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File consists of the following items:
1) Diary by David Epp (1781-1843) beginning in 1837 and ending in 1843. Title: "Tagebuch gefuehrt von David Epp in Chortitz, 1937", Copy of original handwritten diary.
2) Transcribed and typed by Katherine Hooge, Saskatoon, Sask. in 1981.

File consists of the following items:
1) Diary by Henry D. Rempel 1908-2010, titled "From Russia to America - a Diary" which describes the journey from Ukraine to Nebraska in 1922-1923.
2) Family register of Dietrich Heinrich Rempel, 1869-1922 and Aganetha Rempel (Fast) ,1875-1922.
3) A map of Molotschna Colonies and the years they were established.

This file consists of the following item:
1) A diary by Dietrich Neufeld describing the revolution in Russia between September 1919 and February 1920. "Ein Tagebuch aus dem Reiche des Totentanzes" published in Emden in 1921. Box 238

This file consists of a diary fragment. It appears to be written by Heinrich Friesen.
It begins on Sept 1868 and ends in August 1869.
It describes detailed weather information and activities on farming and animal husbandry.
Church services and visiting with friends are referred to in the diary.
Villages of Halbstadt, Steinfeld, Elizabethtal, Schoenau,, Schardau, Alexanderwohl, are mentioned. 11 pages. Box 238

The file contains the following items:
1.1) B.B. Janz Travel documents for the Canadian Pacific Railway Lines and receipts for travel taken contained in a small wallet.
B.B. Janz Identity Card issued by the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft in der Ukraine, issued June 22, 1924.
1.2) Jacob P. Becker Poem "Aussang und Fortgang der Mennoniten Bruedergemeinde-, 5 pages,1 file (Box 241)
1.3) Sermons and Ecclesiastical Affairs - 1 file (Box 241)
1.4) John P. Isaac correspondence with B.B. Janz regarding the Harbin immigrants of 1926 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.5) Letters to B.B. Janz, Peter Baerg - 1 file (Box 241)
1.6) Letters to B.B. Janz from daughter Helen Janz Thiessen - 1963-1964 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.7) The Land Question, 1923. Soviet of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Socialist Republic correspondence with B.B. Janz , P.F. Froese, C.F. Klassen and others. Translated Russian Language Materials from the A.A. Friesen Collection, North Newton, Kansas. Handwritten notes by John B. Toews are included. 1 file (Box 241)
1.8) Russian Mennonite Documents, 1922-1924. Brief translations from Russian language into English. War Reparations, Emigration Movement, B.B. Janz Correspondence. - 1 file (Box 241)
1.9) Mennonite Emigration, 1921-1922, Russian Rules and Regulations. Minutes of the All-Russian Central Committee, 1921. Correspondence of B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.10) Mennonite Emigration, 1923-1925. Russian regulations imposed on Mennonites in the Russian language...abbreviated translations into English. Extensive correspondence with B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.11) Reports and Newspaper articles; 1921-1925. Hollenders by F. Mossenko with translation. Articles from "Communist" Newspaper, 1924; "Die Arbeit" 1924. - 1 file (Box 241)

This file consists of the following item:

1) Manuscript titled " Project for the Economic Reconstruction of the Nikolaipol District of Ekaterinoslav". - 1 file (Box 241)

The file consists of the following items:
1) David P. Sudermann essay presented at the Federation of East European Family History Societies, 2005, "From Riches to Rags: Gutsbesitzer in South Russia, 1830-1920". - 1 file (Box 241)

This file consists of the following item:
H.G. Mannhardt "Jahrbuch der Altevangelischen Taufgessinnten Mennoniten Gemeinden. 176 pages. - 1 file (Box 241)

This file consists of the following item:
Manuscript : Namens Verzeichniss der in Deutschland Ost und Westpreussen, Galizien, Polen und Russland befindlichen Mennoniten Gemeinden, sowie ihrer Aeltesten, Lehrer und Vorsteher. - 1 file (Box 241)

This file consists of the following:
1) The anonymous article is translated from German by John B.Toews. Then and Now describes the moral and ethical condition of Mennonites in the aftermath of war and revolution and life under Communist rule. 10 pages. - (1 file) Box 241

This files contains the manuscript titled
"Fuenfzig Jahre Blankenburger Konferenz: Festschrift herausgegeben im Auftrag und unter Mitarbeit des Vorstandes der Blankenburger Konferenz. 151 pages - (1 file) Box 241

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - (1 file)
2) History of Coaldale MB Church (1 file)
3) Church Council Minutes, 1952-1955 - (1 file)
Committee members, make-up, duties and responsibilities, 6 pages; Guidelines for Christian weddings and engagements.
4) Coaldale MB Church Minutes 1926-1931;1932-1933; 1933-1935;1936-1938; 1938-1945;1945-1955.
Closing of the Coaldale Mission Announced, 1957, Harold Janz, MB Herald,
5) Coaldale MB Church Yearbooks 1950, 1954,1956-1973, 1974,1977, 1980-1982, 2016-17,
6) Financial Records and Reports 1930-1973
7) Legal Documents, Certificate of Title of the land in South Alberta, 1 page, Fire and Storm Insurance, 2 pages, 1942 Church Construction 1954 , Insurance, Zur Siedlungdfrage , 1954;
8) Youth Work Protokolle & Programme unter der Arbeit unter der Jugend 1933-1940,104 pages. Entstehung und Entiwckelung der Jugendarbiet in the Coladale M.B. Gemende, D.J. Pankratz, 1951, 2 pages.Protokoll Maerz 1953-1955, A H Unruh 5 pages, Resolution 1956, 3 pages,
9) Coaldale Bible School history, Handreichung fuer Eintretende in die Bibelschule zu Coaldalele. 1929, 4 pages; Entfallung und Entwicklung der Bibelschule in Coaldale, Wertschaetzung der beiden Schulen, Bibelschule und Hochschule, 6 pages. (Committee Report)
10) Missions, A Report : unknown author "Entstehung der MB Gemeinde in Russland" history of missions 1860 to 1948, 28 pages. Letters to American Mennonite Mission, J.J. Dick, B.B. Janz, B.P. Epp, Aaron Toews, H.K Siemens, Franz, J.Friesen; A report with statistics 1950 by Heinrich Kornelsen, 5 pages; A list of 72 Coaldale missionaries.
11) Church Music, "History of Music as I see it" by Henry Dueck, 2 pages; "Wogen und Wellen in der Stuerm und Drang", 1956-1957" by Peter H Regehr, 86 pages.; English translation, 46 pages; Letter by choir leader Peter Dick re: the conflict about the singing of the Oratorio 'Der Messia"; "The Singer's Curse" lyrics by Ludwig Uhland, 2 pages and translation 1 page.
12) Seniors, Altenverein, Maria Martha Verein, Founding of Maria Martha Verein, 1930, by Gertrude Martens. 1 page; Establishment and history and statistics of the Alterverein,1937, 2 pages; Fifty Five Plus Remembrance Day Meeting, 1998; "As I Remember Rev. B.B. Janz: Margaret Martens Janz, 7 pages; " As I Remember It" Peter Martens, 5 pages; Tributes by Margert Riediger, Peter Regier Jr..1995.
13) Membership Lists Coaldale MB Church Membership Lists and Year-end reports, 1950, 1951-1953. List of 41 Coaldale members in ministry assignments List of 22 ministers who served in Coaldale (1926-1976), 4 pages
14) Coaldale MB Church Anniversary Celebrations, 25th, including "Gedenk und Dankfest" book, 81 pages, history, programs, sermons, reports and congratulations, 45th Anniversary, " Coaldale Revisited"; 50th Anniversary Book, 52 pages; 60th, Diamond Jubilee Program, 75th Anniversary notes; 90th Anniversary "Great is thy Faithfulness"
15) Sermons, Lectures, Reports, H.H. Kornelsen, B.B. Janz, A.A. Toews, David Nickel, P.R. Toews, and others unsigned.

Series consists of the following files:

1) Audiotapes (set) of Bibles Conference messages by J.B. Toews, Feb. 19, 20, 21, 22, 1981 - (6 audiotapes) - Box 249
2) Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 4269, Lawrence Klippenstein, "Religion and Dissent in the Era of Reform: the Russian Stundobaptists, 1858-1884". 1971. (File #10) - Box 249
3) Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 4413, Waldemar Gutsche, " Westliche Quellen des Russischen Stundismus". (file #3) - Box 249
4) Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 4430, J. Pritzkau, " Geschichte der Baptisten in Sued-Russland". (File #14) - Box 249
5) Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 2204-1, Materials Related to Russian Baptists. Articles by A. Kroeker, Johannes Warns, J.G. Kargel, R.S. Latimer, David Bekker, C.A. Flugge, F. Berner, (File #13) J. Prinz, George J. Eisenach, Karl Muller, Maria Kroeker. - Box 249
6)Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 2204-5, R.S. Latimer, "Dr. Baedeker and his Apostolic Work in Russia", 1907. (File #11) - Box 249
7) Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 2204-7, I.S. Prokhanoff, " In the Cauldron of Russia 1869-1933". (file #15) - Box 249
8)Historical Commission Microfilm Pub. No. 3531, C. von Martens, "Taten Gottes im Osten" 2nd. ed. (File #12) - Box 249
9) Microfilm "Neuer Haus und Landwirtschafts-Kalender" von Odessa (1896-1898). (File #27) - Box 249
10) DVD David D. Suderman, "Riches to Rags", paper; "Out of Russia, 1910-1915" paper; Amy Greaves Sudermann Enns, "Winding Trails" and floppy disc of the same material. ?? - Box 249
11) VHS Interview with Mrs. Helene Merker and John B. Toews, May 12, 1993. - Box 249
12) Audiotapes (set)," History of Christianity I : From the End of the New Testament Era to the Reformation, by Joihn B Toews. A series of 22 audiotapes produced by Regent College, Vancouver, BC. Canada. - Box 249
13) Separation sheets, Music Awards - (1 file) - Box 249

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Alexanderfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
2) Alexanderkrone, established1883, 1 file, village map
3) Altenau, established 1873, 1 file, village map
4) Blumenort , established 1873, 1 file, village map
5) Deutchendorf, established 1942, 1 file, village map
6) Eigental, established 1865, 1 file, no map
7) Friedensfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
8) Fuerstenfeld, established 1868, 1 file, village map
9) Gnadenfeld, established 1877, 1 file, village map
10) Landau, established 1868-1869, 1 file, village map
11) Muensterberg, established 1872, 1 file, village map
12) Neu Halbstadt, established 1872, 1 file, village map
13) Neu Manheim, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
14) Nikolaifeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
15) Nikolaital, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
16) Orloff #6, established 1873, 1 file, village map
17) Orloff, Marienburg, Statistics, 1 file, no map
18) Reinfeld, established 1875, 1 file, village map
19) Rosenort, established 1875, 1 file, village map
20) Sandfeld #10, established 1942, 1file, village map
21) Schoenau, established 1877, 1 file, village map
22) Schoental, established 1869, 1 file, village map
23) Steinfeld, established 1879, 1 file, village map
24) Tiege, established 1872, 1 file, no map
25) Neu Schoensee, established 1871, 1 file, village map

This sub-series consists of the following files:
1) Nikopol City, established ____, 1 file, no map
2) Blumenfeld, established 1870, 1 file, village map
3) Friedensfeld, established 1862, 1 file, village map
4) Katharinental, established 1858, 1 file, village map
5) Steinau, established 1870, 1 file, village map