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This fonds consists of a number of categories of materials created and collected by its founder Abram A. Vogt, and subsequent volunteer staff. The oldest item is a book by Menno Simons published in 1556 entitled Die Fundamente der seligmachenden Lehre unsers Hern Jesu Christi. Most of the published [Series 3] and unpublished genealogies and family histories were published in the 20th century with most of them bewteen 1960 and 2004. Collection contains a Historical Library of 1155 published titles related to Mennonite history and genealogy. Unpublished Mennonite genealogical collections is another category of materials [Series 1]. There are over 200,000 cards in a genealogy card index (entitled Kartei) [Series 4]. There is a substantial collection of biographical newspaper clippings (entitled the Aktei) and geographical/event newspaper clippings (entitled Chronik) [Series 2]. The MGI photograph collection contain photo of individuals, families and organizations [Series 5]. There are 37 maps related to Mennonite history. The collection contains the correspondence from the MGI Office with researchers [Series 6]. There are also electronic records -- both related to administration of the collection and also various genealogical databases in PAF and BK formats.
The MGI holdings also contained the following separate fonds or collections: a) Mennonite Benevolant Society - Bethania fonds, b) Agnes Kettler collection, c) Anna Vogt fonds, d) A.K. Friesen letter collection, e) Katherine H. Loewen collection (to be described separately).

This collection of material consists of financial records from 1879-1880 and 1889-1890, two church or village registers and a fire insurance register. The first village register contains entries up to 1890 and the other up to 1925.

This fonds consists of 8 series:
-1) Legal documents, 1971-1991
-2) Minutes, 1972-1991
-3) Correspondence, 1972-1991
-4) Finances, 1974-1991
-5) Books, 1974-1990
-6) Indexes, lists, and catalogues related to the Mennonite Mirror, 1980-1990
-7) Surveys, 1984-1985, 1990
-8) Brock Publishing, 1971-1992.

This fonds consists of seven series:
-1) Minutes, 1980-1989
-2) Financial ledgers, 1981-1987
-3) Financial files, 1981-1991
-4) Correspondence, 1981-1990
-5) MURP properties and their administration, 1974-1988
-6) MURP-tenant relations, 1983-1987
-7) MURP objectives and operation, 1977-1989.

This collections consists mainly of the village books covering the period 1875-1936, with a few gaps. The records record financial affairs of the village such as the levies on village inhabitants. There are also a set of community announcements (1917-1918), contracts with village teachers and shepherds, property transactions and other miscellaneous papers(1881-1904).

This fonds includes the mayor's records for the civic administration of the village of Rosenort. There are reserve-wide directives that related to all 37 villages of the Reinländer Mennonite church. Also included are the financial records for each family such as the Brotschult, agreements with teachers and shepherds, the original by-law of the Municipality of Rhineland, school records, and the record of assistance given to widows.

This material shows the organization of the pioneering Reinländer Mennonite church that contributed to their success of establishing thriving communities on the open prairies. It documents the growth and development of the Rosenort area as well as the larger Mennonite community of the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve.

This collection contains records pertaining from at least 6 different fonds in the State Archive of the Zaporozhe Region. They include the Berdyansk Uezd Steppe Forestry Department (Fond 250), the Alexandrovsk Uezd Land Survey Commission (Fond 230), the Melitopol Uezd Statistical Bureau (Fond 255), the Berdyansk Uezd Land Survey Office (Found 263), the A.A. Koop Agricultural Equipment and Machinery Factory (Fond 158) and the Zaporozhe Okrug Executive Committee (Fond 316). The materials focus roughly on four themes – forestry, description of land and estate possessions, business correspondence and emigration.

This collection consists of sermons or other writings of 166 individuals, sermons with no author given which were read numerous times by a particular branch of the Mennonite church, biographies of a number of missionaries, photographs of approximately 90 of the Mennonite ministers and some miscellaneous material.

This collection is divided into 3 parts (divisions of the State Archive of the Zaporozhye Region):
-A. Tsarist-Era (9 fonds selected out of 43 that were identified as having Mennonite-related documents)
-B. Soviet-Era (16 fonds selected out of 129 that were identified as having Mennonite-related documents)
-C. Communinist Party documents (4 fonds were selected)

Before 1917, five Mennonite multi-village settlements existed within the present-day Zaporozhe region, each constituting a separate administrative volost: the Khonitsa and Molochna
mother settlements; and the Mariupol/Bergthal (1836-1871), Nikolaipole (Yazykovo), and Schoenfeld daughter settlements. Many had their own volost couns, banks, hospitals, and educational institutions. Also dispersed throughout the region were private Mennonite khutor-farmsteads and estates. In villages, towns and cities Mennonites owned factories, plants, mills, were actively involved in the trades and handicrafts, and participated in town and uezd Zemstvo councils.

Special strengths of the Tsarist era fonds, which make up about 25 percent of all Mennonite-related fonds, pertain to: the Nikolaipole volost administration; Mennonite-owned
farm implement factories in the Khortitsa volost; afforestation programs dating from the 1840s to the early 20th century (including service records of the Forstei, the alternative state afforestation service program for Mennonites); uezd statistical and land survey materials for Khorutsa volost and for Mennonite estates; and Mennonite enrollment and attendance at secondary schools in Aleksandrovsk. The Archive also holds smaller fonds on institutions ranging from courts and banks to the Maria School for the Deaf and Mute in Tiege.

The Archive's Soviet-era holdings are divided into state administrative and Communist Party fonds. These materials were housed in separate archives until the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, when the Party Archive was administratively integrated into the State Archive. In general it might be said that State Archive documents, generated by Soviet administrative organs, reflect what was happening in a region, while Party Archive documents often help to explain why.

State administrative fonds are richest for the period 1919 to the summer of 1930. The Civil War, the middle years of NEP, and the period of collectivization are especially well documented. The Khonitsa raion experience (including that of Mennonites of the former Nikolaipole volost) is extraordinarily well documented at all levels-okrug, volost/raion and village selsovet.

Turning to the Communist Party level, it should be noted that four significant fonds relating to the Mennonite experience exist. Indeed, such records for Khortitsa raion in the 1920s,
at the okrug, raion and selsovet levels, appear to have survived more or less intact. The sheer volume of such materials gives evidence of the preoccupation of the Party, from the central committees in Kharkov and Moscow to the Khortitsa raion, with Mennonites, who were a difficult ethno-religious minority for the Party to deal with given their relatively great social solidarity and resistance to the social-discriminatory and anti-religious facets of sovietization. Comparatively few Party records have survived for the Molochna Mennonites during the 1920s. Party records for the 1930s, on the other hand, are quite numerous for the Molochna Mennonite settlement, but virtually nonexistent for the Khortitsa raion. But such 1930s Party records are in general far less frank and revealing than for the preceding decade, the 1920s.

[excerpts from H.L. Dyck and A.S. Tedeev guide to the holdings, pp. xv,xvi].

This fonds consists of correspondence (1915-1942), letters of Nickolas Wiens and others (1887), an account book from the family estate in Russia covering 1889-1917 (most likely created by George N. Rempel's father), miscellaneous documents and information realted to the Taschtschenak and Brosdsky etstaes owned by Martens and Schroeder. This includes a plan lay-out of the Martens estate. Some of the correspondence has been transcribed into Latin letters. The transcriptions have the identification number corresponding to the copy of the original in the upper right hand side.

This fonds consists of correspondence and other documents concerning the Canadian Committee for the Reunification of Families Separated by the Second World War in its efforts of information gathering and advocacy.

This fonds contains correspondence, receipts, and other documents related to Johann's farming and business operation, and to his intermittent service in the municipal government. It also contains family correspondence and diaries containing personal notes by Johann and by his wife, Margaretha. Most of the material consists of handwritten originals.

The materials in this fonds consists of eight diaries covering 18 years written by Anna Sawatzky (born Anna Funk) and some Mennonite private and public school textbooks used by Abram Friesen and Abram Driedger. The diaries are factual in nature showing little of the author's emotions but showing the activities of the author, immediate and extended family, the weather, and events taking place at church on Sunday morning. Also included is some poetry collected by Anna Sawatzky and a 29 page "Funk Familie Register". The diaries are an example of the life of an ordinary Southern Manitoba Mennonite housewife's life. The educational materials are an example of the kinds of resources the Mennonites used in their public and private school systems during the first two decades of the 20th century in Manitoba.

This collection consists of correspondence among the J.J. Siemens family predominantly from daughter Viola and son John when they were in college in the United States and to a lesser degree from J.J. Siemens and his wife Marie Siemens. There are some speeches and correspondence by J.J. Siemens related to the Rhineland agricultural Society, Consumer's Cooperative, Co-op Vegetables Oils Ltd., and cooperatives generally as well as newspaper clippings. Publications regarding co-operatives and Mennonite History are also found in this fonds. There is one small file consisting of correspondence and research notes regarding the writing of a Siemens biography.

This material gives a glimpse into the life of J.J. Siemens as an important individual in western Canada and the Mennonite community. The documents show some of his activities with co-operatives and agriculture. This collection also gives a window into the lives of his adult children and Siemens family dynamics.

This fonds consists of the diaries of Johann H. Schroeder, 1921-1945, totaling eight books. They document his life. The diaries were begun by Johann H. Schroeder after the negotiations with the Manitoba government convincing some people to emigrate to Paraguay. On December 31, 1921, he passed the diary on to his invalid son Johann (1891-1944) who continued the diary, writing about his father's activities. After young Johann's death the diary was continued by the youngest son Gerhard (1893-1959). At the back of the diaries is a list of people who have died in the years the diary covers. The eighth book is a book of letters.

There also is a collection of religious tracts, three of which Schroeder wrote.