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

Contact us:  dstabler@bigfoot.com (webmaster)

History of Officers since 2000

(further history is available from the N.S Chapter Historian)

Year
President
VP Programing VP Membership Treasurer      Secretary
2000 Shona Docktor Duane Stabler Mayo Flegel Ruben Soruco Nancy Gertner
2001 Shona Dockor Jaci Williams Bill Brooks Rueben Soruco Nancy Gertner
2002 Nancy Gertner Jaci Williams Bill Brooks Lil Ward Chris Huber
2003 John Hafner Lil Ward Cynthia Miller Deb Koehler Pat Current
2004 Duane Stabler Lil Ward Helen Kleingartner Gwen Schock Jorgiann Waltner
2005 Duane Stabler Bob Gies Helen Kleingartner Gwen Schock Jorgiann Waltner
2006 Lil Ward Bob Gies Jorgiann Waltner Jaci Williams Bernie Becker
2007 Jim Gessele Lil Ward Jorgiann Waltner Jaci Williams Bernie Becker
2008 Duane Stabler Lil Ward Helen Kleingartner Pat Current Glorian Anderson
2009 Duane Stabler Eloise Kelly Helen Kleingartner Pat Current Raymond Reinhardt
2010 Lil Ward Eloise Kelly Ardella Bennett Ron Scherbenski Ray Reinhardt

 

Past Meetings since 1999

2009

Christmas 2009

Growing Up in Changing Times Oct 2009

Oktoberfest 2009

Grandma's Kase Knepfla - Jan 2009

Genealogy Workshop - Websites demonstrated - February 2009

Oktoberfest 2009

 

2008

Christmas 2008

Books and Information about our heritage - Nov 2008

Merchant Gifts - Oct 2008

October Fest - Sept 2008

North Star Chapter 30th Anniversary

"Carl Rivinius vs. John Fast:  A Claim Contest Overshadowed by Machine Politics." by Jim Gessele

"Through Grandfather's Eyes, Postcards are a View to the Past" by Duane Stabler

2007

The Public Land Survey System

"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 w/more EWZ Information

Harvest Fest 2007

Immigration History Center at the Univ. of Minnesota

Weinachsfest 2007 Celebrated December 1

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 "potluck celebration"

Oktoberfest at Glockenspiel Restaurant

 

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  

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 : "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

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