Brotherfield Immigrants
English Translation of the 1835 Russian Census of Molotschna.

The 1990 discovery of an 1835 Russian Census of Molotschna Colony was important to the genealogy of Brotherfield Immigrants.

Harvey Dyck describes the remarkable discovery in this Canadian Radio audio recording.

Alan Peters wrote about the significance of the discovery in the Mennonite Historical Bulletin.

Download the Index of all individuals in the census. It can also be read online.

Choose and download the census for a single Molotschna Village.

In progress: Online census for Alexanderthal with notes.