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Subject: [RUS-SARATOV-SCHILLING] Getting research done in the RussianArchives
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:21:07 -0500

For any of you that don't subscribe to the Ger-Volga mailing list, the
following message went to that mailing list last night.

The records for Dobrinka and Galka are at Volgograd. The records for
Schilling are at Engels.

If you have any questions, let me know and I'll either answer them or get an
answer.

Gary Martens
Dobrinka & Schilling Villages VC

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I have prepared a web page which has information on getting research done
in the Russian Archives:
http://www.dobrinka.org/archives/

There is information there on what is contained in the archives, and what
records (by village name) are stored at the Engels and Volgograd Archives.
What's not listed is generally at the Saratov Archive. There may be some
additional records at Engels and Volgograd.

The records which may not be available are church records for some of the
newer and more remote daughter colonies. In some cases records have
not been found, or were never recorded. Census records, as far as is
known, where last taken in 1857 or 1858. It appears that a census was not
taken in those years for daughter colonies founded in 1855 or later. Also,
church records for some villages are not all continuous, they do not start
when the village was founded, or they do not go into the early 1900's.

On my web page, the information for Mila Koretnikova for Volgograd isn't
available, but will be within the next 2 or 3 days, as soon as she verifys the
cost of getting records from Volgograd. The prices for research at
Volgograd are considerably cheaper than research at Saratov.

Her sister is in the process of trying to get access to the Engels Archive, and
if that happens, I will add that information to the web site.

Mila and her sister can obtain copies of church records, and copies of
census records for a surname. Mila can provide translation service, as
indicated on the information page. This service will be much faster than
current services available, with records usually delivered in 2 to 3 months,
depending on how fast the archives delivers the records to Mila's sister.

Get in touch with me if you are interested in the service Mila provides for
getting records from the Russian Archives.

Gary Martens
Dobrinka & Schilling Villages VC

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