Birth note: In J013 0632 birthdate is noted as 3 March 1838.
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O.S. and N.S. refer to Old-Style and New-Style dates. O.S. uses the Gregorian calendar as opposed to the Julian Calendar. Russia used old-style until 1918. Western Europe and colonies switched by the mid-18th century.
birth date was 3 Mar 1838. According to Peter Penner, he settled in Orloff, village #6 in Sagradovka in 1873. He was a stern patriarch, but also a man of impressive artistic and inventive talents. According to a letter in the Menn. Rundschau by his son Dietrich, he died at age 85. This letter also mentions cousins Klaas and Wilhelm Wiebe who immigrated to Minnesota.
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Berlin Document Center A3342 EWZ50
(See the website: http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com
for an index: Mennonite Extracts from the EWZ Files.
Black Sea German Research also has extracts of many EWZ records. Search by name at the website: https://www.blackseagr.org/)
