Franz Gerber, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena arrived in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
The widow and children of Franz Gerber are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf30 along with a note that his son Wilhelm Gerber is working in Graf.
In 1849, Konrad Gerber and his family relocated from Schäfer to Friedental.
The 1767 census records that Franz Gerber came from the German village of Kaiserslautern in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1850 Schäfer Census (Households No. 1, 2, 16, 26, 27, 68, 69, 109, 110).
- 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): Sf30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 94.
Brent Mai
Viktor Bleichrot