Germans from Russia to hold convention in Spokane

The Germans from Russia Heritage Society will hold its 44th annual convention July 23-27, 2014 in Spokane at The Davenport Hotel & Tower. Convention registration is open to the public and includes workshops, meals, entertainment and socializing.

Activities include a tour of the local area, full access to the GRHS bookstore and workshops on history, genealogy, and culture of the Germans from Russia. Among the topics are history, Palouse wheat farming, using DNA, German cooking workshops and making “schnapps,” using computers for research, genealogy books, and presentations about areas of the Black Sea Germans as well as the Volga Germans. This year we also celebrate the 250th anniversary of the first German colony, Dobrinka, in Russia.

The Germans from Russia Heritage Society is an active international organization of the descendants of one of the largest ethnic groups to settle in the U.S. and has its headquarters in Bismarck, N.D.

Visit http://www.grhs.org/chapters/westcoast/inland/html/what_s_new.html for more information and to register.

No Internet? Call GRHS headquarters at 701-223-6167 to have the needed forms mailed to your address. For questions, contact Valerie Ingram at 509-220-6321.