Andreas Damm, son of Johannes Georg Damm & Catharina Eisen, was born 23 September 1739 in Bühl, southwest of Baden-Baden (today in the state of Baden-Württemberg).
Andreas Damm, a blacksmith, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.
Johann Jakob Damm, son of Johann Nicolaus & Anna Elisabetha Damm, was born on 25 July 1731 in Kriegsfeld in the Kurpfalz (now in Rheinland-Pfalz) northwest of Mannheim.
He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1760. He married Catherina Elisabeth Heinrich and they and their two children (Johann Heinrich, b. 1761, and Anna Christina, b. 1763). In 1763, they joined the immigrated to Russia and settled in the colony of Schilling. They are recorded there on the 1775 Census of Schilling in Household No. 42.
Jacob Balthasar Binder, son of Caspar Binder, married Margaretha Doebele, daughter of Friedrich Doebele, on 10 Oct 1728 in the Evangelical Church in Erlenbach, about 4 kilometers northeast of Heilbronn city, in Baden-Württemberg.
Franz Heinrich Becker Sr., son of Johann Peter Becker, married on 11 February 1745 in the Fränkisch-Crumbach Evangelical (Lutheran) Church to Elisabetha Daab, daughter of Benedict Daab. Elisabetha had been born on 24 January 1726 in Brensbach, a village 4.3 kilometers north of Fränkisch-Crumbach.
Johann Simon Becker married Susanna Wetzel in 1746 in the Reformed Church of Dannstadt.
They had three known children, each born in Dannstadt: (1) Johannes, baptized 28 November 1751; (2) Georg Adam, born 20 November 1757, baptized 27 November 1757; and (3) Heinrich, born 15 March 1762.
Johannes Bauer was born 26 October 1719 in Nieder-Kinzig. He married 3 November 1740 in Höchst im Odenwald to Elisabeth Katharina Schmidt.
At least six children were born in Germany before departure for Russia: (1) Katharina Elisabeth, born 24 January 1744 in Pfirschbach; (2) Anna Margaretha, born 6 December 1747 in Ober-Kinzig; (3) Johann Jacob, born 14 August 1750 in Pfirschbach; (4) Johann Georg; (5) Anna Sophia; and (6) Eva Margaretha, born 27 January 1761.
Johannes Adler and Anna Dorothea Dey were married 30 November 1729 in Langendiebach. They have one known son, Johannes, born 3 May 1748 in Gettenbach, today part of the Gründau municipality. Anna Dorothea Dey had been born 23 May 1708 in Mittelgründau. The Dey line can be traced back several generations in Mittelgründau.
Son Johannes arrived in Russia with his widowed mother. They settled in the colony of Kolb on 13 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
Johann Jacob Horn, son of Paulus Horn & Maria Dorothea Kessler, was born on 14 November 1734 and baptized on 21 November 1734 in the Evangelical Church of Steinbach, today part of the parish of Fernwald. He married to Anna Catharina Schneider, daughter of Heinrich Schneider & Maria Dorothea Petri, on 30 July 1760 in the same church. Anna Catharina had been baptized there on 2 November 1735.
They had two known children, each baptized in Steinbach: (1) Johann Caspar, on 25 December 1761; and (2) Anna Margaretha, on 23 September 1764.
The Reverend John N. Sauer was born on 12 January 1890 in Mannsburg, Bessarabia (Russia). He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1901 aboard the S.S. Lahn and settled in Lind, Washington. He graduated from Redfield Seminary in 1920, after which he served as circuit riding pastor in Burt, North Dakota.
The Rev. Laureno Sitzman serves as the president of the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana del Paraguay (IELP) (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Paraguay). Pastor Sitzman traces his Volga German ancestors to the colony of Frank.