Georg Merkel, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 26 November 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
Georg Merkel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz103.
The death of Georg Merkel in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Balzer in Household No. 138.
The 1767 census records that Georg Merkel came from Switzerland.
- 1834 Balzer Census (Households No. 138, 191)
- 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): Bz103.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 75.
Brent Mai
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