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Volume 2222
Church membership ledgers. (photocopies)
-1. Bergthal colony church registers, litter A. – 1843-1876.
-2. Index of Bergthal colony church registers. – [198-?].
-3. Index of Bergthal colony church registers. – [198-?].
-4. Bergthal colony church register, litter B. – 1843-1876.
-5. Bergthal colony church register litter A. – 1843-1876.

This sub series consists of "Teilungs Kontrakt." which is a type of last will and testament, and was used by Mennonites for hundreds of years, even before coming to Manitoba. Usually, upon the death of a spouse, 50% of the estate was given to the surviving spouse and the other half evenly divided among the children. If the children were minors, the money plus interest was held in trust until they reached the age of majority. If the children were minors and both parents had died, guardians were appointed. Over time the secular "will and last testament" became the norm, a large part of the function of the Waisenamt disappeared. Money held in trust could be lent out, and interest gathered. Abbreviations in the records often represent names of respective Waisenamt managers: DW – Diedrich Wiebe; CTF – Cornelius T. Friesen; HGK – Hein G. Klippenstein; JE – Jacob Enns. Note: when the term "(bound)" is used in regards to several of the Estate Appraisals & Valuations files, where documents have been bound loosely (with string) after the fact. In some cases the binding may be such that facing pages are not related to each other. These files will have a special printout explaining how to navigate the volume.
Location: Volume 6311.

Microfilm #189
Jacob D. Epp diary. - 1851-1853. (diary No. 1)
Volume 1016
2 Photocopy of Jacob D. Epp diary. - 1851-1853.
Volume 2169
1 Original Jacob D. Epp diary. - Dec. 28 1859 - May 10 1871. (diary No. 4)
Volume 4639
1 Transcription of the Jacob D. Epp diary. - Dec. 28 1859 - May 10 1971.
Volume 1016
3 Jacob Epp diary. - May 11 1871 - Dec. 9, 1880 . (diary No. 5). NOTE: The diaries listed to this point have been translated and edited by Harvey L. Dyck in the published book A Mennonite in Russia : The Diaries of Jacob D. Epp 1851-1880 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Volume 4639
3 Original Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp Family, 1870-1890. (diary No. 6) Extraction of marriages recorded in this diary prepared by Ted Harder.
Volume 2432
4 Transcription of the Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp, Family. 1870-1890.
Volume 4639
4 Translation and photocopy of original Genealogical Register of the Jacob D. Epp Family

This subseries 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 Box 255

This sub series consists of letters from David Goertz to his family.
1) Photocopied letters are faint and hard to read. They are in the Gothic script. 1863 - Box 232

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Eigengrund, established 1866, 1 file, village map
2) Felsenbach, established 1864, 1 file, village map
3) Friesendorf, established 1924, 1 file, village map
4) Heuboden, established 1865, 1 file, village map
5) Lenintal, established 1928, 1 file, village map
6) Neu Chortitza, established 1872, 1 file, village map
7) Rotfeld, established 1926, 1 file, no map
8) Sternhof, established 1924, 1 file, village map
9) Pjatichatki Statistics. 1 file
10 Pjatichaatki Summary Reports 1921-1942 Box 256

Series consists of the following file:
1) A letter from prisoner Andrei Pedasenko, a Russian young man, who was detained for proclaiming his conversion to Christianity.
He thanks his Brothers in the German colonies of Khortitza for their Christian witness. A copy of the letter written in the gothic script is translated into English 9 pages. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
John B. Toews received a letter from Victor Dirks who located an obituary of his grandfather Cornelius Heinrich Warkentin, 1865-1936.
A Family Group record is included in this file. - (1 file) Box 232

This sub series consists of hard-cover ledgers detailing the financial transactions recording the day-to-day income and disbursements. Each page gives the running totals at the bottom which are forwarded to the top of the corresponding next page. These ledgers reveal the amounts that were handled by the Waisenamt both in its function as a trust company for the orphans and widows, and those amounts that pertained to its function as a bank. Note: Files #14 & #15 were not digitized.
Location: volume 6317.