Bernhard Genzel, a farmer, and his wife Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
There is a Widow Maria Margaretha Genzel née Bock recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Household No. Hb06. It is not known whether she is connected to Bernhard Genzel.
The 1767 census records that Bernhard Genzel came from the German village of Ganter [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Hb06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 195.
Brent Mai
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