Got a project idea that is relevant to Mennonite history in Alberta? Just pitch it! We’d love to hear about it. Send an e-mail about it to the MHSA.
And, if you know of old documents or books that are not preserved into an archive, let us know! We are always interested in information related to Mennonites, especially for those who lived in Alberta or whose relatives lived in Alberta at some time. We are a collecting archives and library, and so are always looking to improve the volume and nature of our resources for inquiring researchers.
Data Projects
A. Indexes or Transcriptions
- Census Records
- Canada (1881-1911)
- Mexico (1930)
- Russia (info re “Revision Lists“)
- Am Trakt (1857)
- Chortitza (1801)
- Kuban (1869)
- Molotschna (1835-8th Rev., 1850)
- Yazykovo (1858-10th Rev., 1869, 1873)
- USA (1900)
- Biographical Sketches/Essays/Eulogies
- Books
- Name Index to BH Unruh’s Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
- Church Records
- Busau (ca. 1884-1922)
- Karpovka (1934)
- Namaka Mennonite Cemetery, Namaka Farm, Alberta Burial Register
- Plauschwarren Mennonite Church, East Prussia
- Vauxhall-Grantham, Alberta – First Mennonite Church, 1939-2000 (baptisms, marriages, burials)
- Immigration & Settlement Records
- Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization (1923-30; more forthcoming)
- Germany to Argentina (en route to Paraguay) Passenger Lists (1930)
- Kuban – Intended Settlers (1864)
- Chortitza settlers from Memelniederung, 1789-1793
- Health Records
- Vaccinations (1809, 1814)
- Letters of Conscience & Immigration
- Obituaries
- Residents Lists (1866)
- Kuban (1866)
- Chortitza Landowners (1814)
- Molotschna Landowners (1863)
- School Yearbooks (Canadian)
- Travesties – persons abducted, arrested, banished, murdered, starved
- Vital Records
- Chortitza (1801-1813)
- Plauschwarren Mennonite Church Marriages (1778-1862)
- Saskatchewan (1903-1915)
- Voter Records
- Molotschna (1847)
B. Resource Files
- Board of Guardians Committee of Foreign Settlers
- Fund (Collection) 6 – Inventory 1 (1799-1820)
- File Inventories (1799-1841)
- Census & Revision Lists in Russia
- Finding Aids
- GEDCOM Files
- Genealogical Collections
- Genetic Testing – now redirects to other resource sites
- Geography
- Russian Mennonite Villages
- Prussian & Russian Maps
- GoogleEarth file for Mennonite locations
- MHSA Archival fonds descriptions
- Herman Thiessen fonds (Genealogical Correspondence and notes: Folders 91-829 )
- Photographs from the Past
- Postcards from the Past
- Surnames
C. Advice
Last Updated 29 Apr 2010
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