Johann Georg Schmidtberger, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Herzog on 14 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.
Elisabeth née Reichmaier (age 43), widow of Georg Schmidtberger, and her children (Andreas, age 20; Anna Maria, age 18; Elisabeth, age 14) are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hz23.
Andreas Schmidtberger (age 56) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Herzog in Household No. 68.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Schmidtberger came from the German village of Regensburg.
- 1834 Herzog Census (Household No. 68).
- 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): Hr23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 93.
Brent Mai