Yagodnaya Polyana, Saratov, Russia
This comprehensive site provides extensive information about Yagodnaya Polyana, the Volga village of the Weitz families.

GER-VOLGA discussion group
GER-Volga is a Germans from Russia genealogy electronic discussion group (mail list) for people who are interested primarily in Germans from Russia genealogy and family research for Germans who lived in the Volga River region of Russia.

Weitz Genealogy Tree
We are very fortunate that the Weitz surname has been researched and a genealogy tree has been prepared by Dr. Igor Pleve, a Russian genealogist. This "Weitz Tree" has been donated to the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia by Raymond Weitz and can be purchase at AHSGR.

American Historical Society of Germans From Russia (AHSGR)
An international organization dedicated to the discovery, collection, preservation, and dissemination of information related to the history, cultural heritage and genealogy of Germanic Settlers in the Russian Empire and their descendants.

Social Security Death Index at Rootsweb
Rootsweb provides free on-line access to the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). Rootsweb has the most comprehensive search capabilities of any SSDI on the internet plus you can leave "post-em notes" about individuals in the index.

Rootsweb Surname Search
This database of 600,000 names is very simple to search and has some German-Russian names from Yagodnaya Polyana.

Whitman County Genealogical Society
Many of the people from Yagodnaya Polyana, including Weitz families, settled in Whitman County, Washington, particularly in Endicott and Colfax. This genealogical society has indexed births, probates, marriages, and tombstones and offers them for sale at their web site.

Germans from Russia in Portland
This comprehensive site provides detailed information about the German Russians that settled in Portland, OR.

Master Listing of German Russians
This searchable list contains people who are researching German Russian surnames and villages. Be sure to search for all possible spellings of a name or village.

LDS Family Search Site
The Church Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints has recently put access to their Ancestral File (35 million names organized into families and pedigrees), International Genealogical Index (285 million names extracted from vital records around the world) and several other databases online. These comprehensive databases were previously only available at Family History Centers.

The Weitz Family
Johann Conrad Weitz and his family immigranted to the USA in 1892 and settled in Walla Walla, Washington.

Weitz-Spindler Home Page
This Weitz family was from the Volga area, probably the village of Krasnojar. They settled in Saginaw, Michigan and had other Weitz relatives in Chicago, IL.

German Villages in the Volga Valley of Russia
This comprehensive site lists 300 German villages in the Volga Valley of Russia along with other Volga history, maps and other resources. Also included is a settlement map of the USA and Canada and a German Russian population table by state.

Books
All of the books listed below, except "Return to Berry Meadow", are out of print. They can be borrowed through inter-library loan from AHSGR. Return to Berry Meadow can be purchase from AHSGR.

The Weitz Saga by H. J. Brumley, Sr, September 30 , 1986, printed in USA CS 71 .W448 1986x

Pilgrims on the Earth, A German-Russian Chronicle by Richard D. Scheuerman, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA 1976

Faith of Our Fathers. by Susan M.Yungman, CS 71 .J863 1972x

From the Steppes to the Land of Pleasant Living: A History of the John W. Schmick Family. By William G. Schmick CS 71 .S353 1900zx

Return to Berry Meadow and other Stories of Our People. By Richard Scheuerman, editor, AHSGR 1995

The West Siders: The Development and Disintergration of the Volga German Community in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. By Peggy A. Lautenschlager 16 May 1977

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