Effective June 13, 2007 at http://www.ahsgr.org/ and www.ahsgrsoar.org The American Historical Society of Germans from Russian (AHSGR) proudly announces a major addition to the SOAR record site. KEYWORDED information, searchable by ALL surnames mentioned in the image with spelling variations and/or errors compensated for with SOUNDEX. The record site currently has 156,652 images with almost 6 million associated keywords to facilitate your research. The new information increases the collection spanning over 100 years by 55% with MORE OBITUARIES and NEW CATEGORIES including: AHSGR Journals - Personal Narratives, Historical Articles, Photographs and Folklore (1977-1997) AHSGR Work Papers - History of Germans from Russia (G/R) Settlements, Personal Narratives, Photographs and Folklore. (Complete set of 25 volumes, 1969-1977 - predecessor to AHSGR Journals) AHSGR Clues - Listing Surname requests from abroad and Researchers' names / addresses. (Complete set of 22 volumes 1977-1999) Cemetery Records - Records from known G/R Settlement Areas Ships Passenger Lists - 4,587 images extracted from G/R Records in Ships' Passenger Lists Surname Charts - Family Trees beginning with First Settlers' List of Germans migrating to Russia plus supporting documentation. (The supporting documentation will be moved to a separate database.) Indexed by Doris Evans. Stumpp Book - AHSGR Translation of Karl Stumpp's Emigration from German to Russia in the Years 1763-1862. (Listing colonies, colonists and dates of emigration from First Settlers' Lists.) Bohlender Book - Pictures and stories of over 800 Bohlanders, Bolanders, Bohlenders & Bolenders who began migrating to the US in 1709 and their German Russian & German Ancestors; also over 2,500 allied families of interest. Bessarabian Birth, Death and Marriage Records - These mid 1800 records for the villages of Alt Elft, Neu Elft, Dennewitz, Katzbach, Paris, and Platz often include parents, Godparents and male occupations. The newly updated records were available to convention attendees at the AHSGR Convention in Hays, Kansas, at substantially reduced rates. Some additional refinements will continue as part of the upgrade after our beta test but the site is operational. Dennis Zitterkopf