Presentations

Past Presentations

2020

September 2020 - Bill Bosch "Agriculture and Forestry in the 19th Century Russia" is the featured speaker in our first ever zoom meeting.

2019

October 2019 - Find a Grave expert, Robert (Bob) Rowe, is the featured speaker.

2017

November 2017 - Kristi Graner shares photos and her story of her recent trip to Ukraine and Transnistria where her ancestral village (Glueckstal) is located.

2016

November 2016 - Frieda Hofer

2015

September 2015 - Robert Russel, Director at Northern State University discusses NSU's efforts to document the Germans from Russia memories via oral history, how NSU will establish a GfR research center and how it will be useful for students and genealogists alike. Although the focus is to gain information about South Dakota natives it also has included North Dakota natives since many ND natives have family in SD too. These photos also include North Star Chapter members who have been interviewed so far by Robert.

May 2015 - The North Star Chapter "Ah One, Ah Two.........." A Musical Tribute to Lawrence Welk

March 2015 - Carolyn Schott discuss the state of Ukraine in 2015 and what the political issues mean for the people of Ukraine.

February 2015 - Duane Stabler presents a look at Agriculture in the upper Great Plains - through Grandfather's Eyes - NO PICTURES

2014

November 2014 - Pastor Alexander Scheiermann and Pastor Don Richman (translating) shares experiences growing up in Communist Russia then later becoming a pastor in an area near present day Volga region.

October 2014 - Milt Ost discusses the material he gathered for his latest book Tumbleweeds Burning - A Novel

September 2014 - at the Glockenspiel Restaurant in St. Paul - great food and wonderful visiting

Summer 2014 - Hollyhocks Readings at Coffee Shops

January 2014 - Hollyhocks and Grasshoppers Celebration at the NSC - The book launch was celebrated by readings and some special displays.

2013

November 2013 - Duane Stabler discusses the history of Walworth Co. SD with images of his book published in 2013

October 2013 - Ron Scherbenski shares his experience with the Mennonite community in Belize

2011

February 2011 - Vernon Keel discusses the fictional history book "The Murdered Family" a book based on the murder of a GR family in North Dakota

2010

October 2010 - Brent Mai

May 2010 - Memories-Stories-Poetry, Oh My! - Marleen Ehmann Bussma

March 2010 - John & Sue Groh explain and demonstrate German Russian ways

February 2010 - Soup Luncheon - Michael Miller, Director and Bibliographer of NDSU’s German Russian Heritage Collection (GRHC), will give a program profiling the mission and goals of this world-renowned non-profit organization (501-c3) located on the campus of North Dakota State University, Fargo

2009

November 2009 - Robert Russel from Northern State University, Aberdeen SD, discusses the addition of GR archives to the NSU library

October 2009 - Glockenspiel Lunch Social

April 2009 - Spring Banquet

2008

March 2008 - Soup Luncheon. Sam Brungardt had a short presentation on the different cuisine of the Volga Germans and the Black Sea Germans. Ten-year-old Cody Cosman, grandson of Lil and Dayton Ward, gave a speech about his great-great-great uncle John Heck.

February 2008 - Duane Stabler presents Through Grandfather's Eyes

2007

November 2007 - Immigration History Center Tour

September 2007 - Mary Wertz discusses archiving

April 2007 - Debra Marquart is Spring Banquet Speaker

March 2007 - Ben Jacques

2006

May 2006 - Charles Weiser acts out how is Grandfather Gottlieb would say

March 2006 - Jochim Pusch's experiences as a German Soldier & Allied POW

February 2006 - Debra Vevera explains

2005

October 2005 - Loretta Bebeau discusses art of the German Russians