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Black Sea German Research. - Welcome! Search our website using G o o g l e ™ : Our ancestors' historic and often perilous migratory journey in the early 1800s took them from their homes in Germany, Alsace, Poland, and Hungary to the Black Sea region of South Russia (now Ukraine).
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The Black Sea Germans were ethnic Germans who left Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries and settled in South Russia, near the north coast of the Black Sea. Germans began settling in the Black Sea area as early as the late 18th century, however, the large majority of Black Sea Germans arrived following Tsar Alexander I's invitation in 1804. The Bl...
In order to access published records and indexes for Black Sea Germans, you must first understand a bit about where your ancestral hometown was located and which religious and political jurisdictions existed at the time that your ancestor lived there. These jurisdictions play an important role in record keeping and preservation. To learn about how ...
Published records and indexes are a wonderful resource, however, looking at the original record can often provide more information than the indexed version. And in some cases, records available online have not yet been indexed and it may be several years before they are indexed. For these reasons, you should always refer to original records.
In South Russia Our German ancestors began arriving in the Black Sea region, known as South Russia, in the early 1800s at the invitation of Tsar Alexander I. They lived there for almost 150 years, mostly in rural villages, fiercely holding onto their German identity.
Other settlers from the Black Sea were Russian Mennonites and Hutterites, as well as Dobrujan Germans who had briefly lived in southeastern Romania. By 1920, an estimated 70,000 Germans from Russia lived in North Dakota, most of them were Black Sea Germans, in addition to Volga Germans.
24. Nov. 2023 · (updated 24 Nov 2023) The Germans from Russia Settlement Locations map is a map of all known places where ethnic Germans lived in the Russian Empire and the subsequent Soviet states.
3. März 2024 · Black Sea German Research – A free, volunteer-run website that is focused entirely on the Black Sea Germans of South Russia. They have a vast library of documents, translations, photos, maps, as well as a genealogy database comprised of donated GEDCOMs and indexes of EWZ files, town books, and much of the Dale Wahl collection. The ...
1. Nov. 2016 · Learn about the German-Russian genealogical collection and maps of the Black Sea area on this website. It is a tribute to Dale Wahl, a pioneer of Odessa3.org, and a resource for researchers.
