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This fonds consists of six series:
-1) Church membership ledgers recording vital statistics
-2) Minutes of the brotherhood, ministerial, and finance committee meetings
-3) Financial records, legal documents, and correspondence
-4) Fire insurance records
-5) Bergthaler Waisenamt (aid organization) records
-6) Disbanding of the Organization.

This series consists of two groups of church registers. The first two registers are preliminary records having been used from 1882-1895. The families in these two registers are recorded in four segments. A total of 220 families are recorded; however some families appear in more than one list. The content includes name of husband, wife and children with birth, marriage, baptism and death dates. The second group of registers are the permanent Bergthaler Church of Manitoba church registers begun around 1896 and consisting of nine volumes.

This series consists of three big financial ledgers which record the assets, liabilities and cash on hand of the organization. The series also contains important files containing legal documents and correspondence relating to the dissolution of the Waisenamt. The Waisenamt was an organization originally set up to provide aid to widows and orphans and to distribute inheritance money and property. It had its beginnings with Mennonites in Prussia, however the institution proper came into being on August 31, 1792 in the Russian Mennonite colony of Chortitza. The institution was transported along with the immigrants in 1874 to Canada. In its later years it functioned also as a bank accepting deposits and offering mortgages.

The material in this series includes recordings of the disbanding service of the Bergthaler organization. The service was held in the Altona Bergthaler Mennonite church.

This series consists of the financial records of the large church body. It contains records of each church members contributions and records of the disbursements of outreach committees that the church funded. There are files of correspondence, ledger books and bank statements. The legal documents consist of constitutions, incorporation documents and sale of land documents. There are also the records pertaining to the dissolving of the corporation.

This series consists of registers that were used to record the assessed value of members property, the payment to individuals who lost property and a set of indexes. Also included is the published constitution entitled Verändurung und Ausbesserung der Feuerregeln der Gegenseitigen Mennonitischen Brandordnug (Altona, Man., 1919).

This series consists of minutes of meetings from the finance committee, brotherhood meetings, ministerial meetings, Arden church and Camp Moose Lake. The decisions made in the early portion of the church’s history were made by the ministerial or the brotherhood. In 1929 the finance committee was established and began to make decisions and create records. The Altona Bergthaler Church Naehverein (sewing circle) has four notebooks of records in this series.