Scherber / Zerber / Waffel*
Konrad Zerber [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm079.
The agricultural appendix to the 1798 census of Grimm records his name as Konrad Scherber.
This is believed to be the same person as orphan Johann Konrad Waffel (age 19) who is recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 53 along with the Jost Bäcker family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Waffel and Bäcker families.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Scherber/Zerber/Waffel 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): Gm079.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 80.
Brent Mai