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Seim*

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Spelling Variations: 
Seim*
Сеймъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Discussion & Documentation: 

Konrad Seim, a single tailor, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Conrad Seim is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Seim came from the German region of Darmstadt.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Seim family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3980.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6081.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies