Digitized records of the International Guest House (Washington, D.C.) which operated as a ministry of the Allegheny Mennonite Conference from 1967 to 2020.

Most IGH records were digitized in 2016 by Clayton Steiner, a two-year IGH host. Steiner updated the records after IGH closed and reprocessed the entire collection in 2021. The collection also includes hard copy duplicates for select document sets, as indicated in the finding aid.

14.2 Guardianship Committee

Ministry of Internal Affairs Settlements of Prussian Mennonites to South Russia 1801-1804

18) Settlement of Mennonites 1804, 50 pages. Lists of colonists that lived outside of their colonies
19) South Russian Foreign Settlers Odessa Office - 1806-1850, 131 pages
20) Foreign Settlements in Southern Russia, Nominal Index 1800-1801
21) Committee for Foreign Settlers in Southern Russia, 1799-1876 Lilia Belousova

This file consists of the following German War Documents;
1) A Key to a Microfilm of Materials of the Captured German Documents at the Library of Congress of Washington D. C ., Prepared by Adam Geisinger, German and English 21 pages, 6 hand drawn maps.1977
2) Records of Former German and Japanese Embassies and Consulates , 1890-1945, 63 pages.
3) Records of the German Field Commands, Armies (Part 1) 1959 English, 61 pages.
4) Records on Resettlement Part I, 1960 Dr. Boyd C. Shafer, English; 105 pages.
5) Einwohnerverzeichnis. List of villagers ( Date or place not given) 63 pages.
6) Index of Microfilmed Records covering the Weimar Period, 1958, Ernst Schwandt, 95 pages
7) Records of the Reich Ministry of Economics,1957, Gerhard L. Weinberg, 75 pages
8) Records for the Strengthening of Germandom, 1957, Gerhard L. Weinberg, 15 pages
9) Records of the Organization Todt, 1957, Gerhard L Weinberg, 3 pages.
10) Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I),1957, Gerhard L Weinberg,, 16 pages.
11) Records of Nazi Culture and Axis Relations and Interests in the Far East, Dagmar Horna, Gerhard L. Weinberg,1858, 161 pages
12) Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command, Berenice A. Carroll , 1959, 222 pages.
13) Miscellaneous German Records Collection,(Part II), Berenice A. Carroll, 1959, 203 pages.
14) Records of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production, Berenice, A. Carroll, 1959, 109 pages.
15) Fragmentary Records of Miscellaneous Reich Ministries and Offices, Henry E. Friedlander, 1959, 19 pages.
16) Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command, Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1959, 19 pages.
17) Records of the Reich Air Ministry, Henry E. Friedlander 1959, 34 pages

The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, and it is one of the largest, if not the largest, collections of family correspondence in the MLA (18 cubic feet of letters, perhaps over 20,000 total). The parents and brothers and sisters of Jacob and Louise corresponded with them for seven decades, beginning with their move to California in 1921 and ending with Jacob’s death in 1986. While not all of their fourteen brothers and sisters were equally regular in writing their siblings, for many decades weekly or at least bi-weekly letters were sent to Washington, DC. By the 1940s numerous nieces and nephews were corresponding as well, and many friends were in regular contact, including three boxes of correspondence related specifically to Jacob’s genealogical work. Unfortunately, except for the letters Jacob and Louise sent her parents, the other side of the correspondence is not preserved in this collection (P.U. wrote to his children for almost fifty years, 1921 to 1970). All of the letters from their parents and many earlier letters from siblings are in German.

The collection contains only a small amount of documentation of personal life, and has some materials related to their participation in the congregational church, a community association, a fledgling Washington Mennonite Fellowship, and other activities, but virtually no personal financial records, photos, travels, etc. A large library of Mennonite genealogies, Mennonite history, scientific, and religious volumes also was donated to the MLA. The genealogy and history books almost all duplicated books already in the MLA collection and duplicates were generally not retained.