To: Krasna Researchers
From: Ted J. Becker
and Rosemary (Ternes) Mack
(Krasna Village
Research Co-Coordinators)
(Emmental Village
Research Co-Coordinators)
(Karamurat Village
Research Co-Coordinators)
Date: Fall/Winter
2002
A new book about Krasna, Emmental,
Balmas and Larga has recently been released in Germany. It is entitled Erinneerungen an Bessarbbien 60 Jahre nach
der Umsiedlung (Memories of Bessarabia, 60 years after the Resettlement).
It has been produced by the Landsmannschaft der Bessarabiendeutschen
Rheinland-Pfalz, e.V., with a forward by its director Alex Hein. The book has
been published in German. It contains 285 pages in a paperback edition. It is a
compilation of articles taken from other publications. They are about the
history and heritage of Krasna, Emmental, Balmas and Larga. If any of you would
like to help pay to get the book translated into English, your help would be
GREATLY appreciated. Send your financial help to Ted J. Becker, P.O. Box
1524, Williston, ND 58802-1524 USA.
An English translation would be a welcome addition to the Krasna
Library. If you would like to order a copy of the German edition from the
Landsmannschaft, let Ted know and he’ll send you the address of the
Landsmannschaft.
A web site of interest is
one in which the Alberta, Canada, Heritage Digitization Project can be found.
The site is www.alberta2005.org
The site will eventually digitize about 15,000 local history books from
across Canada. The site is very user friendly. Actual pages of books are given
on the site. In addition to local histories, early newspapers, maps, aerial
photographs, art, legal documents and Alberta folklore can be found in this
site.
Two other web sites of
interest are
Canadian National Archives www.archives.ca
U.S. National Archives
www.nara.gov/genealogy/gemindex.html#online
Recently we received copies
of extracts from church books, which are part of the Tiraspol Consistory of
Roman Catholic church documents. They consist of births/baptisms, marriages and
deaths for Krasna, Bessarabia, Russia for the years 1913, 1914 and 1916. The
final cost for these 41 pages of copies was $945.00. We are now waiting for
similar copies of church documents for the years 1850 to 1860 from this same
archive. It is hard to say when these copies will arrive. It took about 14 months to get the 41 pages
of documents. An interesting note! The
cost of making photocopies of documents in the archive is $5.00 per page, U.S.
funds! (Costs for acquiring copies of documents in the former USSR are going
through the ceiling.) The archive in which the Tiraspol Consistory documents
are located is the Saratov Sate Archive in Saratov, Russia. It is estimated
that the copies of the 1850 to 1860 church documents will cost about $1,200.00.
It goes without saying that any financial support you could give us would be
GREATLY appreciated. The Krasna Records Acquisition Fund does not have quite
enough money to pay for these copies. Could you help?
U. S. Federal Censuses 1790 to 1920
These censuses are now on
line and head of household indexes are in production for the years 1840 to 1880
and 1900 to 1930. For more information go to
Click on “U.S. Census
Records”. Heritage Quest magazine has
put all 12,555 rolls of the U.S. Federal Censuses on CD’s. They are available
now. Information is available at
The Minnesota Historical
Society (USA) has posted an index of death certificates from 1908 to 1966 on
line. You can search by name, year or county of death at
Click on “Search.cfm”
To find out
what records are available in the state of South Dakota, USA, go to
http
//www.state.sd.us/
In the “Search this site”
box type in “genealogy”. This web site lists, county by county, records
available locally as well as contact information.
The Germans from Russia
Heritage Society of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, has a new web site. It is
http//delta.cs.vt.edu/grhs/ You might want to check it out. The Society has
“upgraded and updated” its web site to better serve the needs of interested
parties as well as researchers. Some sections of the site are available only to
members of the Society via passwords. However, one of the many interesting
sections in the web site is the section, which lists the names of the articles,
which have been published in the Society’s quarterly publication Heritage Review, which began publication
in 1971, and is still being published. Ted is the current editor.
A web site of great interest
to Roman Catholics is “Catholic Church History and Genealogy Research Guide”
http://home.att.net/~LocaICatholic/
This site gives contact
information for respective churches and some cemeteries throughout the world.
Note that some small churches have only one parish priest who ministers to
members in several different main and mission parishes. Doing genealogy
research in their church records is not their main responsibility. Reasonable
financial donations to cover their time and respective copies would be of help
to them.
The official web site for
the services offered by state government of the state of North Dakota, USA, go
to
Click on “Help and FAQ”.
Then click on “Index” Contact information plus respective e-mail addresses,
snail mail addresses, phone numbers, etc., can be found on this web site.
Information about naturalization/citizenship records, death/marriage
certificates, etc., is available on this site.
Hamburg Emigration Records. The Hamburg emigration
records are being made available on the following web site:
h ttp://www.hamburg.de/fhh/behoerden/staatsarchiv/link_to_you_roots/english/start.htm
Thus far the years 1890 to
1900 are available to be searched. There is a fee for the search for and
acquisition of copies of records. For 1-3 copies the fee is 22 Euros or U.S. dollars, payable either by
check or credit card. The archive is working to make further years available.
Recently Ted completed an
index of the Krasna Photo Collection. This was quite a task. There are over
4,000 photos of people and places associated with Krasna, Emmental and
Karamurat. The Microsoft Excel program was used for the index. The index is
arranged by surname/married name, given
name, maiden name, second husband’s surname, photo album number, page number in
photo album and basic genealogical data of the individual or general
description of the place associated with Krasna, Emmental or Karamurat. If you
would like a copy of this index on disc, please let Ted know and he will send
you a copy - $5.00 U.S. funds. Further, if you would like a copy of any photo,
just contact Ted. There may be some small copying and mailing costs. He is not
yet capable of sending photos over the Internet. Someday he would like to scan
the photos and save them to CD-Rom. Hopefully he will live long enough to do
that! Retirement has proven to be busier for him than when he was employed!
Peace to you. God bless you.