Will Be Glad to Meet’—The Germans from Russia (AHSGR)-CIS Archives & Genealogical Records Project
The Hive Doors Open at 12:30
Speaker: Richard Scheuerman
’WILL BE GLAD TO MEET’—The Germans from Russia-CIS Archives & Genealogical Records Project”
- explores the origins of a remarkable historical records research project that took place in the wake of the Cold War. The effort, which began in 1990 and has continued in various forms ever since, involved building relationships of trust between members of the US-based American Historical Society of Germans from Russia and historians and archivists in the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation and Ukraine.
- By 1994 the work had yielded approximately 10,000 pages of documents related to Germans from Russia family records, settlement, colonial development, and emigration to North and South America.