Established in 1978
Incorporated as a non-profit educational organization in Minnesota, USA


Affiliated with the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
             Headquartered in Lincoln, NE, USA

       Affiliated with the Germans from Russia Heritage Society               Headquartered in Bismarck, ND, USA

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North Star Chapter of Minnesota

 Calendar of Events

Berea Lutheran Church, 

7538 Emerson Ave. S.,

Richfield, MN

February 20, 2010

Lost in Siberia: the Rest of the Story

by John Groh

Saturday, March 20, 2010,   1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

 

 

Please join us for John Groh’s poignant recount of his family’s global journey, how the de-ascendants’ reconnected, and the resulting reunion seventy years later. The Groh family was among the first settlers in the village of Grimm, along the Wiesenseite (meadow side) of the Volga River region in 1767 – just four years after the invitation to settle the area by Czarina Catherine the Great.  The family stayed in Grimm as farmers until six Groh siblings gathered up their families and immigrated to the US between 1906 and 1912, first settling in the May-wood area (a suburb of Chicago), and later moving west to the Mason City, Iowa, area where they worked the sugar beet cycle. Over the next decades some stayed in Iowa, some returned to Chicago, but no one knew what happened to those left behind.

family that stayed in Russia met a fate that took them – over several generations - from Grimm to Siberia. Later a branch moved from Siberia to Ukraine and, for some, a return to Germany, two hundred years after the original migration.

John Groh is retired after a long career with Drake University. With his wife, Sue, he lives in Johnston, IA. They are life members of AHSGR and charter members of the Wild Rose Chapter of IA and the North Star Chap-ter of MN.  Groh has served on both the AHSGR Board of Directors and Foundation Board. He enjoys studying genealogy and recently published a 300-page family history.

International Conventions

AHSGR and GRHS

40th Annual
Germans from Russia Heritage Society Convention
July 21-25, 2010
Treasuring the Past; Preserving the Future
Ramkota Best Western Hotel & Convention Center

 

2010 AHSGR CONVENTION
August 1 - 8, 2010
Embassy Suite
Lincoln, Nebraska

Posted here for your reference and convenience, are the upcoming meetings that have been scheduled by the VP of Programming

Upcoming Events

Tentative Schedule:

Mark Your Calendars in 2010

 

-GRHS Convention: ―Treasuring the Past, Preserving the Future, July 21-25, Bismarck, ND

-AHSGR Convention: ―Celebrate! August 1-8, Lincoln, NE

-Sept. 18: Glockenspiel Restaurant

-Oct. 16: Professor Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, "The Volga Relief Society.

 

-Nov. 20: Genealogy meeting; program by -Nancy Gertner & Cynthia Miller on using so-cial networking to connect

-Dec. 4: Weihnachtsfest