Table of Contents:

Glückstal Colonies Research Association Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002


  • GCRA Places Monument in Glückstal — p. 1

  • Conventions in the Year 2002 — p. 1

  • Glückstal Bicentennial Project — p. 2

  • Picture & Document Scanning at Bismarck — p. 2

  • Bicentennial Project Honor Roll — pp. 2-3

  • Glückstal 1836 Parishes and Pastors [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 6-1-4450], translated by Serge Yelizarov — pp. 3-5

  • Fairfax Advertiser [SD – extractions from 1938], by Dianne Ladd — pp. 5-6

  • Bernadine (Lang) Kuhn [featured in] Recipes from Grandma’s Kitchen — p. 6

  • Resettling from Alt-Kassel to Neu-Kassel, 1842 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 6-1- 6801a], translated by Serge Yelizarov — pp. 6-7

  • Hunspach, Alsace, Residents, 1770, from Elaine Morrison — pp. 7-8

  • Rott Data, from Ron Rott — p. 9

  • Movement of Colonists, 1844 [State Archives of the Odessa Region, File 6-1-7898], translated by Serge Yelizarov — pp. 9-11

  • Long Range Assistance, from GRHC — pp. 11-12

  • In Memoriam — p. 12

  • Who Was Missler? by Allyn Brosz — p. 12

  • North Dakota Citizenship Naturalizations, extracted by Phyliss Pearce — pp. 12-13

  • Germans from Russia Returnees [to Germany], by Horst W. Gutsche — p. 13

  • Lutheran Church in Moldova, report from Pastor Vladimir Moser of Moldova — pp. 13-14

  • More Meier Points of Origin, by Thomas A. Stangl — pp. 14-17

  • Balthasar Lauth, from Göcklingen, Landau, Pfalz - Kassel Colonist, by Thomas A. Stangl — pp. 17- 18

  • Notes on the Personnen Buch Numbers, by Thomas A. Stangl — p. 18

  • Heritage Review [articles by Michael Rempfer] — p. 18

  • Iron Crosses in McPherson County, SD, by Edmund Opp — p. 18

  • Herb Poppke’s Trip to Ukraine 1993— p.19

  • Christiana (Trefz) Meier, excerpted from The Adventist Review, 30 June - 18 August 1994. by Lynn Fauth — pp. 19-24

  • Purchases — p. 24

  • Special Thanks — pp. 24-25

  • South Dakota Historical Society [memberships] — p. 25

  • Maps of South Russia [available from GRHC] — pp. 25-26

  • Corrections — p. 26

  • Discharge Billet [of John Voegele, 1885], from Elaine (Voegele) Gray — p. 26

  • The Schott Family of Neudorf, by Carolyn Schott — pp. 26-27

  • Descendants of Philipp Jakob Schott of Osthofen and Neudorf, researched by Carolyn Schott — pp. 27-30

  • Glückstal Projects and Researchers [by village & other areas] — pp. 30-31

  • Bicentennial Workshop Inspects SOAR CD Discs — p. 31

  • Index of Family Names — pp. 31-32


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