Spelling Variations
Schmidt (Volmer)
Шмитъ (Volmer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Ludwig Schmidt, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.
The 1767 census records that Ludwig Schmidt came from the German district of Heilbronn.
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): Vm39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 286.
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Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
50.732433, 45.443279
Immigration Locations
52.083333, -109.433333
49.260833, -123.1138
52.139722, -106.6861