Johann Jakob Ganser, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Maria, and son Ernst (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16 along with his new wife Maria Katharina and her son Wilhelm Karl Graf (age 12).
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Ganser came from the German village of Colmar in the Elsass region.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Lb54.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 23.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2193.
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