Links for Volhynia genealogy research
Organizations
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
Includes a St. Petersburg Lutheran index as well as many church records
Federation of East European Family History Societies
Familienforschung in Wolhynien
By Irene Koënig
East European Genealogical Society
Archives
Web page of the Zhitomir oblast archives
Web page of the Volyn oblast archives (in Lutzk)
Web page of the Rowno oblast archives
Ellis Island index to arrivals at New York 1892-1924
Dr. Steve Morse's Ellis Island search tools
Library and Archives Canada
including passenger lists and arrivals
Research Aids
Odessa Library
A Digital German/Russian Online Library
Germans from Russia arrivals in Canada
Halifax, Quebec and Saint John, compiled by George Dorscher
General Atlas of the Russian Empire
Dr. Steve Morse's One-Step tools:
English to Russian Transliteration
Russian to English Transliteration
Russian Cursive to Print
Russian Print to Cursive
Russia's Fallen (English)
Russian Google
Siberian Refugee Camps
Soviet Gulags
Jewish Traces
Lodz Cemetery
Index of Polish marriages to 1899
AHSGR SOAR databases
Localities
JewishGen ShtetlSeeker Town Search
Find localities in Eastern Europe
Geonames.org
One of the best places to find places
Ukraine: A Historical Atlas
Scroll down to see 19 pages in English.
Genealogy Unlimited
An excellent selection of 1:200,000 scale maps that include virtually every village in Volhynia
Volhynia district map
Using Maps and Gazetteers in Your Research
By Dave Obee
Miscellany
The Germans from Volhynia and Russian Poland
From the University of Alberta website
Karlswalde Website
Information on the village south of Ostrog, and neighboring villages
The mutilation of names
By William Hoffman (PDF - requires Acrobat)
In the Midst of Wolves
Don Miller's account of the Baptists in Volhynia
In the Midst of Wolves
Another way to get to Don Miller's site
Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden in Deutschland
Baptists in Germany today
History of the Germans in farming villages near Kiev
Compiled by Bill Remus
Escape from the "Red Paradise"
By Erica Margita Neumann
The story of the Harbin, China, Lutheran refugees
By Virginia A. Less
Germans from Russia Research Marketplace
Deutschsprachiger Suchindex
For Web searches in German
The Unofficial Holland America Line Home page
Many Volhynians used this line to get to North America
Volynska Home Page
From the Rootsweb board
Germans from Russia
Heritage Collection
NDSU Library: Mailing lists, newspaper articles, and more
JewishGen Volhynia home
A goldmine of regional information
Mennonite Genealogy
Richard Thiessen's site
Personal Pages
Steve's Genealogy Blog
A wonderful site about Polish research
Family Merry from Volhynia
The work of a German researcher, translated into English.
Ed Koeppen's Family History Page
Koeppen, Bunkowski und Freigang families
Werner Family History
Dwayne Tiede's web page
Information from the Zhitomir area
Laurelei's Volhynian Ancestry
Families include Behrend, Dembeck, Depner, Grams, Hauf, Kopp / Koop, Machnauer, Riege, Schindel und Schroeder
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