TO: Krasna ResearchersFROM:
Ted J. Becker and Rosemary (Mack) Ternes
Village Research Co-Coordinators
Krasna,
Emmental,
Karamurat, DATE:
Winter 2004 - 2005 Great News!
Rosemary has completed the transfer of the English translations of the
diocesan church records, which we acquired from the Saratov State Archive in
Saratov, Russia, into two files in the computer, 1) in the Microsoft Word
program, and 2) in the Word Perfect program. Further, she has placed all of the
church records (English translations), which we have acquired over the years,
onto CD’s. Therefore, we can now
offer to researchers on CD, -
All church and civil records we have acquired
for Krasna and Emmental; or -
Just the diocesan church records from the
CD “A” The diocesan church records (in English
translation) from the Saratov archive consist of the following, and are
available on this one CD in the Microsoft Word program only: -
1851-1897 Krasna
Births/Baptisms -
1851-1899 Kasna Marriages -
1851-1899 Krasna Deaths -
1900-1915 Krasna
Births/Baptisms -
1900-1914 Krasna Marriages -
1900-1916 Krasna Deaths We cannot vouch for the completeness of these
records. As mentioned in a previous
newsletter, these records are not extracted from the original church records for
Krasna. They are, rather,
extractions from diocesan church books, which were held at the Roman Catholic
diocesan office in CD “B” ALL church and civil records
(in English translation) we have acquired over the years, for Krasna and
Emmental, consist of the following, and available on this one CD in either
program, Microsoft Word or Word perfect: -
All of the extracted records from the
-
1814-1837 Krasna Births/Baptisms (A-L)
(L-Z) -
1836, 1839, 1840, 1846, & 1847 Krasna
Births/Marriages/Deaths (civil) -
1835 Krasna Auditing Register (Census)
(civil) -
1850 Krasna Census (civil) -
1918-1938 Krasna Births/Baptisms (A-C) (D-H)
(H-K) (K-M) (M-R) (R-S) (S-T) (T-Z) -
1918-1938 Krasna Marriages (A-M
(N-Z) -
1918-1939 Krasna Deaths (A-K
(L-Z) -
1889-1896 Emmental
Births/Baptisms -
1919-1937 Emmental
Birth/Baptisms -
1886-1893 Emmental Deaths The cost for CD “A” is $90.00
Ted J.
Becker
If you have questions about the records on these CD’s or
about the records themselves, contact Ted at the address above, or at his e-mail
addresses, which are
or His telephone number is 701-572-5715. It has taken us about 17 years to acquire copies of all of
the above records. When Rosemary
and I first started this “labor of love”, which we call “The Krasna Project”, we
did not know if any civil or church records existed for these villages of
Krasna, Emmental and Karamurat.
So, we have come a long way since we first started. We feel that the time and effort, not to
speak of the money involved to acquire these invaluable records, have been well
spent. No one can take these
records away from you and me.
Further, they are available for all researchers, present and future. Over the years you have heard us speak so often of the
“Krasna Master Census, 1814-1940”.
This is the database we have been developing. Actually, Rosemary has been developing
it. I have worked to find and
acquire records for our villages.
She extracts data and information from them and inputs them into the
database. As we have mentioned
before, the Krasna Master Census, 1814-1940, database is in the Personal
Ancestral File program. The program
can produce a number of charts, charts, which can show family groups,
descendants, pedigrees, and the like.
Some of you have received from us various charts it can produce. We still offer to produce charts for you
if you wish. Feel free to contact
Ted if you like to have any chart produced for you. Several researchers have asked if they
might purchase from us the entire database, which we call “Krasna Master Census,
1814-1940”. We have not made the
entire database available to anyone because we continue to add new data and also
tie unattached people into their appropriate family groups. Thus, this database is still a
work-in-progress. Furthermore, if
it were made available to researchers at this time, it would be incomplete
tomorrow, as we find new data and information, often daily. Sybille and Ambrose Leinz recently finished translating
into English the over 800 articles and letters to the editor Ted extracted from
the Der Staats Anzeiger newspaper for the years 1909 through 1932. “Thank you” doesn’t even begin to
express our gratitude to them for this massive project. We just say “Thank you!” to them. They have said to us, “Our help is our
way of helping the larger effort of preserving our Krasna heritage.” Ambrose was born in Krasna and has taken
a special interest in them, for he knew some of the people mentioned in
them. These articles and letters
are associated with Krasna, Emmental, Karamurat, as well as the towns and
villages in which the Krasnaers’, Emmentalers’, and Karamuraters’ relatives and
descendants lived in far-flung regions of the world. These regions are the
Word has come to me from George Dorscher, newsletter
editor of The Alberta Chapter of the Germans from Russia Heritage Society, of
two web sites on the Internet that might be of interest to Krasna
researchers. One of them is a web
site, which houses a project “whereby the
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/ He points out that two volumes of
the history of You may wish to view our Krasna web site. It can be found at We have added an updated inventory of the Krasna
Library. The Krasna Library
contains books, booklets, primary documents, copies of primary documents,
microfilmed copies of primary documents, etc. In one way or another, these materials
reference Krasna, Emmental, and Karamurat in some way. We have expanded several sections
in the inventory to better describe some of the materials in the Krasna
Library. We wish that those Krasna researchers who do not have
computers would also contact Ted if they have an interest in accessing the
materials mentioned above. If
you feel that you might want copies of any of the above, feel free to contact
Ted. We can work out something so
that all of the Krasna records can be made available to you as well. Also, as we have mentioned on occasion,
if any of you might want from us printouts from the “Krasna Master Census,
1814-1940”, just contact Ted. We do
not want any Krasna researcher to feel that he/she is being left behind just
because he/she does not own a computer.
After all, the work Rosemary and Ted have been doing these past 17+ years
is really meant to be available to all of you and of help with your
research. If the photos in the Krasna Photo Collection are of
interest to you, be reminded that we have developed an index of the
collection. This index lists all
people who are in the 4,700+ photos.
For you computer users, the program into which we placed the index is
Microsoft Excel. Rosemary assures
me that there are other programs, which are compatible with the Excel program,
so that if you want the index of the photo collection, we would be happy to
share it with you. For those of you
who do not have computers, we would also be happy to print the index for
you. There are about 175 pages to
the index, thus it is not small by any means. However, we still would be happy to
accommodate your wish to have a copy.
Please contact Ted if you are interested. $15.00
The Fox Valley/Liebenthal History Book Committee of
Charlie Miller of the USA has shared with Ted photos and
historical materials for the people and the area around Raleigh, Grant County,
North Dakota, USA, over the years.
His knowledge about the people and the area is vast, to say the
least. His memory about them
recalls so many details about them and their lives. His passion for the gathering and
preservation of our common Krasna roots in that are runs deep. As most of you may know, the
Ted, Ambrose Leinz and Joann (Erker) Baroh will definitely
join Bob Schneider of Schneider Tours of Spearfish, South Dakota, USA, in
May/June 2005 for a “pilgrimage”
(to use June McDonald’s word) to Krasnoe/Krasna, and visits to other former
German villages around Odessa, Nikolaiev and the Crimea region. To walk the streets of Krasnoe/Krasna
with Ambrose will be a very special time for us. We will spend three days in
Krasnoe/Krasna. No doubt this time
will seem too short, but we will relish these special times. After the time in
Recently, one of Ted’s relatives shared with him a video,
which he had made of an old 8 mm film that he had since he was young. It is a film of some of the resettlers
who returned to
Peace. |