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FOREWORD: One of the important benefits of FEEFHS membership is access to many individual specialists with expertise in East European linguistics and genealogy.

This database highlights a few of the many FEEFHS professional genealogists and FEEFHS genealogy record searchers known or recommended to us as professionals who are considered reputable in their field of expertise. However FEEFHS makes no such claim or representation.

FEEFHS offers this list on a good faith, best efforts basis, without accepting any liability for their performance, actions or inactions. We are interested in any experiences, positive or otherwise, that might guide our future recommendations.

EDWARD R. BRANDT, Ph.D.
241 Arthur Ave. SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55515-3601
Ed Brandt Genealogy Ed Brandt Genealogy.
Phone: 612-338-2001 (evenings Central Time)

Experience: Accredited Genealogy(1989-99) specializing in German genealogy, specifically including East European Germans, and as a generalist in Eastern Europe. Author and bookseller. Co-founder and former vice-president of FEEFHS who played a major role in the 1994, 1995 and 1996 FEEFHS international genealogical conventions and the 1995 Western regional conference. Worked in Germany more than five years, with extensive on-site research in pre-1785 parish registers and less extensive research in Austria, Poland, Switzerland and France. Learned Gothic script as a child. No longer engaged in researching Family History Library records, but still providing genealogical consultation and problem-solving service via letter, e-mail or telephone, based on personal knowledge and an extensive personal genealogical library. Primary fields of expertise: historic eastern Germany and Rhineland-Palatinate.
Publications:Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns, 3rd ed. expected December 2006-January 2007& co-author with Adalbert Goertz of Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia (Ost- und Westpreussen): Records, Sources, Publications & Events, Modified 2003 Edition; contributed to three other books and authored numerous periodical articles.
Education: Ph.D. in political science, University of Minnesota, 1970. M.A. in international affairs, George Washington University, 1965. B.A. summa cum laude in international relations, University of Minnesota, 1954. Daily individual instruction in Germany while serving there as a Foreign Service officer (2 ½ years), 1958-60, 1965. Last trip to many European countries, 1991.
Rates: $35 minimum and hourly rate for more extended consultation.

RICHARD CARRUTHERS, Professional Genealogist
Flat 214, Blenheim Terrace
3333, West Fourth Avenue
Vancouver
British Columbia V6R 1N6
CANADA
eMail address: leliwite@hotmail.com

Education: B.A. (Honours), Modern History, Oxford University, England.
Background:Professional Genealogist in Canada's Capital from 1991 to 1999. Now he is a resident researcher in British Columbia. Consultant to the Canadian Heraldic Authority, Government House, Ottawa. Staff member, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada L.D.S. Family History Centre. Founder and Chairman, The Bukovina Records Extraction Group (B.R.E.G.).
Professional Skills: Specialist in central and eastern European research with emphasis on ethnic Germans, particularly those of Bukovina and Galicia, in the former Habsburg domains. Also familiar with research into other ethno-cultural communities in what was a very multicultural region (Poles, Ukrainians/Ruthenians, Magyars, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Jews, Gypsies, Italians, Russians etc.).
Author: Author (under the nom-de-plume of Richard Carruthers-Zurowski) of two chapters of German Immigration from Bukovina to the Americas, William Keel and Kurt Rein, editors, Max Kade Center for German American Studies, University of Kansas, July 1996. One chapter covers the conduct of genealogical research in Bukovina: Climbing the Beechwood Tree: Bukovinian Genealogical Research. The other covers the immigration of this ethnic group to Canada: Between Imperial Hinterlands: Canada's Bukovina German Immigrants, 1885-1914
Other publications: Earlier versions of the first chapter have appeared in Family Records Today, the Journal of the American Family Records Association (October 1994), and the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society's Bulletin (June 1995).
Honours: Recipient of the Governor General of Canada's medallion for my paper given at the XXIInd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in Ottawa, Canada (August 1996) entitled, Between Imperial Hinterlands: Reconstituting Families in Bukovina and Saskatchewan, 1775-1940, which outlined the work of the Bukovina Records Extraction Group (B.R.E.G.) -- see the Bukovina Society of the Americas' page, and which will be published next year in the Congress Proceedings.
Language skills: Fluent in English and French. Research knowledge of Latin, German and Polish.
Palaeography: Parish register German, Latin, English, French and some Polish. Other specialties: Heraldry and nobility research. Assistant to the Archivist, The College of Arms, London, England (1986).
Memberships: Society of Genealogists, London, U.K. (since 1982); Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, Regina.
Past Member: Ontario Genealogical Society; British Columbia Genealogical Society (youngest ever member at age 12 in 1976); American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (village coordinator, Schwedengebiet, Kherson Government, Russian Empire); Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Oxfordshire Family History Societies, England.
Research strategy, schedule of fees and expenses: Information available upon request with a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE or International Reply Coupon) or by eMail, as applicable. Generally conduct research in 10-hour blocks with an advance retainer.
Repositories searched: Access to the collections of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City; National Archives of Canada; National Library of Canada; National Archives of Quebec, Hull branch; City of Ottawa Archives; Libraries of the City of Ottawa Public system, the Canadian Heraldic Authority, Ottawa and Carleton Universities. Two hours travel time to Montreal, and five to Toronto for research there. Research contacts in British Columbia and Saskatchewan at my disposal for clients.
Personal Ancestral Research: Zurowski, Sanocka, Karst, Puetz, Bayerle, Hoffmann, Schroeder, Zettel, Fahlmann, Doppermann, Frei, Ehmann, Reilaender.

Dott. SELLERI CHRISTIAN -- Professional Genealogist
Via Bixio 10
34074 Monfalcone, GO
Italia
Telephone: 0039 0481 45880
eMail address: info@familytree.it

Background: A Professional Genealogist from Monfalcone, Gorizia, northeastern Italy, five miles from the Slovenian border. He has 10 years of experience in the following countries and regions: Friuli-Venzia Guilia region of Italy (provinces of Gorizia, Podenone, Trieste, Udine), Istria (now in Croatia), Slovenia, and Hungary.

(MRS.) IRMGARD HEIN ELLINGSON -- Professional Translator, Author, Lecturer and FEEFHS President
P. O. Box 101, 307-4th Avenue
Grafton, Iowa 50440-0101, USA
Telephone: (641) 748-2312 or (641) 748-2323
eMail address: irmgard@WCTAtel.net

Background: I am bilingual from birth, a German and history teacher with bachelor's degrees in political science and history and a master's degree in ministry. I am a longtime member of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), a founding and continuing director of the Bukovina Society of the Americas (BSA), and former U.S. representative for the Wandering Volhynians (now out of publication). My research experience includes work in German, Austrian, Czech, Canadian and U.S. archives.
See also: her listings under Professional Translator and Professional Lecturer.
Publications (partial listing):

• The Bukovina Germans in Kansas: A 200-Year History of the Lutheran Swabians (Hays, KS: Fort Hays State University, 1987)
• Bukovina Networking in FEEFHS Journal 2000
• Illischestie, a Rural Parish in Bukovina; Primary Source Material for Family History, translated / edited from Johann Christian Dressler's unpublished manuscript, Illischestie, eine Landgemeinde in der Bukowina, Quellenmaterial zur Familiengeschichte
• In Lieb und Leid: The Stories of My Great-Grandparents in Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Lincoln, Nebraska, summer 1995)
• Kaczyka: A Catholic Parish in Bukovina, 1844-1891 in East European Genealogist (Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada: 2001)
• Volhynian Legacy" in FEEFHS Journal 2001

Items posted for Irmgard Hein Ellingson on the FEEFHS web site include:

• "Bukovina Immigration to North America and a brief history of the Bukovina Society of the Americas prepared for the Bukowinafest - Brasil 2001" at http://feefhs.org/bukovina/gi/br/ihe-e1.html and http://feefhs.org/bukovina/gi/br/ihe-e2.html
• http://feefhs.org/bukovina/gi/br/ihe-e1.html (English);
• http://feefhs.org/bukovina/gi/br/ihe-p.html (Portuguese)
• Alexanderdorf and Katharinendorf: Evangelical Lutheran Communities in Bukovina from 1863 until 1940 at http://feefhs.org/bukovina/alexdorf.html