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Zeiler (Dobrinka)*

Balthasar Zeiler is recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 112.

Balthasar Seiler is recorded on the 1835-46 communion register of Dobrinka in Household No. 7. There it is recorded that he was born in 1760 in Heidelberg [Germany] and had been confirmed in 1775 in Heidelberg. He arrived in Dobrinka in 1791. He married in 1809 to Maria Regina Bischoff, the widow of an unnamed Hefele. His death on 9 January 1840 is also recorded on the aforementioned communion register.

Pabst (Kind)

Adolf Pabst, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 9; Elisabeth, age 7; Anna Dorothea, age 4; Ludwig, age 4-weeks) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 14. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 17 August 1767.

The widow and children of Adolf Pabst are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd23.

The 1767 census records that Adolf Pabst came from the German village of Großen Buseck.

Tyler Bugner

Tyler Bugner, son of Ed Bugner & Melanie Deines, was born 29 October 1994 in Wichita, Kansas.

Tyler played baseball for Newman University and was drafted as an outfielder in the 21st round of the 2016 Major League Baseball June Amateur Draft to play for the Colorado Rockies.

He later played for the Ashville Tourists and Grand Junction Rockies. He retired in 2018.

Tyler Bugner's Volga German ancestors come from the colonies of Kratzke, Holstein, and Shcherbakovka.

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