Mennonite Genealogy Data Index: Russia

Russia

Revision Lists/Censuses relevant to periods when Mennonites lived in Russia:
5th Revision: 1794-1808
6th Revision: 1811-12
7th Revision: 1815-25
8th Revision: 1833-35
9th Revision: 1850-52
10th Revision: 1857-59
Census: 1897
Source: Kahilie Mehr, FEEFHS

Geographic Aids - please download Google Earth file (kmz) for Mennonite communities in Europe & Asia - MHSA
Maps and Historical Notes related to Mennonite History - Wm Schroeder

Berislav - Map MHSA
Report on Population Count and Property in the Village Municipalities of the Nikolaipol Volost, 1908 MMHS
Report on Population Count and Property in the Village Municipalities of the Malyschin Volost, 1908 MMHS
Report on Population Count and Property in the Village Municipalities of the Welikoknyechesk Volost, 1908 MMHS
East Crimea - Map MHSA
Ekaterinoslav - Map MHSA
Forstei List, 1908 Michael Penner
Odessa - Map MHSA
West Crimea - Map MHSA
Internal Movement of Mennonites in Russia: 1848 MMHS
Migrants through Grodno,1803-04 MMHS
Russia Record Index - names of Hutterites from early 1700s to 1874 Forest River Community
Revised Surname Index to BH Unruh's Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert MHSA
Former Chortitza Settlement Residents, 1852 MMHS
Stalin's Victims, Neu Samara - Dietrich Tiessen
Mennonites in the Forestry Service, 1908 - Michael Penner
Inventory of archived files in Odessa State Archives for the Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia, 1840-1841

Cities, towns, & villages

The following list of village reports found in the Odessa Library may be for villages in Chortitza, Molotschna or other colonies. It is not possible to determine from the transcriptions available online which colony they are associated with. Multiple transcriptions below for a particular village are not a webeditor error - village names are reused and in some lists the focus is on family while in others it is on marriages (determined here by the symbol in front of the link).

Adelsheim - Odessa Library
Alexanderfeld - Odessa Library
Alexanderkrone - Odessa Library
Altonau - Odessa Library
Blumenfeld - Odessa Library
Blumenfeld - Odessa Library
Blumengart - Odessa Library
Blumenort - Odessa Library
Burwalde - Odessa Library
Chortitza - Odessa Library
Einlage - Odessa Library
Felsenbach - Odessa Library
Franzfeld - Odessa Library
Felsenbach - Odessa Library
Friedensfeld - Odessa Library
Friedensfeld - Odessa Library
Friedensfeld - Odessa Library
Friesendorf - Odessa Library
Friesendorf - Odessa Library
Gradental - Odessa Library
Gnadental - Odessa Library
Gruenfeld - Odessa Library
Gruenfeld - Odessa Library
Heuboden - Odessa Library
Heuboden - Odessa Library
Hochfeld - Odessa Library
Hochfeld - Odessa Library
Katarinowka - Odessa Library
Kronstal - Odessa Library
Kronsweide - Odessa Library
Muensterberg - Odessa Library
Muensterberg - Odessa Library
Neuhorst - Odessa Library
Neu-Chortitza - Odessa Library
Neu-Halbstadt - Odessa Library
Neu-Schoensee - Odessa Library
Nikolaifeld - Odessa Library
Nikolaifeld - Odessa Library
Nikopol - Odessa Library
Neuenburg - Odessa Library
Neuendorf - Odessa Library
Orloff - Odessa Library
Osterwick - Odessa Library
Reinfeld - Odessa Library
Rosengart - Odessa Library
Rosenort - Odessa Library
Rosenort - Odessa Library
Rotfeld - Odessa Library
Schoenau - Odessa Library
Schoeneberg - Odessa Library
Shoenhorst - Odessa Library
Steinau - Odessa Library
Steinfeld - Odessa Library
Steinfeld - Odessa Library
Steinfeld - Odessa Library
Steinfeld - Odessa Library
Tiege - Odessa Library
unnamed villages(scroll to "not given" section) - Odessa Library

Alexanderthal, Samara church leaders MMHS
Aliessovo, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Am Trakt Colony (settlers of 1855-1856) FEEFHS

Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, 1843-1876 - HSHS - Order from JR Solutions
Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, 1843-1876 - HSHS - Order from JR Solutions
Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, 1843-1876 - HSHS - Order from JR Solutions
Bergtal, Bergtal Colony, 1848 village history OdessaLib
Bergthal, Bergthal Colony (in Russian) MHC

Caucasus, 1868, p. 391 BHU
Chortitza (No. 1), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Deutsch-Michalin (Volhynia) MMHS
Deevka (No. 5), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Dobrovka (No. 11), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Dolinovka (No. 9), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Deyevka, Orenburg Church Records - TBA
Deyevka, Orenburg Church Records - TBA
Deyevka, Orenburg Church Records - TBA
Drive through Dolinsk by Johann Funk (Warendorf, 2002; 58.8 mb - Dietrich Tiessen

Fedorovka (No. 7), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Felsenbach, Borozenko Colony MMHS
Felsenbach, Borozenko Colony church records MMHS
Felsenbach, Borozenko Colony MMHS

Friedrichsthal, Bergthal Colon (in Russian), MHC

Heinrichsdorf Church Records FPC film
Heinrichsdorf Church Records FPC film
Heinrichsdorf Church Records FPC film

Heuboden, Bergthal Colony (in Russian)MHC

Kamenka (No. 4), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Kamyschovoye, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Kanzerovka (No. 3), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Karaguy, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Koeppenthal, Saratov church leaders MMHS
Kuban Colony Census, 1869, MHSA
Kuban Colony, Families Planning to settle 1864 MHSA
Kuban Colony, Families, 1866, MHSA

Lyubimovka, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Milorodovka, 1897 MHBC

Neu Samara - see Samara
Nikolayevka (No. 6), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Orenburg, 1917 TBA - data being acquired; not yet published
Orloff, Zagradovka, in Into the Past by Rudy P. Friesen, order from JR Solutions
Ostrog area, Volhynia, 1819 MMHS

Petrovka, Naumenko Colony, 1897 MHBC
Petrovka (No. 2), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Pogornoye, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Pretoria (No. 14), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Pretoria, Orenburg Church Records - TBA
Pretoria, Orenburg Church Records - TBA
Pretoria, Orenburg Church Records - TBA

Rodnitchnoye (No.10), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Romanovka (No.8), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Sabangul, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Neu Samara am Tock: 1890-2003 (pdf) - not for commercial use without permission. Published first in 1964 by Neu-Samarians who emigrated in 1920s to Canada; republished now with detail for the years after 1930 by a committee in Warendorf, Germany - Dietrich Tiessen
Stalin's Victims, Neu Samara - Dietrich Tiessen
Schoenfeld, Bergthal Colony (in Russian) MHC
Selonoye, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Stepanovka, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF
Suvorovka (No.13), Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Tschornoye Osero, Orenburg, 1923 Census - R-DF

Vassilyevka, Naumenko Colony, 1897 MHBC

Zagradovka, Cherson District (Ohrloff Volost, Tiege Parish) & Molotschna Colony church leaders MMHS