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Customs, Traditions, and Memories
These customs, traditions, and memories have been generously shared by persons of German-Russian heritage and members of the Germans from Russia Listserve. Contributions are welcome and can be sent to Michael Miller at Michael.Miller@ndsu.edu.

Alfred Opp Memories
- 1781 - 1941 A Walk in the Shadow of Our History
- A Bessarabian German Happy New Year
- Child Rearing - Love, Words and Rod
- Froeliche Wienachten
- Hand Sickles for Harvesting in Teplitz, Bessarabia
- Hefariebala and the German Bake Oven
- How the East Was Won - Part I
- How the East Was Won - Part II
- I do. . . . A Marriage Made to Fit
- In the Shadow of Time
- Memories of Christmas Food
- Memories of Ostern (Easter) in Teplitz, Bessarabia
- Mischt for Fuel
- Powdered Milk and Other Discoveries
- Schwabian Burial Customs
- Something from Nothing - Lumpen-Schuhe and Other Treasures
- Spiritual Training of German-Russian Children and Youth
- To busy! No time!, Ich habe Keine Zeit
- War Costs More than Money - Part I
- War Costs More than Money - Part II
- War Costs More than Money - Part II I
- War Costs More Than Money - Part IV
- Weapons for Peace - A New Start for a New Time
- XYZ - After the Tears, the Vision
Barnyard Calling
Brooms
The Cane Story
Christmas
- Christmas
- Christmas and German Russian Family Traditions
- Christmas Celebrations Long Ago
- Christmas Customs in the Black Sea Area
- Christmas in Germany in the 1940s
- Christmas - Knecht Ruprecht
- Christmas Memories
- Christmas Memories
- Christmas Traditions
- Christmas Traditions: My Childhood Memories
- Christmas traditions of the Mehlhaff family of Oregon
- German-Russian Christmas of 1880
- Grandpa Salomons's German Christmas Tree, By Thomas Mueller
Counties, Towns, & Villages
- Blueroom Dance Hall in Strasburg, ND
- Electricity near Fredonia, North Dakota
- Electricity near Streeter, North Dakota
- Glueckstal/Freudenthal Villages
- Jesser Farm, Baca County, Colorado
Easter
- Easter Bread
- Easter German Tradition
- Easter Memories
- Easter Memories
- Easter Memories
- Easter Memories
- Easter Memories
- Easter Memories from the Childhood Growing Up in Southern Ukraine
- Easter Memories - Good Friday
- Easter Memories - Noodles and Prunes on Good Friday
- Easter - Mennonite Brethren
Entertainment
- Childhood Games
- Cricket
- Folk Humor
- Game of "Shtraela, Maela"
- Homemade Toys & Pranks
- Songs
Family
- German-Russian Grandparents
- Grandmother Christina nee Schweikert Hein
- Memories of Jack W. Hoffman
Farming
- Binding, Shocking, Heading and Threshing of Wheat in Kansas
- Header and Farming
- The Header and Shocking in the Grain Fields
- Header Box and Harvesting
- Heddering and Bindering
- Stooking in Alberta, Canada
- Threshing
- Threshing
- Threshing and Schocks in the Grain Fields
- Wheat Harvesting
Food
- Butchering Day
- Cheese
- Cream Separators and Cows in General
- Ethnic food on the Northern Plains
- German and Russian Holiday Foods
- Kholodetz (Pig's Feet)
- Kuga, German-Russian Christmas cooking
- Pickling in Bessarabia
- Roger's Golden Syrup Pails
- Root Beer
- Schnaepple
- Thanksgiving
Gopher Tails
Holidays
- Holiday Traditions
- Mother's Day
- Mother's Day II
- New Year
Home Medicinal Remedies
House construction
Language
Norka Days at Stony Plain, Alberta & Memories
Old Country
Pelznickel and Kristkind
Pied Piper of Leola
Prayer
Stoneboat
Washing
Weddings
- Courtship Customs
- Bride's Dance
- Bride's Dance
- Bridesmaid and Best Man
- A Wedding Celebration
- Wedding Traditions
- Weddings
- Weddings
Witchcraft

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