Researching German-Russian Genealogy
Researching German-Russian Genealogy Lo and behold, I never even knew that I had a German-Russian background until around 2006 or so. To be a bit more precise, I didn’t know what “German-Russian” meant. For those not in the know, as I was, the term refers to colonies of ethnic Germans who were invited to move into parts of “South Russia” in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Russians had defeated the Ottoman Turks and displaced them from areas to the north of the Black Sea, the Crimea, the Volga and so on. Since Catherine the Great was of German...
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