Richland Center, Richland Co., Wisconsin
Volga German families settled in and around Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Volga German families settled in and around Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Anna Elisabeth, the widow of Johann Adam Jäckel, and her daughter Maria Katharina Jäckel (age 10) are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn11.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jäckel family among the Volga German colonies.
Peter Uhrich [sic], a farmer, and his wife Catharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Peter Uhrig [sic] and his wife Cunigunda [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Uhri, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 87. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
To celebrate the 260th Anniversary of the founding of Dobrinka (the first Volga German colony founded on 29 June 1764), Dr. Brent Mai, Dean of Libraries at the Wichita State University and director of the Volga German Institute, will be providing a Volga German genealogy workshop from 1:00-7:00 p.m. in the Ablah Library on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, 29 June 2024.
Dr. Brent Mai, Director of the Volga German Institute, will be leading a tour to Germany in 2024 that will the ancestral homes of the Volga Germans before they left for Russia in the 1760s. This tour will begin on 18 May 2024 in Munich and end on 1 June 2024 in Munich.
Volga German families settled in and around Milton-Freewater, Oregon.
Volga German families settled in Silt, Colorado.
Volga German families settled in and around Merriman, Nebraska.
Volga German families relocated to Mariupol and the surrounding areas.