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Genealogy and local history

  • Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society 
    A Canadian website, deals with history of Mennonites. There is many genealogical information on West Prussia, Molotschna and Chortitza.
  • Willi Vogt. Mennonite Genealogical Research
    A German website, deals with history of Chortitza. There are maps of almost each village in Chortitza. Author's main focus is collecting and publishing of genealogical sources on Chortitza and Yazykovo. He has already data of more then 11,000 persons.
  • Family Research For Russia-German Ancestor Searching
    This German website is planed as help for Russia-German ancestor searching. At the moment there is only information on Orenburg colony, called also Dejewka colony, which was about 50-60 km east of Neu Samara. When they were founded, the colonies belonged to different administrative units. Only since 1934 both belong to Orenburg province.
  • Auf Augenhöhe
    Homepage of exposition "Auf Augenhöhe - Deutsche aus Russland zwischen Hoffnung und Vorurteil" - "At Eye Level - Germans from Russia between Hope and Prejudice", 15th July - 30th October 2005 in Paderborn and Schloss Neuhaus. Dietrich Tissen, one of the authors of Neu Samara web site, took part on making of this web site.
  • Shdanowka
    A private  German web site by David Krahn about Shdanowka, a village from the Orenburg colony.
  • Kitschkas
    A German web site about Kitschkas, an other village from the Orenburg colony.
  • Iwanowka
    A private German web site by Waldemar Penner about the Mennonite village of Iwanowka in Westsibiria, 120 km west of Omsk.
  • Leninpol
    A forum of Leninpol , a Mennonite settlement in Kyrgyzstan. The settlement was founded in 1882 in Talas-valley. Today it's also called Bakaj-Ata. The forum language is Russian and shall bring all former inahbitants of Leninpol together.There are two further web sites of Leninpol in German language: http://www.leninpol.de und http://www.leninpol.net. At the moment they are only in the founding stage.
  • Grischkowka
    Web site by Andrej Warkentin about his home village Grischkowka in Altay , part of the Mennonite Settlement Slavgorod, founded at the beginning of 20th century. Today Grischkowka and nearby German villages belong to to a German district with capital Halbstadt. The author lives in Grischkowka and is our contemporary. It's absolutly impressing how much material he has collected. We recommend to visit this web site if you can read Russian. A small German version is planned.
  • Orlowo
    Web site by Eugen Peters about Orlowo (in German), a further village of the Mennonite Settlement Slavgorod, founded at the beginning of 20th century. Among other there is a photo collection.
  • Photos of Mennonites in Bolivia by Jordi Busqué

Plautdietsch

  • Plautdietsch Freunde e.V.
    The official homepage of Plautdietsch Friends Society:
    Plautdietsch-Freunde e.V. was founded in Oerlinghausen, Germany, in 1999, with the goal of documenting, nurturing, and promoting the Plautdietsch language. Plautdietsch is a West Prussian variety of Low German which emerged approximately 450 years ago in the Vistula delta area of what is now Poland. Speakers of Plautdietsch who emigrated from Western Prussia through Southern Russia (present-day Ukraine), and who now live in Germany, Canada, Paraguay, and other parts of the world, are also known as "Russian Mennonites." Through its web resources and its journal Plautdietsch Frind, Plautdietsch-Freunde offers an international forum for all those who speak, read, write, or simply have an interest in the language.
  • Opplautdietsch
    A private  German web site by Viktor Sawatzki - "Viktor, von Sewen" - mainly in Plautdietsch, with an extensive collection of Plautdietsch poems, among others by Heinrich Dück too.
  • Plautcast
    created by Ken Sawatzky and Vern Neufeld from Winnipeg Canada. Plautcast is a 15-20 minute Low-German audio show presenting Low-German songs, commentaries, readings from the CD Koop and Bua, and also contributions from our listeners.

Encyclopedias

  • GAMEO
    Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, provides reliable, freely-available English-language information on Anabaptist-related congregations, denominations, conferences, institutions and significant individuals, as well as historical and theological topics. Secular subject articles from an Anabaptist perspective and full-text source documents are also included.
  • Wikipedia
    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. There are already some articles on Mennonites.