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  • Dismantling Regina Schoomer’s Banat Brick Wall

    Katherine Swanson wrote the attached article for the April 2021 issue of the Minnesota Genealogist. In it she explains the step-by-step process she used to backtrack from a Minnesota death…

  • Banaters in Naturalization Papers in Dawson County, Montana

    Dave Dreyer of San Mateo, CA conducted this research and published it in the Donauschwäbische Familienkundliche Forschungsblätter (DFF) #175-176, June 2020 of the Arbeitskreises donauschwäbischer Familienforscher (AKdFF). For the uniliingual…

  • Experiences of Banat Immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota

      by Marie Bibus During the early 1900s, hundreds of families arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota from the Banat region of Austria-Hungary. They were German-speaking, and came from several small…

  • Donauschwaben Familien Kalendar

    See also David Dreyer’s Zichydorf Village subscription database extractions from the Deutsch-Ungarischer Familien – Kalender (DUFK) The Familien Kalender was published in bound paperback, in format 9-1/2′”x 7″ x 1/2″(+/-)…

  • St. Paul Alien Registrations

    Brought to our attention byBob Paulson and Vern RippleyExtracted by Richard BartonAdditions by Harold Miller This information extracted from Minnesota Historical Society: Microfilm SAM 169, Roll 304 covering Precincts 2…