as the primary source for place names started showing up. <br /></p>Completed are the province/oblast/regions (as of about 1914) of Amur, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Primorskaya, Sakhalin and Transbaikal.<p>Next, I will be moving into Western Siberia and south into the Steppes Krai using the same methodology. There will undoubtedly be more location additions with each province. Everything will be posted once all of Asiatic Russia has been done. It has to be an all or nothing post given my <span style="background-color: white;">propensity</span> to push the limits of Google MyMaps. I think it will be worth the wait. </p><p>Have a great week!</p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p><br /></p>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-33378174667271752952023-02-11T10:45:00.002-07:002023-02-11T11:25:42.941-07:00Mappy Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVr3saRD7xjmEacUpuGzgVgJLpoeK_UD_EsVylj1vEP3Rub3OEnGD2CVve0rh4z9FLpqSRHaVvZ6rYvYpzLQAEAeOlD1H98kcZH0WGdcC2SShKe6D-VoKYRS0zYHwfdSimvytrbQeZ4Qn2RfNmzz0MILc6FV-XIRcwFwUmQgz6aQBsn8e5DioIJyGC1w/s3203/mappy%20birthday%202023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1767" data-original-width="3203" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVr3saRD7xjmEacUpuGzgVgJLpoeK_UD_EsVylj1vEP3Rub3OEnGD2CVve0rh4z9FLpqSRHaVvZ6rYvYpzLQAEAeOlD1H98kcZH0WGdcC2SShKe6D-VoKYRS0zYHwfdSimvytrbQeZ4Qn2RfNmzz0MILc6FV-XIRcwFwUmQgz6aQBsn8e5DioIJyGC1w/w640-h354/mappy%20birthday%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Before I get into the notes of this month’s release, I’d like to take a moment to do my annual “how it started” and “how it’s going” look back on this project. <div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>This is how it started on 11 February 2016:</b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="565" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xwDC3EdEcJ0EK57fS8eWbEQefSfHfc8Xm9luUq2uXGYYJcfLGiXiK5w5a8uqD6GKJyR1DmV7Br89CqdS1sbw17NAEwfge_zQY-6X3ForgPIxqvE-bmqR5lZRbtr7VUotywB3kuGxi-0yO3pT603x=w640-h565" width="640" /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And this is how it’s going on 11 February 2023: </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=4&ll=53.2801137011538%2C52.29894531250012" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1665" data-original-width="3192" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-1radacr6DygC69dIlgyqUkpVZUXFcJ-Kx6kZappqQgib7toSvvEj4a8id1VvbprNOjlLQBzkwdQ-FmCg-GkvLCc-ebZBC4spqqP-xPHrEl8RB5rUKQ1TCCpPFNlDWX41lDW2xCPjxH_O671Fsk5wFwKUbeYEjK2V37zH018IvgTMgskKrAQVgSj2w/w640-h334/20221212%20map%20of%20German%20villages%20copy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The map refresh before Christmas last year left a few things outstanding that have been dealt with in this weekend’s update. </div><div><br /></div><div>There were 72 settlements that were outstanding for verification in the Samara province that have been confirmed and fully documented. These were mostly established in the Soviet era. Because I was in the neighborhood, an additional 42 settlements were added as I went through the Stumpp map by section. Many of them were chutors/khutors, collectives and state farms; some only appeared by name on one map other than Stumpp’s. </div><div><br /></div><div>The imperial Samara province was dissolved in 1928, so all those settlements with populations recorded in the 1924 census are recorded with their imperial district/province. Anything established after 1928 do not have the district and the province is asterisked to note that’s for categorizing these settlements together with those in what is the former Samara province at that point. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I did have difficulty confirming some settlements as part of the “Volga German enclave” because they appeared during the interwar years (1918-1939). I hesitate to make the assumption that because they were near other Volga colonies that they were indeed “Volga German.” I did my best to not assume, but rather, try to find a source or a site that was researching them as Volga German settlement. Therefore, if you are looking for places where Volga Germans lived during the interwar period, you are strongly encouraged to use the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Samara-province" target="_blank">Samara</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Saratov-province" target="_blank">Saratov</a> province maps or the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=185axO47WKsGEChHdM-3-Z4tWK3c&ll=48.96174610448951%2C50.94540664062495&z=5" target="_blank">regional map</a> instead of just the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Volga-enclave" target="_blank">Volga enclave map</a>. As always, if you don’t find what you’re looking for, let me know, and I will try to find it for you. </div><div><br /></div><div>The “About” pin has been updated to include the <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/index.html" target="_blank">Black Sea German Research (BSGR) </a>website. Germans from the provinces of South Russia migrated north to the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Orenburg-province" target="_blank">Orenburg</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Ufa-province" target="_blank">Ufa</a> provinces, and there are some recent Catholic church record translations available at BSGR for the <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/learn_asiatic-russia.html" target="_blank">Chelyabinsk and Orenburg parishes</a>. They also have EWZ indexes in their database with hundreds entries from both EWZs and donated GEDCOMs that refer to settlements in the provinces in this region. BSGR is a real sleeper site of information. Spend 3 minutes searching the database and the website for things you are sure are not there, and prepare to be pleasantly surprised.</div><div><br />In December during my annual clean-up-my-downloads-folder event, I posted on social media about <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=185axO47WKsGEChHdM-3-Z4tWK3c&ll=50.078195737207565%2C46.151529393662216&z=12" target="_blank">14 German chutors in Tsarev District</a>, Astrakhan Province...later the Stalingrad Oblast after the imperial province was dissolved, today in the Volgograd Oblast. Someone’s grandmother was born there was able to confirm that the German origins were linked to Dobrinka and Galka. I like when things like that happen, when the story behind a pin is suddenly revealed. Those settlements have been updated with that information. <br /><br />All of the relavant maps have been updated. The <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/sources.html" target="_blank">sources page</a> has been updated to reflect additions or updates. Someday I will annotate this list. It is a good list. And the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/change-history.html" target="_blank">change history log</a> has been updated with a full list of settlements updated and added. </div><div><br /></div><div>Next up, I will be splitting the settlements in Asiatic Russia into their historical imperial provinces as they were circa 1914 toward the end of the empire: Siberia and the Russian Far East (11 provinces), Steppes Krai and Russian Turkestan (11 provinces), and the Caucasus Viceroyality (14 provinces). This is the last region where I need to do this exercise. I did some preliminary planning already, so I know where I am headed and what it will take to get there. Like the other regions, it is an all or nothing effort. Nothing will be posted to the map until the split is complete. I fully expect this to be ready before <a href="https://twitter.com/grsl1763/status/1621315897255411713/photo/1" target="_blank">conference season</a> starts in July.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time, enjoy!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div><br /><br /></div></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-71162752613014316202022-12-14T14:40:00.003-07:002022-12-14T14:58:12.384-07:00It's been a busy year.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=4&ll=50.62282333573973%2C68.11932654993451" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1665" data-original-width="3192" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisrdRWiwzlWlGyFINNKn2VSrRfPh-wD3EfovqiRIMzjNgRCaYpLSaos5Q9I6J-DjVtFRdDJ1vIeqcD227HfmrySDEDqT3jcaQmAyHcJtyDYkWKFNCu_lIYm0OeL7vonQ93I0jb4fwd8kWMnEeQqzew2rvwJHkte56mzTeeDcGGVDSy-AqT79JhvpGXFg/w664-h347/20221212%20map%20of%20German%20villages%20copy.png" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=4&ll=50.62282333573973%2C68.11932654993451" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map</a> as of December 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>With convention and presentation season over late last September, I dove back into research again. The maps have all been updated as well as the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/sources.html">sources</a> and the <a href="https://www.germansfromrussiasettlementlocations.org/p/change-history.html">change log</a>. This is the last update for this year. </p><p>This time, the focus was on <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Eastern-Russia" target="_blank">East Russia</a>: that is, the eastern part of European Russia, the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Volga-enclave" target="_blank">Volga German colonies</a> and the surrounding provinces. I had a few requests to address the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Samara-province" target="_blank">Samara</a>/<a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Saratov-province" target="_blank">Saratov</a> province split in 1850, so I did a similar exercise that I did with <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-South-Russia" target="_blank">South Russia</a> last year: disassemble the entire region completely and put it back together in the provinces as they were at the end of the Russia Empire. Each colony in the region was revisited and revised and notes added to help the researcher fill in the blanks depending on when their ancestors resided in these places. Period geolocated maps were used to place them accordingly. The same was done for the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Orenburg-province" target="_blank">Orenburg</a>/<a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Ufa-province" target="_blank">Ufa</a> province split. There are still 72 outstanding Volga colonies because there was not enough time to finish them all before the holidays. They were all established in the Soviet era with founding years in the 1920s or unknown years. Those will be in the next update prior to <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/event/rt2023" target="_blank">RootsTech</a> in March. </p><p>Unlike most maps, this map is that it is not just a single snapshot in time drawn with data that might be a few years old already, like most maps. It is a cumulation of centuries of data on one single map. It is impossible to include every administrative variant that transpired over the years, but I am trying to put what makes sense to help guide researchers on their journeys. </p><p>One piece of information I have altered in the Volga colonies is the German origins. I had been going through the confirmed origins on <a href="https://www.volgagermans.org/" target="_blank">The Volga Germans</a> website and listing out the origins for each colony. But Maggie Hein and her crew of researchers are difficult to keep up with. All kudos to them for just doing what needs to be done and sharing it freely with everyone. For now, I've added links to the colonies from their website instead of listing out the places in Germany that have been confirmed. As much as I would someday like to be able to search the map for a Germanic origin and see all the colonies in Russia that had people come from that place, for now it is not feasible. If anyone has time on their hands and would like to take on this data collection, let me know. </p><p>Also in this release are updated notes on the occupation of Ukraine by Russia. Because this is a living document (continually edited and updated as research progresses and as current geopolitical events occur), the former German settlements that are in Russian occupied Ukraine are noted as such. I happily removed some of those notes this time around, but not enough of them, in my opinion. An easy way to find these is to search the big map for “Russo-Ukrainian” (no quotation marks) to get a list. The first time I noted these on the map, I had to use a number of sources to draw my own front line through a copy of my map. Since then, the good volunteers with <a href="https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed" target="_blank">GeoConfirmed</a> have been keeping up an easily <a href="https://geoconfirmed.azurewebsites.net/" target="_blank">searchable map</a> (by latitude and longitude instead of the other way around) with a current frontline. </p><p>In addition, there have been a few locations added to the former Kharkov Province with more pending. Some of these originated from the <a href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php?cy=0" target="_blank">First Imperial Census of 1897</a> wherein native languages were recorded, giving me insight into where there were German speakers at that point in time. Knowing the provinces, districts and cities were German speakers were has become a jumping off point for further searches of EWZ indexes on the <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/" target="_blank">Black Sea German Research (BSGR)</a> database along with its full database of donated GEDCOMS. Within it, I can search by place and sort by date to generate a list of places and the earliest known recorded births in each place. Do not let the term “Black Sea” mislead you into thinking you will only find Black Sea German information on that website or in the database. Our ancestors moved far and wide. Recent <a href="https://www.blackseagr.org/pdfs/weiss/Chelyabinsk-RC-1910-B-M-D.pdf" target="_blank">translations of parish records </a>released by the researchers at BSGR show this. If a Black Sea German family moves to <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Sz-Sn4I1F-iqS2sNeeTPZ6-Jd8I&z=9&ll=55.2425237870076%2C61.5217862213758" target="_blank">Chelyabinsk</a>, are they still Black Sea German? If a tree falls in a forest...well, you get the idea. The <a href="https://sggee.org/" target="_blank">Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE)</a> master pedigree database is another source I use in the same manner. This one is restricted to members and has the place names normalized. I never know what I might find until I start searching these pedigree databases; knowing what to search for helps. I hope that someday there will be a similar effort to collect donated GEDCOMS from Volga Germans and put them online, either free to the public like BSGR or a part of a membership. It’s long overdue, really. Also, as long as I’m asking for things in my Christmas stocking (I have been very good this year), please include a search and/or sort by place name option. Thanks, Santa. </p><p>I have started to make a list what I would like to work on in the coming year. Somehow the list of things to do never gets shorter. I am so very lucky that I am never bored. </p><p>One domestic (?) project that I will be working is a map of first families in the historic Beaver Creek area of Dakota Territory. When Michael Miller sent out his December issue of <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/news/touch-prairie-living-december-2022?fbclid=IwAR1FUH1GZhVUONQ8xIP7OZ2ImLf6PeDpZ4bnjdQbSxmYtm1zA85DMTz_jWw" target="_blank">In Touch with Prairie Living</a>, it included excerpts of the "Fischer Family Chronicle," which had been donated to the <a href="https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/" target="_blank">Germans from Russia Heritage Collection </a>archive. The Fischers, landing first in Yankton, but eventually settled in the Beaver Creek area now in North Dakota, same place as my great-great-grandfather, Ludwig Erck, in 1886 and my great-grandfather, Johann Schilling, in 1898. George Rath in his book, <i><a href="https://worldcat.org/en/title/2967626" target="_blank">The Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas</a>,</i> mentioned the “so-called Beaver Creek area,” the area where Catholic Germans from Russia first settled in Dakota. A while back, I put together a map to try to figure out exactly <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KcBE2x_DTklC7TVSF_pPT8qBp-MvBzDG&ll=46.245723910002376%2C-99.78701678711046&z=10" target="_blank">where exactly the settlement of Beaver Creek was</a> based on what was in Rath’s book and and other sources that mentioned Beaver Creek in North Dakota. There were several townsites called Beaver Creek, but none of them developed into actual towns. I shared the map, and there was some interest from those who had ties to the area. So, I will be putting together a plan to collect data to map, and hopefully descendants of those who settled there will be able to contribute some of their time, knowledge, and maybe some scans of documents and photos to the project. I will post the plan here when it is ready to go. If anyone is interested in participate, please let me know. Although it may only be an interest to a few, it might serve as a map model for other small historic GR areas in the future. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KcBE2x_DTklC7TVSF_pPT8qBp-MvBzDG&ll=46.245723910002376%2C-99.78701678711046&z=10" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1730" data-original-width="3024" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVE3bsIXBXLMIrPTDusBsFdET2KkYIDT3UvOsVAsQ_Y2vUer7ea5eDpfR7aNZ0iRk5QQg0J8DwrhtldWG_OgweIoXLAVPTsk8LJpbJke-79Gz3_AhYjiGlPph_5rLEBUJBNCRZQAwskYXuXwaNLgN-UzhqfnIKohCAF24ESU5wsgbsqZ4qukh1VXUhw/w640-h366/beaver%20creek.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beta version of Historic Beaver Creek.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>That’s it for 2022. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. May all your days be merry and bright.</p><p>— Sandy</p><p style="text-align: center;"># # #</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr BCX0 SCXO231129051" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO231129051 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXO109200100 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXO109200100 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></p></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-31916708692561433552022-10-04T10:34:00.227-07:002022-12-26T18:03:38.407-07:001937-38 Collective Farms & Agriculture Maps<div style="text-align: left;"><div><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below are several related to collective farms (<i>kolkhozes)</i> in the Soviet Union. I happened on them while exploring the beta version of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) catalog. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are all declassified CIA maps apparently produced from data collected between 1937 into the early 1950s. Some of our German ancestors, of course, lived and worked on these farms up to WWII, and some continued to work on the state farms (<i>sovkhozes</i>), which were more prevalent in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, after being resettled. The maps were produced after the <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor#:~:text=In%201932%20and%201933%2C%20millions,Soviet%20government%20of%20Joseph%20Stalin." target="_blank">Holodomor</a>, the Great Famine. Perhaps it was a lessons-learned exercise on the part of the U.S.? NARA does not offer any context, explanation or other information about the maps. But among them is a series of maps that offers “computed production” — what <i>could be produced </i>on the farms given the acreage that could be planted and harvested within the estimated dates, and, presumably, if the farm land was managed well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While these maps don’t have German colony names on them, I still found them to be interesting. They led me to learn more about Machine Tractor Stations (Машинно-тракторные станции), which I had not heard of before. I almost disregarded that map entirely in favor of the crop maps until I looked into the subject further and realized it was a key part of the bigger story of collective farms. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;">During the early days of collectivization (1929-30, Machine Tractor Stations (MTS) were established and tasked to acquire, maintain and provide tractors and other farm machines to collective farms in an area with the idea that it would modernize farming in the Soviet state, especially for peasants who often didn’t own such equipment. However, farming was already modernized in the German colonies, whose farmers owned tractors and other farm implements, particularly in the Mennonite settlements. Waldheim in the Molotschna Colony was home to the <a href="https://gameo.org/index.php?title=I._J._Neufeld_%26_Co._(Waldheim,_Molotschna_Mennonite_Settlement,_Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)">I. I. Neufeld & Co.</a>, a farm equipment manufacturing company who had been producing farm equipment since 1890. Look at any of the old Volkskalendars and newspapers before the fall of the Russian Empire, and you will see many advertisements for farm equipment for sale, including U.S. manufacturers. The inventory of farm equipment in the MST initially came from (confiscated from) prosperous individual farmers (kulaks) which was then turned around and rented back to the collective farm. Often finding tractors and other equipment in the MTS in disrepair, German farmers ended up resorting to using horses and cattle (for as long as they lasted) to bring in their crops in the early 1930s, leaving some of the crops on the field. MTS also served as political centers that oversaw the farms and made sure their obligations to the state were made in a timely fashion. They also made decisions on the timing of seeding and harvesting. These decisions were not always based on good agricultural practices.</p><p>The first MTS was established at the Shevchenko state farm in the late 1920s, which was in the same district as the Beresan colonies. Ulrich Mertens’ <i><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10365/32028" target="_blank">German-Russian Handbook</a></i> notes the demise of the MTS (p. 121) and indicates which colonies had collective farms, but it does not mention where the MTSs were located. Unable to find a definitive list of MTS locations (Russian Wikipedia states they were “created everywhere”), accounts by German-Russian descendants and scholars noted they existed in Speyer (Beresan) and several of the Mennonite Colonies including Orloff (Molotschna), Halbstadt (Molotschna), Waldheim (Molotschna) and Chortitza (Chortitza). The website Wolgadeutch has an article and a map (unfortunately not very readable) about MTS in the Volga German ASSR.</p><p>If interested, here is some additional reading material on the topic: </p><div><ol><li><a href="https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq39574.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3YO4r9wPVmlwpSdpD5DO72Mx3i-zRSr_daWR--f8WHz-WwzeFadQ58zoo" target="_blank">The Fate of Mennonites in Ukraine and the Crimea During Soviet Collectivization and the Famine (1930-1933</a> (<a href="https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng" target="_blank">Library and Archives Canada</a>, Canada)</li><li><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" target="_blank">Machine and Tractor Station</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">Russian Wikipedia</a>, USA)</li><li><a href="http://agrolib.ru/rastenievodstvo/item/f00/s01/e0001185/index.shtml">Machine and Tractor Stations (MTS)</a> (<a href="http://agrolib.ru/" target="_blank">Library of Agronomy</a>, Russia)</li><li><a href="https://lexikon.wolgadeutsche.net/article/196" target="_blank">Machine and Tractor Stations in the Volga German ASSR</a> (<a href="https://wolgadeutsche.net/index.php" target="_blank">Geschichte der Wolgadeutsch</a>, Russia)</li><li><a href="https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/39384/1/ASI19_005.pdf">The Origin of the Machine Tractor Station in the USSR : A New Perspective</a> (<a href="https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/" target="_blank">Hokkaido University</a>, Japan)</li><li><a href="https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1939-2/tractor-drivers/tractor-drivers-texts/political-role-of-machine-tractor-stations/">Political Role of Machine-Tractor Stations</a> (<a href="https://msu.edu/" target="_blank">Michigan State University</a>, USA)</li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Below are the maps from 1937–38 along with their original source URLs. I have cleaned up the images, and they are all available along with some later maps and soil maps of Ukraine in a <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Qvy76WUz4orkaV28" target="_blank">photo collection here</a>. Visit the links below to see and obtain the originals. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">_______</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaAad-Mm8bVvhueg1zPCo47UXC6cmEUF20i8rG-wjJSS5EzYW068M-3MLCfRszVc07qUW-cy-P8zulYHbtF3wQ61Z4E8bhqBNRiqff1Mv4lQw7gFFoGKOIyWPV4bYiGyBBiySkr88yCbdW8ePdij4omK8_dtOYLi07vJlZkbdqdPrBnnOt0ofFPNDlXQ/s4020/1937%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20serviced%20by%20machine%20tractors%20(source%20NARA).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4020" data-original-width="2920" height="893" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaAad-Mm8bVvhueg1zPCo47UXC6cmEUF20i8rG-wjJSS5EzYW068M-3MLCfRszVc07qUW-cy-P8zulYHbtF3wQ61Z4E8bhqBNRiqff1Mv4lQw7gFFoGKOIyWPV4bYiGyBBiySkr88yCbdW8ePdij4omK8_dtOYLi07vJlZkbdqdPrBnnOt0ofFPNDlXQ/w648-h893/1937%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20serviced%20by%20machine%20tractors%20(source%20NARA).jpg" width="648" /></a></p><p style="clear: both;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b>European USSR: Collective Farms, Proportion Services by Machine Tractor Stations, 1937</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA, <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082069">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/15908206</a></div><p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8t1dqkYYkn995thisty0mgglovm23iEIYejXcW9oyKrXA6n8Y0-lL_CQuNgSx-QZ7yfR0NqU0vAiuZz78-_9YaUPYzNm9NEhZRcIQ0GZSlXbVIKXuio9yjYEk-y5pV7lqg0EiNoT52x3qEltniGQWj5IH3_GlYcaIJzQ-_TnT0m7vV2SFsBcqgYoSdg/s4004/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20by%20type%20of%20farms%20(source%20NARA).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4004" data-original-width="2861" height="898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8t1dqkYYkn995thisty0mgglovm23iEIYejXcW9oyKrXA6n8Y0-lL_CQuNgSx-QZ7yfR0NqU0vAiuZz78-_9YaUPYzNm9NEhZRcIQ0GZSlXbVIKXuio9yjYEk-y5pV7lqg0EiNoT52x3qEltniGQWj5IH3_GlYcaIJzQ-_TnT0m7vV2SFsBcqgYoSdg/w643-h898/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20by%20type%20of%20farms%20(source%20NARA).jpg" width="643" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>European USSR: Sown Area by Types of Farms, 1938</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082067" target="_blank">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082067</a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;">_______</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtZqcRNa39v2TlJVGohbP-YiR1dAqn4LZZsEEOHHMBLiBApOU08VxZbwl6dDHRbLuEOMvfNB89yDPIF18X6wgD4XtslnfsULxctrifjHXnTAY5lLaIiTkRY-Nwu-CteEbvSEjXK7B9qr651C2tihP8aAvZwfR55kYaDCLdUS4IKUglnzg17ANQ8p3YA/s4386/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20oats%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3361" data-original-width="4386" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtZqcRNa39v2TlJVGohbP-YiR1dAqn4LZZsEEOHHMBLiBApOU08VxZbwl6dDHRbLuEOMvfNB89yDPIF18X6wgD4XtslnfsULxctrifjHXnTAY5lLaIiTkRY-Nwu-CteEbvSEjXK7B9qr651C2tihP8aAvZwfR55kYaDCLdUS4IKUglnzg17ANQ8p3YA/w640-h490/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20oats%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Major Areas of Oats in the Soviet Union, 1938. Approximate seeding and harvesting dates.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514363">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514363</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;">_______</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3xlVfFLmRyNox6MYkvytwUb1JckdRorOFk-rVWHmtoHUE5xKzr2QwZnBGnOoI5rtjisTYMjG7Q2hI_7d2VtU22cJyqz-lhn40wFFmb9L9gh7ClVg4DFxa7NqyKIMEkab8FWfOZ2rMCrBvjhSY-Hh9W22UCSmarHtJsuv3rwwIwBexQMcXl6M0k6tSg/s4374/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20rye%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3333" data-original-width="4374" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3xlVfFLmRyNox6MYkvytwUb1JckdRorOFk-rVWHmtoHUE5xKzr2QwZnBGnOoI5rtjisTYMjG7Q2hI_7d2VtU22cJyqz-lhn40wFFmb9L9gh7ClVg4DFxa7NqyKIMEkab8FWfOZ2rMCrBvjhSY-Hh9W22UCSmarHtJsuv3rwwIwBexQMcXl6M0k6tSg/w640-h488/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20rye%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Major Areas of Rye in the Soviet Union, 1938. Approximate seeding and harvesting dates.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA, <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514363">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514363</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBuUYhCyjjIdeJvp10JHZxASsklBLERRTZboHntnKuQqUIOXJFd74B1GN1YRQwzf7KdqTqsXntRIpaBQcx2jpuUDB8hAV1z0UpKp2harCnRZgWyGFDANgHBHJHUNMddKP-Z6vEshviH2Sof8Osn_Dvo2owyFQmm3vkY1D_Xa4JAP6Ipr0qOpO5qsdmg/s4386/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20spring%20wheat%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3358" data-original-width="4386" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBuUYhCyjjIdeJvp10JHZxASsklBLERRTZboHntnKuQqUIOXJFd74B1GN1YRQwzf7KdqTqsXntRIpaBQcx2jpuUDB8hAV1z0UpKp2harCnRZgWyGFDANgHBHJHUNMddKP-Z6vEshviH2Sof8Osn_Dvo2owyFQmm3vkY1D_Xa4JAP6Ipr0qOpO5qsdmg/w640-h490/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20spring%20wheat%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Major Areas of Spring Wheat in the Soviet Union, 1938. Approximate seeding and harvesting dates.</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514359">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514359</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Jpt3rsvtuvZO-tRS0wx88PeUhTTFPBDGRIiHRpPyFhHa1nTwK0ARTLRTBPPeN3R6onAk-OnZf34yyTTbMGRPstji3ExF7d9RwtMQhWmpF6LYFvhqA6YZlE7P8MTiVD3UugcfN2ljAWSq5FzqZxIoDYlW9mIZtWnL5sIuvJ9sfhx4GeO88jyFna4AjA/s4377/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20winter%20wheat%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3355" data-original-width="4377" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Jpt3rsvtuvZO-tRS0wx88PeUhTTFPBDGRIiHRpPyFhHa1nTwK0ARTLRTBPPeN3R6onAk-OnZf34yyTTbMGRPstji3ExF7d9RwtMQhWmpF6LYFvhqA6YZlE7P8MTiVD3UugcfN2ljAWSq5FzqZxIoDYlW9mIZtWnL5sIuvJ9sfhx4GeO88jyFna4AjA/w640-h490/1938%20USSR%20Seeding%20and%20Harvesting%20Dates%20-%20winter%20wheat%20(source%20NARA).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Major Areas of Winter Wheat in the Soviet Union, 1938. Approximate seeding and harvesting dates.</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA, <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514361">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514361</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">_______</div><div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaLp3e1hv9PlZ0-YMqlozA1SYfckKnCOmggUG4bv118E2ATDR88g5FGcv-4_sv2kqZL2n6NFUDtBGDOy1SvV2cukvwaGFi15lh4SzisA0pin4RhhI8CfhI1brxvl8X8r_-A4g7O_EnhEvim5CQjJ-B-7tEdBNg7z-5TAyempSvF4tEcz88BvRlRV4yfA/s3994/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20growing%20flax,%20sunflowers,%20beets%20and%20hemp%20(source%20NARA).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3994" data-original-width="2946" height="798" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaLp3e1hv9PlZ0-YMqlozA1SYfckKnCOmggUG4bv118E2ATDR88g5FGcv-4_sv2kqZL2n6NFUDtBGDOy1SvV2cukvwaGFi15lh4SzisA0pin4RhhI8CfhI1brxvl8X8r_-A4g7O_EnhEvim5CQjJ-B-7tEdBNg7z-5TAyempSvF4tEcz88BvRlRV4yfA/w589-h798/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20growing%20flax,%20sunflowers,%20beets%20and%20hemp%20(source%20NARA).jpg" width="589" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>European USSR: Sown Area of Flax, Sunflowers, Sugar Beets, and Hemp, 1938</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082075">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082075</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">_______</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP910b5GWdqpQJLE_o8M8TIG1EIHHWjXuStLI4HnKFGa2cF1nxgASimSigjLzLlev6yCsW9CKPqUYTjMGP0klsx63lxhT-C6GaQYTPNlPO5A_ALshMnAbvAF5vkP7p7az-yZtwVvqyoO2n2t5UlbnHPnk3fkxjW_GPYWrO4oWA7-Gh3FdnQ8T4grecXw/s4020/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20growing%20wheat%20and%20rye%20(source%20NARA).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4020" data-original-width="2895" height="797" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP910b5GWdqpQJLE_o8M8TIG1EIHHWjXuStLI4HnKFGa2cF1nxgASimSigjLzLlev6yCsW9CKPqUYTjMGP0klsx63lxhT-C6GaQYTPNlPO5A_ALshMnAbvAF5vkP7p7az-yZtwVvqyoO2n2t5UlbnHPnk3fkxjW_GPYWrO4oWA7-Gh3FdnQ8T4grecXw/w573-h797/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20growing%20wheat%20and%20rye%20(source%20NARA).jpg" width="573" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>European USSR: Sown Area of Wheat and Rye, 1938</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082073">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082073</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0tyik6db1Ng-H9vya1dO-LmFmMeXbb89I5sdTLMsGTaNaBkcI-Y5IrrkoFlVSe0_fx29n3xpxqzX2MLoPPYWoCD3u-99Q_mZAN6aY2Q5gNI-3dAfQIE0XD5vud-jXY5GONCd9gzgXV0fRjka9cEZlrk1ieW0kN2yAuWnMlyFuJwA4tw3AYj7jMWysw/s4004/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20distribution%20(source%20NARA).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4004" data-original-width="2874" height="799" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0tyik6db1Ng-H9vya1dO-LmFmMeXbb89I5sdTLMsGTaNaBkcI-Y5IrrkoFlVSe0_fx29n3xpxqzX2MLoPPYWoCD3u-99Q_mZAN6aY2Q5gNI-3dAfQIE0XD5vud-jXY5GONCd9gzgXV0fRjka9cEZlrk1ieW0kN2yAuWnMlyFuJwA4tw3AYj7jMWysw/w574-h799/1938%20USSR%20Collective%20Farms%20distribution%20(source%20NARA).jpg" width="574" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>European USSR: Crops Percentage of Distribution, 1938 (wheat, vegetables, potatoes, forage crops, fibers, oilseeds, sugar beets, tobacco, spices, medicinal crops)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Source: NARA <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082071">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159082071</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>For additional maps like these, see the <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Qvy76WUz4orkaV28" target="_blank">photo collection here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300970409585045147.post-62392166807035226022022-10-01T12:30:00.004-07:002022-10-01T12:30:51.464-07:00Traveling with Texan GRs Through Time<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map-volgograd_astracan-1765/?y=50.3176&x=45.7021" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="2012" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiykYDV3klI9AHS4WgaVmg9wiFd-zrPMgCDTiWBLQi-IWtoL86jvDxuuOs2EERE_jkgrtTnHh_O0nRY9bO8_DWqqKjqM4ItisPvKXh4tubgLEsHEleedn53wLbbInPwmfSx_OahOIfgPHa8HlG9niBJtQWYv609IvfQe-NeQevxMnLDGhEZuQ-oSvNCGg/w640-h365/1.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map-volgograd_astracan-1765/?y=50.3176&x=45.7021" target="_blank">1765 map showing Dobrinka.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">I had a fun time last weekend traveling back in time with the members of the <a href="https://ntgfr.com/">North Texas Germans from Russia</a> AHSGR/GRHS duel chapter over Zoom. Several members offered up their ancestral colonies prior to the presentation, so I was able to customize it a bit for the group using the colonies to which they are connected.<br /> <br /> We divided our time between the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FGRAtlas-Kherson-province&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0vGmWuTIQnmMWspN3VTkgF" target="_blank">Kherson</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Saratov-province" target="_blank">Saratov</a> provinces. We wandered around some of the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FGRAtlas-Beresan-enclave&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1SyZ4gnQTrfvrZMxXhavYS" target="_blank">Glückstal colonies</a> (Glückstal, Neudorf, Bergdorf, Hoffnungstal), then went down to the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FGRAtlas-Kutschurgan-enclave&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3Rhc55RbUxLNs9ErqjETp4" target="_blank">Kutschurgan enclave</a> to visit the Mother colonies and a few of the Daughter colonies that were established by 1872 (Strassburg, Baden, Selz, Kandel, Elsass, Mannheim, Johannestal, Georgental, Nikolastal), and then on to a few of the Mothers and Daughters in the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FGRAtlas-Beresan-enclave&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1SyZ4gnQTrfvrZMxXhavYS" target="_blank">Beresan enclave</a> (Rohrbach, Waterloo, Speyer, Johannestal, Worms, Neu Klatscha, Neu Kandel, Uljanowka, Neufeld, Friedenheim, Neu Rohrbach). We went back and found the elusive Chutor Balitsky, which appeared on maps as its Russian name, Saratow. We popped in on Dobrinka circa 1765 over in the <a href="https://bit.ly/GRAtlas-Volga-enclave" target="_blank">Volga enclave</a>. That was fun. Then we went up to Neu Messer and checked out the neighbors in 1910 (Walter, Frank, Kolb, Neu Blazer, Neu Dönhof, Norka, Huck). We found that map's purpose was to show phosphorite deposits. Amazing what you learn when you zoom out.</p><div>We covered a lot of area and a lot of time, roughly between 1765 and 1954. It was about hour and a half well spent. <div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map-saratov_1910/?y=51.0542&x=45.1042" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1286" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRF5r1CMCAzOb2tuK-iIcl3F5h-Yu7aJObjvonYNWF_yww-UqPhDOXEMB_FcXOcoshR7m2GR4bWPEArJOX7xUQyYl1h7QJERSbqBkCNqpQFa3mKtt-uhScGHN5j5Tl7jKbC_DUI9wwlcYqYVVfBEXQI0iA5mPQg5gtkW48tmcVKtAoOoIhsg7wKFSAg/w640-h410/2.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etomesto.com/map-saratov_1910/?y=51.0542&x=45.1042" target="_blank">A few of the Mother and Daughter Volga colonies in 1910.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://retromap.ru/14195472_z12_47.196828,31.189842" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="1901" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiompxX81QDr0bpeKiMWdQnv8DzeHLJL442c7OcQfsSJbdp11QWS1u8V070PnQSqNiyvXKqZoP2M5FFn7kV-Awh_xJCfszh3oJU9C2EDteKqozs5wbIRXs5gCOV1Xa7P1RxHG0zajplKo8IUNfbN1__Tv9eexx8iy-yT2m7zPEge2puaW4wPH5YkF-aKQ/w640-h346/4.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://retromap.ru/14195472_z12_47.196828,31.189842" target="_blank">Some of the former Beresan colonies in 1954 after the German people who settled them were gone. </a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/russia-1872/?layers=here-aerial%2C14&bbox=3311968.328373527%2C5881780.81541087%2C3398647.9184489166%2C5915145.578257349" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1905" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhweNDvmx7mUj8-JoozpQwZzA1Of0JlHIV_H0zxkyG_OEis0Z-QKHp8rRixo1tuaOXfdZ7sQkaDo1oOGDwi4T0afKmdkGwhJ5628Ln1LKS6hhrjWjAAyjpxwjFpKMEmgqEWGWDcsmlyJiUrAAxXzXcuuGgUy1ygR3nfwa6hXdDHFnEnYr_NJ6gJoo3MAQ/w640-h274/3.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/russia-1872/?layers=here-aerial%2C14&bbox=3311968.328373527%2C5881780.81541087%2C3398647.9184489166%2C5915145.578257349" target="_blank">The Kutschurgan Mother colonies and a few Daughter colonies in 1872.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://retromap.ru/14194016_z13_47.5079,29.6335" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="1899" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5iXg30EglkhhS2mN82N7gnA6SbLDBit-kD81VhAtjUgB48d-65vNIEbY6i8YxtFLoBjBrY3hOqtvFe8OwPOo2FarMDsSRDHAOVwmJT0ZMO6uy-ClyeO1P6EhzmDnYsueeiSZMw-MepkyjH7wRkn8ELdtGEgOow9d1Y1u28EYRyg3ryMibNcsBfElSPA/w640-h330/5.png" width="640" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://retromap.ru/14194016_z13_47.5079,29.6335" target="_blank">Chutor Balitsky, aka Saratow, on a 1940 Red Army map.<br /><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"># # #</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div></div>Sandy Schilling Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06067670306023100048noreply@blogger.com