Seil (Ober-Monjou)

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Seil (Ober-Monjou)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Adam Seil, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87.

The 1767 census records that Adam Seil came from the German village of Elfershausen.

Sources: 

- 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): Om55.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 309.

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Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies