Village Coordinator:  Jan Stangl

Remarks:  The village of Eigenheim was the first daughter colony in formed in the lower part of Bessarabia.  The founders came from Plotzk (Blum, Hoehn, Janke, Schwandt, and Wilske); from Kulm (Doberstein, Fercho, Gross, Guse, Isaak, Kison, Klukas, Marks, Moewes, Raugust, Schimke, Selcho, Stelter, and Pischel); from Tarutino (Fechner, Graumann, Seefreid, Priebe, Wonneberg, and Zarbock); from Paris (Floether, Jess, and Kern); from Alt Elft (Radke, Reich, and Reinke); from Katzbach (Burgemeister and Schill); from Leipzig (Lemke) and from Gnadental (Bareither, Lebkuch, Nabert, and Riedlinger).

Books
    From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 118)
    Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (Chapter 40, copy available at the GRHS)
    Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.71-72), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 229-230.

Church Records

War Records
    EWZ Records
    DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
    DAI Miscellaneous Reports 
    Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
    Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative  

Supplemental Information
    Bessarabia Head of Household Index
   Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
   Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
   Christian Fiess Indices

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