Table of Contents:

Glückstal Colonies Research Association Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1998


  • 1999 Conventions — p. 33

  • GCRA Books Available — p. 33

  • Glückstal 1858 Census [published by GCRA] — p. 33

  • Prairie Public Television Documentary [in process] — pp. 33-34

  • Ancestry Award [to: Odessa, A German-Russian Genealogical Library] — p. 34

  • Authenticated Origins [Anweiler, Bader, Balinger, Dieterle, Dompert, Ehly, Fauth, Ferber, Fochlinger, Gaub, Hillerich, Ihli, Kaz, Kraft, Lechner, Metzger, Permann, Pleines, Ritter, Rühle, Schäfer, Schlichter, Schnürle, Scholl, Steinhauer & Wittich], by Gwen Pritzkau — pp. 34-35

  • Homeland Visit: Odessa & [Wishek], North Dakota 1998, by Carol (Just) Halverson — pp. 35-36

  • Lehr and Wishek [Centennials] 1998, from The Wishek Star, 1 July 1998, p. 8 — pp. 36-37

  • Ruff Connections and Disconnections, by Ralph Ruff — pp. 37-38

  • Kassel Flood Damage of 1830, extracted and translated from Odessa, Ukraine. State Archives of the Odessa Region, File ? [# not given] — pp. 38-39

  • Journeyman Report extracted and translated from Odessa, Ukraine. State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 252-1-917 — p. 39

  • Dr. Flemmer of Neudorf, extracted & translated from Deutsche Post aus dem Osten, Feb/Mar 1939, by Margaret Freeman — pp. 39-40

  • Odessa Orphanage [report of visit], by Michael Miller — pp. 40-41

  • Letter from [widow M. Laitenberger, of] Bergdorf, 11 June 1921, translated from Eureka Rundschau, 25 August 1921, p. 3, by Elli Wise — p. 41

  • Soviet Records [of persons arrested in eastern Germany in 1945, being turned over to the German Red Cross] — p. 41

  • Special Thanks — pp. 41-43

  • Impressions and Experiences in the New Field of Labor in Glückstal [compiled in 1939 by his daughter Anna from notes by Pastor M. F. Schrenk, Sep.1880], introduction and translation by Allyn Brosz — pp. 44-45

  • Mathilde Schrenk [obituary, 1939], translated by Margaret Freeman — p. 45

  • German Language Newspapers, by Michael Rempfer — pp. 45-46

  • News from Germany [re: research on the Germans from Russia] — p. 46

  • Letter from [Neudorf] South Russia [13 Oct. 1915], translated from Eureka Rundschau, 46 December 1915, p. 6, by Michael Rempfer — pp. 46-48

  • Oldest Glückstal Descendant [Anna Aman, 98] — p. 48

  • Recent Purchases — pp. 48-49

  • Reunions — p. 49

  • Glückstal Family Newsletter [Raile family] — p. 49

  • Queries — p. 49

  • Conventions in the Year 2000 — p. 50

  • Glückstal Projects and Researchers [by village and other areas] — p. 50

  • McPherson County, SD, Declarations of Intent, extracted by Loretta Neuhardt, & Marvin and Leona Warns — pp. 51-63

  • [Surname] Index — pp. 63-64


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