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Johann Bernhardt Sorg, son of Peter & Anna Elisabetha Sorg, was born on 24 August 1742 and baptized on 26 August 1742 in the Evangelical Church in Gross-Zimmern, 10 kilometers east of Darmstadt. He married Anna Margaretha Abel on 5 July 1763 in the same church. Anna Margaretha, daughter of Michael & Anna Elisabetha Abel, had been born on 27 August 1733 in Litzelsachsen and baptized on 30 August 1733 in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Bad Dürkheim, about 20 kilometers west of Mannheim.

The following children of Jacob & Catharina Sorberger were baptized in the Lutheran Church in Aulendiebach: (1) Johann Heinrich, baptized 6 May 1753; (2) Henrietta Cornelia Catharina Louisa, baptized 3 March 1755; (3) Catharina Maria, baptized 5 March 1758; (4) Johannes, baptized 18 April 1760; (5) Abraham Georg, baptized 17 January 1762; and (6) Johanna Wilhelmina, baptized 27 December 1763. Jacob Sorberger is recorded as a schoolteacher.

Paul Söpp was born in Herbstein, between Giessen & Fulda, on 26 April 1743.

He immigrated to Russia, arriving from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of skipper Christian Korsholm. He died during the transport from Oranienbaum to the Volga colonies.

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

Johann Michael Sinner, son of Christian Sinner, was baptized on 25 April 1717 in Rinderbügen, northeast of Büdingen. He married Erneseine Knab.

Johann Michael Sinner & Erneseine Knab had at least the following children whose baptisms are recorded in Rinderbügen: (1) Louisa Juliana, baptized 22 January 1747; and (2) Johann Wilhelm, baptized 12 May 1755.

Erneseine Sinner née Knab died 29 April 1759 in Rinderbügen. Johann Michael Sinner remarried to Anna Margaretha Hargearoder.

Johann Peter Simon was born 2 May 1743 in Rossdorf bei Darmstadt, son of Johann Daniel Simon (b. 12 March 1715) and Catharina Elisabetha Koop (b. 5 January 1723).

Johann Peter Simon, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the galliot Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767. Johann Peter is recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 57 along with a note that his wife had died 7 November 1767. 

Georg Gottfried Simon, a son of Peter Simon & Philippina Küpperts, was baptized on 21 July 1732 in the Lutheran Church in Haßloch. He married to Barbara Hatzenböhler on 23 May 1758 in the same church.

They had three known children, each baptized in Haßloch: (1) Johann Jost, baptized 23 October 1759; (2) Johann Georg, baptized 7 June 1761; and (3) Georg Daniel, baptized 5 December 1763.

Hans Michael Siegwardt, son of Christoph Siegwarth (b. 5 December 1700) and Anna Maria Mäulen (b. 4 March 1703/04), was born on 20 March 1730/31 in Metzingen, Württemberg. He married in 1756 in Wiernsheim, Württemberg, to Regina Dorothea Spielmann, daughter of Michael Heinrich Spielmann & Anna Margaretha Größle. She was born on 10 September 1735 in Wiernsheim.

Johann Adam Seib was born in 1717 in Nierstein, a town located 29 kilometers north of Worms in the modern German State of Rhineland-Palatinate. He married on 14 April 1744 to Maria Elisabetha Vooss, the daughter of Johann Valentin & Agness Maria Vooss, in the Catholic Church in Guntersblum, 10 kilometers south of Nierstein. Maria Elisabetha had been baptized in this church on 13 January 1726.

Jacob Balthasar Schwartzkopf, son of Johann Jacob Schwartzkopf & Maria Agatha Mögess, was born in Pfaffenhofen, Württemberg, on 19 December 1721. He married there on 25 May 1745 to Maria Salomae Wössner, daughter of Johann Michael Wössner & Maria Salomae Schurer. She was born 9 September 1720, also in Pfaffenhofen. They had a number of children in Pfaffenhofen before immigrating to Schleswig-Holstein (Denmark).

Johann Conrad Simon, son of Jacob Simon & Eva Böhm, was born 29 February 1720 in Ramholz. Maria Katharina Buch, daughter of Johann Felix Georg Buch & Drusiana Elisabeth Schäfer, was born on 28 June 1717 in Merxheim.

Johann Conrad Simon married Maria Catharina Buch on 17 September 1743 in the Lutheran Church of Merxheim, located 56 kilometers southwest of Mainz.