Germans from Russia (Volga Germans)

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Comment by Becky Jamison on July 23, 2009 at 2:12pm

I posted a map on my blog that shows thh Volga German settlements in the US and Canada. Here's a link: http://beckysgraceandglory.blogspot.com/2009/07/volga-german-settlements.html

Comment by Storm Crow on July 18, 2009 at 12:59pm

Hi, I guess I ought to introduce myself- I go by Storm Crow. I am the niece of Emma Schwabenland Haynes, but unfortunately, the genealogy bug didn't hit me until after her death. Before you ask, I barely knew her and do NOT have access to her ground-breaking work. I do have the Schwabenland family photo album and will be posting some up- after my son teaches me how- again! Some of the photos are unidentified. My family settled on the west coast. The family names are Schwabenland, Miller, Kunzel/Kinzel, Giebelhaus, Steitz, Yost, Bier and Glanz. I belong to Ancestry, World Vital Records and a few other sites.

Comment by Sheri Fenley on July 16, 2009 at 1:14pm

My family is from the village of Obermonjou in the Volga river Valley. The entire village were Catholic Germans who came to Russia in 1746. In 1878 the entire village up and moved to the U.S. and founded the town of Munjor, Ellis County, Kansas. Beffort/Befort is my father's side of the family. Other names connected to the Beffort/Befort family are: Ernst, Stecklein, Goetz, Doerfler

Comment by Patrice Houck Schadt on July 15, 2009 at 7:28pm

Our "Schadt" and "Brum" families were in Schilling, Russia in 1764. They immigrated to the United States in the early 1900's and settled in Newark, Essex, NJ; Oswego, Oswego, NY; Lincoln, Nebraska, and Michigan.

Comment by Becky Jamison on July 11, 2009 at 10:34am

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