Sustaining Donations
From its founding in 1996 until 2023, ZVA encouraged voluntary membership dues to support it financially. This entailed the collection of personal information of contributors. However, the increasing complexity, expense, and liability imposed by privacy laws has created a burden that is too great for such a small organization to bear.
Beginning in 2023 ZVA will no longer collect membership dues or the personal information of members. We hope, however, that you will contribute financially to the maintenance of this site through anonymous donations. We encourage you to pay an annual $10 to help operate the association. The operating funds support our Internet web site and other projects to discover and preserve our heritage.
In addition, we request a one-time contribution of $25 from first-time users to support our library fund. We, in turn, contribute your donation to a dedicated fund at the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society (SGS) which purchases items we specify. Canadians will receive a tax receipt from the SGS for their charitable contributions.
Once you have completed your selections on the Donation page, note the total and click Submit to send your order details. Clicking on Submit no longer takes you directly to PayPal. To make payment, go to PayPal.com and send payment to zvapayments@myaccess.ca. (Our PayPal account is US dollars only.) You do not need a PayPal account of your own. You may use your credit card on our account. Alternatively, you may make cheques payable to: Zichydorf Village Association, 2114 E Laurier Cres., Regina, SK, Canada, S4V 0P6.
Thanks for your support.
Cadastre Records
As most of you are aware, ZVA has an extensive collection of Banat church records at https://www.zichydorfonline.org/church-records-digital-images/ as well as the Zichydorf church records at https://www.zichydorfonline.org/church/. These collections are well used by many Banat researchers. However, our collection of cadastre records is vastly under used.
What are cadastre records? They are land records that describe the boundaries of a territory (typically a municipality in scale) and list the landowners, describing what land they own. Our collection of cadastre records is smaller than the church record collection, focused more closely on Zichydorf and nearby villages. We have records for Bioseg, Heideschütz, Georgshausen, Gross Gaj, Setschanfeld, Ürmenhausen, and Zichydorf in addition to one village farther afield: Apfeldorf/Jabuka. In some cases, we have two or three different surveys several years apart. For more information go to https://www.zichydorfonline.org/cadastre-land-records/.
Gleisinger (Kleisinger) Family History
The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society has just posted in its Bulletin regarding a book on this family’s history by Garth Gleisinger. Apparently, Garth produced and donated it in 2015, but it never made it on to their listing. This self-produced family history is not a bound volume, but a ring-binder of page protected sheets. Although not a print shop production, it is very high quality and one I would be proud to call my own. It is very well organized, laid out, sourced, and presented. It discusses the family origins before Banat, some Banat history, family movement within Banat, migration to Canada, and the growth of the family in Canada. There are maps and many pictures and documents. I particularly enjoyed Garth’s personal reflections on the family members that he knew, so that we can know them a little bit too. This book is located in the Family Histories section of the library rather than the Banat section where most of our collection resides.
Garth, if you receive this, please contact me at the email below.
Connections Between Germans in Hungary and Russia
Some of you may be aware of connections between your Banat family and relatives in Russia. You might find the following story from Tim Grad interesting.
What happened to 6th great grandmother (6GGm) Anna Maria Groh?
This vignette is an example of how researching the family history of Germans who migrated to the Russian Empire can cross over into German migrations to Hungary.
Anna Maria Groh (or Grau) married my 6th great grandfather (6GGf) Jean (or Johann) Grad in November 1725, in Walschbronn, Moselle, Lorraine, France. After their first child was born there in 1726, the family moved to nearby Trulben, in the Pirmasens area of the Rhineland-Palatinate, where Jean Grad was employed as a teacher. Their son and my 5th great grandfather Michael Grad Sr. and some more siblings were born in Trulben. Michael Grad Sr.’s son Michael Jr. and his family emigrated to the Odesa area of the Russian Empire in the summer of 1803, and eventually some their descendants arrived in Saskatchewan between 1886 and 1892.
However, back in Trulben, 6GGf Jean Grad died in April 1735 and 6GGm Anna Maria remarried a younger Johann Peter Roth later that year. The two had seven more children in Trulben and nearby Eppenbrunn, but I could not find any evidence of the family after 1749.
A family tree in Geneanet.org had the Johann Peter Roth family emigrating to Csátalja (German: Tschatali), Bács-Kiskun, Hungary, and cited the Collection of Danube Swabian colonists (Stader (1997-2017), Vol. VI, No. 45028. I also found information for this Roth family, and other Roth families from Trulben, at https://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/famlist.php?ofb=tschatali&b=A&lang=de. [As this village reference is only in German, it helps to open it in the Chrome browser and have it automatically translated to English.]
I expect to be checking out Sammelwerk donauschwäbischer Kolonisten, Tiel VI, by Stefan Stader, from the Zichydorf library to confirm this source information.
ZVA Regina Branch Meeting
Regina Branch will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, September 29, at Access Communications, 2250 Park St. (north door by the ball diamonds). Please press the buzzer to notify an employee to open the door. Please mark your calendar and bring along a Zichydorf friend.
Zichydorf Village Association Newsletter
edited by: Glenn Schwartz
2114 E Laurier Cres., Regina, SK, S4V 0P6
Internet: http://zichydorfonline.org
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email: gschwartz@accesscomm.ca