North Star Chapter of Minnesota

Affiliated with the

American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 

and

The Germans from Russia Heritage Society

Last updated 5/10/2008

Officers since 2006

 

Past Meetings since 1999

2007

The Public Land Survey System with photos

"Hungry, Hopeless, Nowhere to turn.  Please Send Help!"  as presented by Homer Rudolf

"The Silent Ob"An Escape from Russia by Ben Jacques

Spring Banquet with Debra Marquart

Tom & Jan Stangel Return with More EWZ Information 

Harvest Fest 2007

Immigration History Center at the Univ. of Minnesota

2006

Feb. 2006 Genealogy Workshop - Deb Vevea, Director of the Crystal LDS

            Fighting for Hitler: A German Soldier's Story by Jochim Pusch
            Annual Spring "Pot Luck Celebration"
             Octoberfest at Glockenspiel Restaurant, September 2006

The Rhubarb King - Book Review about North Dakota Memories     by   Sharon Grenz Chmielarz

 

Fall 2006 Genealogy Workshop - Deb Vevea from the LDS Crystal Library

 

Weinachsfest 2006 Celebrated December 2, 2006  

and More Photos

2005

Ann Braaten presents Remembering "Grandmother's Shawls" January 15, 2005

John & Sue Groh present Planning a Reunion by , February 5, 2005

Joachim Pusch presents Fighting for Hitler, a German Soldier's Story, March 19, 2005

Loretta Schantz Bebeau discusses her German Russian childhood and it's influence on her art on October 15, 2005

Art Stabner presents a visit to the Ukraine in September 2004

Annual Weihnachtsfest, Dec, 2005

2004

Lost in Translation by Jim Gessele, Jan, 2004

Oh, The places we've been, Genealogy Workshop by Al Oster and Duane Stabler, Feb, 2004

Merv Rennich presents Prairie Crosses March, 2004

Karl Lacher presents Kutschurgan Colonies at the Spring Banquet, 2004

Kathryn Adams Doty presents A Long Year of Silence Sept. 2004

Sandi Dewald presents "Gazing Forward, Glancing Back, Remembering Always" Oct. 2004

D Stabler & K Lacher demonstrate FTM(PC) and Reunion(Mac) genealogy Software Nov 2004

Weinachsfest 2004 Celebrated December 4, 2004 with photos

2003

Otto Pohl discusses Ethnic Cleansing in the former Soviet Union, Jan, 2003

Lew & Donna Marquardt discuss Volga and Black Sea Germans from Russia Feb, 2003

Cynthia Miller discusses how to write "your own story "Oct, 2003

25th Anniversary Celebration Nov, 2003

Annual Weihnachtsfest, Dec, 2003

2002

Shirley Wegner Nitschke March, 2002

Cynthia Miller at the 2002 Spring Banquet

Margaret Freeman presents November 2002 Genealogy Workshop

Annual Weihnachtsfest, December 2002

2001

Nancy West presents-Are your Ducks in a Row?, January, 2001

Pat Lowe demos the LDS Website, Feb 2001 Genealogy Workshop

Jaci Williams discusses The Games our Ancestors Played

Ron Vossler May, 2001 Spring Banquet

Mary Wertz discusses how to be a Reunion Survivor, September, 2001

October Fest 2001

Genealogy Workshop November, 2001

Christmas 2001, Annual Weihnachtsfest

2000

Gwen Pritzkau Presents at the Genealogy Workshop 

Paulette Tobin presents a Baby Boomers View  

The Spring banquet, held on May 13, 2000

Dr Nancy Holland Headlines September, 2000

Harvest Festival, October, 2000

Allyn Brosz presents at the Genealogy Workshop

Annual Weihnachtsfest, December 2000

1999

Mayo Flegel presents Heritage in Living Color

EWZ Presentation at the Genealogy Workshop

North Star Chapter Harvest Festival 1999