Links and Resources

On the Web

Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step
This is easiest way to search the Ellis Island ship's passenger record database. Most of the original ship manifests are on two pages and you will usually have to use the previous or next link at the Ellis Island Records' original ship manifest page to see the other page. http://www.ellisisland.org/

Fort Hays State University library
www.fhsu.edu/forsyth_lib/ksheritage/volgagermans.shtml

Volga River Germans in America:
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/history/herzog.html

German-Russian Settlements in Ruch/Ellis Counties, Kansas USA
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/statewide/ethnic/german-russian/jubilee/index.html

German's from Russia
1920 U.S. CENSUS
Ellis County, Kansas
http://www.webbitt.com/volga/KS-ellis-1-cty.txt

American Historical Society of Germans From Russia (AHSGR)
http://www.ahsgr.org/

German-Russian Settlement Map
http://www.rollintl.com/roll/grsettle.htm

Map of the Volga, Russia area in 18XX
http://www.rollintl.com/roll/volga.htm

Volga Germans, A brief history
http://www.lhm.org/LID/lidhist.htm

Books

From Privileged to Dispossessed, The Volga Germans, 1860-1917
By James W. Long, 1988
ISBN : 0-8032-2881-3
Price: $12.50

Conquering the Wind
By Amy Brungardt Toeppfer and Agnes Dreiling
Copyright 1966. Revised 1982 by American Historical Society of Germans from Russia