Finding Aids

1. Weblinks

   December 10, 2015 11:40 am Comments Off on Weblinks

    

   • Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry
   • Centre for Mennonite Brethern Studies
   • Der Bote Obituaries
   • Genetics and Genealogy at MHSA
   • Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO)
   • Grandma Purchase Online
   • Doukhobor Genealogy
   • Mennonite Genealogical Data Index – Comprehensive resource
   • MHSA Data Projects – important data projects, including Canadian, American & Russian Census listings, Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization records, etc.
   • Mennonite Historical Society BC
   • Mennonite Historical Society Manitoba
   • Mennonite Historical Society Ontario
   • Mennonite Heritage Centre
   • Mennonite Historical Society Canada

2. Health Records

   November 26, 2015 11:43 am Comments Off on Health Records

   Not many health records exist for Mennonites or others to employ in reconstructing families. Mennonites are fortunate to have access to vaccination records from Chortitza Colony, Russia for the years 1809 and 1814.

   Vaccination Records, Chortitza Colony, 1809
   Vaccination Records, Chortitza Colony, 1814
   © 2001 Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta
   Last Updated 4 May 2001

   General Queries/Comments: Contact MHSA

3. Index Geography Images

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4. Finding Aids

   January 21, 2014 11:09 am Comments Off on Finding Aids

   Links below are made to portions of our website that have indexes to or additional information about the records. There generally are lots of places where you can find these kinds of records on and offline. For a comprehensive index of on and offline Mennonite genealogical sources see our companion website: mgdi.mennonitehistory.org

   Part I. Books, Periodicals & Archival Records of specific help to Family History Research

   A. Records to help identify birth details

   • Biographies
   • Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records
   • Cemetery Records – date of birth on stone
   • Census Records – country/province of birth, date of birth (or age), etc.
   • Church Records – often the only official record of birth
   • Family Histories/Genealogies
   • GRANDMA
   • Local Histories – often towards the back of the book in alphabetical order by surname

   B. Records to help identify death details

   • Biographies
   • Cemetery Records – date of death on stone
   • Census Records – if the person appears in a family in one census and then is not in it at a later census (and can’t be presumed to have moved away)
   • Church Records – may include burial date & burial location
   • Family Histories/Genealogies
   • GRANDMA
   • Local Histories – often towards the back of the book in alphabetical order by surname

   C. Records to help identify marriage details

   • Biographies
   • Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records
   • Census Records – if the person no longer appears in his/her parents’ household and appears in another household
   • Church Records – generally identifies if it’s a second or later marriage
   • Family Histories/Genealogies
   • GRANDMA

   D. Records to help identify immigration details

   • Biographies – lots of Mennonites self-publish their memoirs
   • Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records
   • Census Records – country/province of birth, date of birth (or age), etc.
   • Family Histories/Genealogies
   • Using GRANDMA effectively

   E. Records to help identify how they spent their lives

   • Biographies – lots of Mennonites self-publish their memoirs
   • Census Records – identifies year of immigration
   • Conference Histories
   • Congregational Histories
   • Directories
   • Family Histories/Genealogies
   • Local Histories
   • Property Assessment Rolls
   • School Records
   • Service Organizations Histories

   Part II. Records we have at the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta

   A. Biographies

   • See BX 8107 Mennonite Encyclopaedia (thumbnail sketches) & online version – GAMEO
   • See BX 8141 (short biographies about a collection of people)
   • See BX 8143 (full-length book biographies about an individual or couple)
   • See Obituaries Indexes and Periodicals for Der Bote, Mennonite Brethren Herald, Gospel Herald, & Mennonite Life – may contain biographical information (periodical holdings at MHSA)
   • See F 1070 – Local Histories often contain short biographies
   • online biographical sketches
   • MHSA published book by Irene Klassen, Their Mark: Their Legacy (purchase)

   B. Cemetery Records

   • See Cemetery Indexes (Call No. AI 1)

   C. Census Records

   • See Census transcriptions (Call No. HA …)
   • See BX 8129 (Bergthal Gemeinde Buch for Manitoba Census, 1881) (purchase)
   • See: 1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West Reserve (purchase)
   • See 1881 Census of Canada (www.familysearch.org), 1901-1911 Census of Canada (AutomatedGenealogy)

   D. Conference Histories

   • See BX 8103 or BX 8129

   E. Congregational Histories

   • See BX 8132

   F. Church Records

   • See BX 8129 (Bergthal Gemeinde Buch, Sommerfelder Gemeinde Buch, Reinlaender Gemeinde Buch, etc.) (purchase)
   • See: History of Sommerfelder Mennonite Church
   • See Chortitza Family Register (CD) (purchase)
   • See Finding Aid for Congregations

   G. Directories

   • See BX 8107

   H. Genealogies

   • See CS 38
   • See BX8119 – Henry Schapansky genealogically-focused book on first settler families of Chortitza settlement in Russia (available for purchase)
   • See Periodical shelf for Mennonite Family History, MHSA newsletter & queries in Mennonite Historian; also holdings of major papers

   I. GRANDMA

   J. Local Histories

   • See F 1070 or F1075

   K. Immigration Records/Passenger Lists

   • See BX 8129 (Bergthal Gemeinde Buch) – 1874-1880
   • See Germans from Russia data disk files from George Dorscher
   • See HA … for Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records (1923-1930) and Paraguay Immigration Lists (1926)
   • See Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization fonds for records regarding settlement of Mennonites in Canada after WW II

   L. Property Assessment Rolls

   • See 1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West Reserve in library (purchase)

   M. School Records

   • See BX 8107 for School Yearbooks

   N. Service Organizations Histories (e.g. MCC, Women in Mission, etc.)

   • See BX 8103

   Last updated 13 Jun 2009

   General Queries/Comments: Contact MHSA

5. 1930 Census of Mexico – Blumenfeld

   January 10, 2014 12:28 pm Comments Off on 1930 Census of Mexico – Blumenfeld

   Substantial thanks must be given to Cornelius Heinrichs for his work on preparing a detailed index to the Mennonites found in the 1930 Census of Mexico. Please do read his introduction to understand the context of his index. These kinds of efforts are large and benefit many greatly.

   Blumenfeld Village, Mexico – 1930 Census
   Scan #	H’hold Head	Given Name	Initial	Last Name	Sex	Marital Status	Age			Country/ State Born	Owns Land?	Lives in own house?	Physical illness
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   40	x	David		Wieler	M	M	52			Canada
   40		Anna		Wieler	F	M	43			Canada
   40		Anna		Wieler	F	S	19			Canada
   40		Peter		Wieler	M	S	15			Canada
   40		Maria		Wieler	F	S	11			Canada
   40		Aganetha		Wieler	F	S	8			Canada
   40		Jacob		Wieler	M	S	2			Chihuahua
   97	x	Peter		Dyck	M	M	35			Canada
   97		Justina		Dyck	F	M	31			Canada
   97		Isaak		Dyck	M	S	10			Canada
   97		Cornelius		Dyck	M	S	8			Canada
   97		Maria		Dyck	F	S	4			Chihuahua
   97		Justina		Dyck	F	S	2			Chihuahua
   97	x	Abraham		Wall	M	M	62			Russia	Yes	Yes
   97		Susana		Wall	F	M	60			Russia
   97		Katharina		Wall	F	S	30			Canada
   97	x	Jacob	D	Fehr	M	M	48			Canada	Yes	Yes
   97		Susana		Fehr	F	M	47			Canada
   97		Justina		Fehr	F	S	26			Canada
   97		Maria		Fehr	F	S	24			Canada
   97		Isaak		Fehr	M	S	16			Canada
   97		Susana		Fehr	F	S	19			Canada
   97		Elisabeth		Fehr	F	S	14			Canada
   97		Margaretha		Fehr	F	S	11			Canada
   97		David		Fehr	M	S	4			Chihuahua
   97		Jacob	B	Thiessen	M	S	48			Canada	Yes
   97	x	Peter		Schmidt	M	M	23			Canada	Yes	Yes
   97		Katharina		Schmidt	F	M	24			Canada
   97		Peter		Schmidt	M	S	1			Chihuahua
   97	x	Isaak		Dyck	M	M	68			Russia	Yes	Yes
   97		Maria		Dyck	F	M	72			Russia
   97	x	Abraham		Neudorf	M	W	66			Russia	Yes	Yes
   97	x	Isaak	M	Dyck	M	M	40			Canada	Yes	Yes
   97		Susana		Dyck	F	M	40			Canada
   97		Peter		Sudermannn	M	S	20			Canada
   97		Isaak		Dyck	M	S	14			Canada
   97		Peter		Buhler	M	S	11			Canada
   97		Susana		Dyck	F	S	12			Canada
   97		Aganetha		Buhler	F	S	9			Canada
   97		Anna		Dyck	F	S	2			Chihuahua
   97	x	Peter		Reimer	M	M	64			Russia	Yes	Yes
   97		Margaretha		Reimer	F	M	66			Russia
   97		Helena		Friesen	F	S	8			Canada
   97	x	Maria		Klassen	F	W	37			Canada	Yes	Yes
   97		Jacob		Klassen	M	S	19			Canada
   97		Johann		Klassen	M	S	16			Canada
   97		Margaretha		Klassen	F	S	15			Canada
   97		Anna		Klassen	F	S	14			Canada
   97		David		Klassen	M	S	12			Canada
   97		Aganetha		Klassen	F	S	10			Canada
   97		Agatha		Klassen	F	S	9			Canada
   97		Katharina		Klassen	F	S	6			Canada
   97		Gertruda		Klassen	F	S	4			Chihuahua
   98	x	Jacob		Wall	M	M	67			Russia	Yes	Yes
   98		Katharina		Wall	F	M	61			Russia
   98		Peter		Giesbrecht	M	S	17			Canada
   98		Helena		Giesbrecht	F	S	16			Canada
   98	x	Abraham	A	Janzen	M	M	32			Canada	Yes
   98		Maria		Janzen	F	M	29			Canada
   98		Maria		Janzen	F	S	8			Canada
   98		Katharina		Janzen	F	S	7			Canada
   98		Abraham		Janzen	M	S	5			Canada
   98		Jacob		Janzen	M	S	2			Chihuahua
   98		Susana		Janzen	F	S		7		Chihuahua
   98	x	Peter		Neudorf	M	M	32			Canada	Yes	Yes
   98		Helena		Neudorf	F	M	28			Canada
   98		Susana		Neudorf	F	S	7			Canada
   98		Peter		Neudorf	M	S	6			Canada
   98		Abraham		Neudorf	M	S	5			Chihuahua
   98		Isaak		Neudorf	M	S	1			Chihuahua
   98	x	Wilhelm	P	Reimer	M	M	36			Canada	Yes	Yes
   98		Anna		Reimer	F	M	28			Canada
   98		Wilhelm		Reimer	M	S	10			Canada
   98		Cornelius		Reimer	M	S	5			Chihuahua
   98		Anna		Reimer	F	S	3			Chihuahua
   98	x	Isaak	W	Peters	M	M	34			Canada	Yes	Yes
   98		Anna		Peters	F	M	32			Canada
   98		Peter		Peters	M	S	10			Canada
   98		Helena		Peters	F	S	8			Canada
   98		Sara		Peters	F	S	6			Chihuahua
   98		Anna		Peters	F	S	4			Chihuahua
   98		Wilhelm		Peters	M	S	1			Chihuahua

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   Last Updated 25 Mar 2010

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