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Gänseblum (Louis)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Hans Gänseblum and his siblings settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35 along with his stepfather Hubert Marx.
The 1767 census records that Hans Gänseblum came from the German village of Saarburg in the Kurtrier region.
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ls21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 88.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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