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 our 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.
Setschanfeld Church Records
We have a very small collection of Setschanfeld church records (baptisms 1940-1944) and additional records scattered among the church records of Zichydorf and Gross Gaj, however there are occasional missing pages. One of our members found some missing Setschanfeld pages from the Gross Gaj records at Archives of Vojvodina. Here is the link: https://maticneknjige.org.rs/en
She enlarged the map to the area she was interested in, and clicked on Veliki Gaj, and then chose the religion, type of record, and year.
Ernsthausen Spreadsheet
Several years ago, we attempted to acquire church records for the village of Ernsthausen. The custodians would not permit the records to be photographed, but they would allow a researcher to manually copy the information into a spreadsheet. We hired a researcher for this huge project at major expense. To recoup our expense, we attached a large price. Unfortunately, that has deterred almost everyone from purchasing this package. There doesn’t seem to be much point in retaining this asset where no one can use it, so we are adjusting the price to $25.
Donauschwaben Map
The Germans from Russia have created a detailed Google map of the German villages in South Russia (today’s Ukraine) including many details about each village. Someone began to create a similar map for the Donauschwaben but never completed it. For the Banat it seems they began alphabetically with villages beginning with A and got as far as D but no further. I tried unsuccessfully to track down the creator in the hope of adding more villages. Maybe something will develop in the future. In the meantime, if you are interested in Banat villages beginning with the letters A to D, try out this link Donauschwaben – Google My Maps
Georgshausen, Setschanfeld, Alt Letz
If your research leads you to one of these villages, check out https://www.georgshausen.com/en
ZVA Regina Branch Meeting
Regina Branch will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 26, 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
http://www.facebook.com/ZichydorfVillageAssociation
email: gschwartz@accesscomm.ca