Help!! I am having people that are going into our very detailed Germans in Russia colony records and changing the names to the current Russian cities. This is I believe the destruction of a very specific group of colonists that were from Germany and went to Russia to help them with land development. Helpers from your community are correcting all our records to reflect the Russian names from the Germans in Russia colony names. Please CORRECT this. The Germans in Russia history is extremely important to us descendants and this is affecting so many of us. If we want to visit Russia we will look up the village, if nothing else put in the Russian name as a sidebar! Many of our relatives are in our histories and books as from Kassel, Glueckstal Parish, Odessa, Russia - please make a change to your programs. We want our history not erased which is what the conversion is doing! The Germans in Russia colony maps would also be beneficial to our group. Please Please Please do not cancel out our history.

I don't have a PhD in Russian Empire either. I'm sure someone does and can go in and correct FamilySearch placenames - or submit those corrections. Once the database is correct then users will just need to be careful when selecting what Standardized placename (make sure it's for the correct timeframe). But in this case, Germans might continue referring to the German colony name even after the Russification changes ... so it is somewhat ambiguous. I think that is why there are two placename fields - the one you know (or the record shows) and the Standardized ...

Coincidentally, about an hour after posting my last entry, I was listening to someone who is working to improve Ukrainian place names and she mentioned one of these German villages. This one: https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?searchTypeaheadInputText=11825216&text=11825216 You can see that it has been entered with three historical time periods (I have no idea why there is a gap) and the earliest one does have the German name. So this particular village can be entered with this form and it will even have a map pin which generally will keep people from changing it. So there is hope. The trouble is there are so many places in the world that are not in the database and so few people working to improve it. But I do know that the team that works on it does focus on adding and improving places that have been requested by users. So send in your requests.

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May 22, 2022

Some of my place name requests for German colonies in Russia have been acted on. The wait time was a year or so.

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