Table of Contents:

Glückstal Colonies Research Association Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2000


  • New Book: Marienberg: Fate of a Village — pp.1-2

  • New Video: Schmeckfest — p. 3

  • Book Review: Odessa Martyrology, by Harold Ehrman — pp. 3-10

  • Albrecht and Hering/Goehring, 1819-1821 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 242-1-236], translated by Karl Hoffmann — pp. 11-12

  • Haas, Jutzy & Getz, 1830-1832 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 252-1-1016], translated by Natalie & Boris Moser — p. 12

  • Authenticated Origins [Deuring, Haller, Merkel, Nafzger, Meyer], by Gwen Pritzkau & Ross Merkel — pp. 12-13

  • Bergdorf News, 1910 [Letter from Wilhelm Rall, in Dakota Freie Presse, 12 May 1910, p. 9], translated by Michael Rempfer — p. 13

  • Lang & Adelmann, 1810-1814 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 252-1-16], translated by Natalie and Boris Moser — pp. 13-14

  • Wild-Mayer Marriage [no date given - State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 252-1-46] translated by Ross Merkel — p. 14

  • Gross [Hertha] of Pierre [GRHS] Chapter [presents 10th anniversary history] — p. 14

  • Memories of Salem Emmanuel Lutheran, Long Lake, SD, by Virginia Fischer Rath — p. 15

  • 1892 Arrivals in Eureka — p. 15

  • Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg [passenger lists of 1890-1892 available] — p. 15

  • Gross [Martin & Christina (Bieber)] Golden Wedding, from Dakota Freie Presse, 14 Sep. 1930, translated by Margaret Freeman — pp. 15-16

  • Glückstal-Arcis Relationship [extracted from the Arcis Family Book, 1861-1880] by Ross Merkel — pp. 16-17

  • Glückstal-Brienne Relationship [extracted from the Brienne Family Book, 1841-1860] by Ross Merkel — pp. 17-19

  • Glückstal News of 1908 [25 July - letter from Die Eureka Post, 10 Sep. 1908, p. 4], translated by Michael Remper — p. 19

  • Kassel News of 1910 [1 Feb. 1910 Letter from Philipp Heupel in Dakota Freie Presse, 24 Mar. 1910, p. 9], translated by Michael Rempfer — pp. 19-20

  • Meidingers of Neipperg, Germany, by Richard Herr — pp. 20-22

  • Relief Sent to Colonists by Their Dakota Relatives - 1920s, by Janice (Huber) Stangl — p. 22

  • Special Thanks — pp. 23-24

  • Tracing Your Dakota Roots, review — p. 24

  • Historical Anecdotes, from Harper’s Weekly of 1890 — p. 24

  • Reunions and Centennials — pp. 24-25

  • Odessa Court Session, 17 June 1996, report by Victor Goehring — pp. 25-26

  • In Memoriam — p. 26

  • Village Maps Available [from GRHC] — pp. 26-27

  • Bundestreffen 2000 Cancelled, abstracted by Alice Morgenstern, Munich, Germany — p. 27

  • Internet Genealogy Progress, by Joy Fisher — p. 27

  • Strobel-Maier Information, 1862 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File # not given], by Della Strobel Bennett — pp. 27-28

  • Rosin Information, 1912 Kassel Births [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File # not given], from Phyllis Pearce — p. 28

  • Video: Children of the Steppes — p. 28

  • Neu-Glückstal, Odessa Book, by Richard H. Walth — p. 28

  • Bergdorfers [pictured] in Kazakhstan in 1953, from Pauline (Obenauer) Hoffman of Germany — p. 29

  • List of Arrests in Bergdorf in 1937-38, from Gary Maier — pp. 30-31

  • Davison County, SD, Naturalizations, extracted by Pat Dunn — pp. 31-33

  • South Dakota Basketball, by Allyn Brosz — p. 33

  • Die Eureka Rundschau Letters Index, by Curt Renz — pp. 33-37

  • Records of Land Ownership, by Herbert Thurn — pp. 37-38

  • Glückstal Projects and Researchers [by village and other areas] — p. 38

  • Conventions in the Year 2000 — p. 39

  • [Surname] Index — pp. 39-40


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