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This fonds consists of four series:
-1) Epp Diaries, 1837-1843, 1851-1986
-2) Epp Materials, 1788-1811, 1846, 1878-1955
-3) David G. Epp Family Farm Ledgers, 1927-1986
-4) Epp Family Photograph Collection, [1920's?]

"Die wegen Mennonisten-Wesens verlangte Nachrichten, 1788-1827"
digitized from microfilm MF MSS 236: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_236/acc232/
originally were in Staatsarchiv Danzig, Abteilung 145: Domänenämter und Intendaturen, später Domänenrentämter, 1773-1872
at time of microfilming in 1984 they were in the Bydgoszcz archives, sygn. 487, Nr. D-12256

This collection consists of the 95 files which Dr. Rempel selected from the St. Petersburg Archive related to Mennonites which he requested to have microfilmed in 1962. The St. Petersburg (known as Leningrad at the time) Archive holds the documents of the Russian Senate (later referred to as the Duma) for the period of 1789 to 1917.

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].

The St. Petersburg microfilming project grew out of the discovery of a rich collection of documents relating to Mennonites for the period 1789 to 1917 which were housed in the Russian State Historical Archives in St. Petersburg. These documents relate to the Russian Senate and later the Duma.

membership record book scanned from microfilm MF CHR 7 http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_294.php

Joseph Allen Hooley was the son of John C. Hooley and Elizabeth Hertzler Hooley, and his wife, Catherine (Hooley) Hooley was the daughter of David K. Hooley and Fannie (Hertzler) Hooley.  Joseph and Catherine Hooley moved from Mifflin County, Penn. to West Liberty, Ohio in 1904.  Both were members of the (old) Mennonite Church and appear to have made a living farming.

This small set of family papers consists primarily of land records (indentures, deeds, etc., mostly from Mifflin County, Penn.).  Other materials include family account books, farm records, autograph books, estate documents, and a scrapbook containing clippings of poems.

1) Vital statistics - Handwritten notebook & photocopies of genealogy records - (2 files) Box 378
2) 8 maps of southern Ukraine & Europe, 8.5" x 11" - (1 file) Box 378

Scattered family records including family histories, a passport, a birth- and baptism certificate, and assorted correspondence.

A small set of personal papers documeting the life of Ira C. Mast, a Mennonite carpenter and builder in Elkhart, Ind., and his ancestors in the Mast and Plank families.