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German-Russians of the Volga-Canada
Welcome to this website! Be sure to click on our "News Bulletin" below for more additional special features with information and photographs. Included on this site are what I call, "Reference Rooms". Unfortunately, some of these Reference Rooms are not working like they should and therefore need some updating. Ordinarily these rooms would allow you as a visitor to read for yourself what other people have written or are doing within the Volga German-Russian heritage. These Reference Rooms are intended to be informational, culturally relevant and historically valuable for on-going research and interest. You are also invited to write for this web site and provide me with the help to make this site worthwhile for thousands of our readers and visitors to come to. If you have any photographs that you would like to share with us, I will be glad to place them in connection with your story or article. They will remain on the web site for about a month or may be longer, as you have seen. Thank you for your interest and support to this web site. If you plan to email photographs you are kindly asked to email me first and for-warn me that you are sending an attachment, otherwise it will not be used.... because of the virus problems that we have been plaqued with. All emails not identified in advance are garbaged. I make no exceptions, unless I know who is sending and what they are sending me. Thank you!
In the picture above, you see a log house which was built in approximately 1898 along the North Saskatechwan River some 70 Kilometers (or about 90 miles) west of Edmonton, Alberta in Canada, in the district known as Mewassin. This house was the original home of John George Scheideman and his wife Katherine Phenning. The house still stands, only to have known better days. The Scheideman family decendants have for the last 3 years been actively involved in raising money to bring this log structure to the Pioneer Museum in Stony Plain. The house currently stands on big rocks that were originally used as a foundation to rest the logs on. John, (better known as George) Scheideman raised 3 daughters and 6 sons here in this house. As a German-Russian family, the Scheidemans were one of the earliest and first families to arrive here from Norka, Russia. Many other German-Russian families followed. The one person who was the champion supporter of this project, Gordon Scheideman, has now passed away as of Dec. 24, 2006. Unfortunately, the project has also died and is no longer a possibility unless someone decides to do something else with it.
I invite you to return to this site where I expect to have many more historical photographs on display. It would also be very nice if you would encourage others to come to visit this site. Thank you very much!
As a matter of interest, you are invited to come to the German-Russian Historical Museum on the internet by highliting the web address and placing it on your web browser. Here it is:
http://heritagephotos.photium.com/portfolio6886.html and click on 6886 as the code to gain entry to the site.
Another very important site to visit and add your comments or any obits if you like is our blog. You may post your information providing it pertains to the German-Russian culture and heritage. You will understand that advertisements must be submitted to me first, as they may or may not qualify to be included. Periodic checks are made to varify the content from our visitors. I wish to thank one of our visitors who spotted an upload that was inappropriate. I appreciate that kind of vigilance from any and all of our viewers. Help us keep up with a good project like this. Here is the blog address: http://gerruss.blogspot.com
Sincerely,
Reuben Bauer
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Up dated: April 4, 2007.
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