Maggie Hein posted the following message about online church records from the Caucasus (see below). My comments: Maggie, those records are amazing and thanks for posting them. What I especially appreciate is that you actually posted links, thus enabling fellow researchers to quickly check out the records and use them in their research. Too often in the past, records have been mentioned without adequate links or information, thus teasing and frustrating researchers. Thanks for showing the right way to do it! In glancing quickly through the 1879 and 1885 records, I noticed reference to colonists from Riebensdorf and some Bergseite villages. I didn't see any references to Wiesenseite villages. Time permitting, I hope to continue looking through the records to see if I can find some Wiesenseite villages mentioned. Will try to jot down the names of the villages I see and report them to the group on this list. I suggest that others do the same, so we can start to get an idea of the number of Volga colonists who relocated to the Caucasus and the villages from which they came. As many Volga researchers probably are aware, Volga colonists in the 1890s relocated to the Omsk area of Siberia and founded daughter colonies there. By going to familysearch.org and searching the Catalog under "Places," entering "Russia," and then clicking on "Russia - Census- 1897," I previously have located 1897 census records for Tobolsk guberniya, the province where Omsk appears to have been located. However, I have been unable so far to tell whether the records cover the daughter colonies founded by Volga emigrants. My reason for mentioning this is to alert other researchers to this possibility, with the hope that someone else may be able to locate the pertinent census records for the Omsk-area colonies and post the film numbers or links here. David F. Schmidt VC for Boaro, Caesarsfeld & Stahl am Karaman Email: schmidtdavidf@yahoo.com A Village of Frank descendant that I was recently helping alerted me to the fact that he had found numerous settlers from Frank in the Lutheran Church records of Taganrog for the years 1879-1885.  Taganrog is on the Sea of Azov, near Rostov-on-Don.  The fact that Frank people had immigrated to this area was somewhat of a surprise to me.  We had some indications on Pleve charts that Frank people had immigrated to "The Caucasus" and one chart indicates that a family had immigrated to the "Stavropol Region", but I had no exact locations or any idea if any records existed.  The 1879-1885 church records have been posted on the internet here:  https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=IEZ3T4hQDvJDWhSEtCxl8l2voD1LR4ir4qca4J5BaoE%3D&locale=ru I have looked through a few pages of the 1879 and 1885 records and have found numerous Walter and Frank people.  The entries clearly indicate the village of origin for the colonists.  Some further searching, with a lot of help from Bill Doos, yielded the following LDS film collection: Metrical books, 1834-1885 Authors: Evangelical Lutheran Church. Taganrog (Rostov-na-Donu) (Main Author)  Format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film  Language: German  Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1993  Physical: on 30 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.  https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1408144?availability=Family%20History%20Library I would need to get the 1879-1885 films to know for certain, but I believe based on the number of pages listed that these are the same records that are posted on the web site mentioned above.  My takeaway from this is (1) there is a lot of stuff out there on the internet that we just don't know about and (2) there is a lot of stuff in the LDS microfilm collection that we just don't know about.  Maggie Hein Village of Frank David F. Schmidt Contra Costa County Counsel's Office Email: David.Schmidt@cc.cccounty.us and schmidtdavidf@yahoo.com Telephone: 925-451-6632 (cell)