Heinrich Meisner (age 58), a Michinis [?], and his wife Gertraud née von Amerang (age 54) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 153 along with a note that they had gone to Saratov.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Heinrich Meisner came from Amsterdam.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meisner family among the Volga German colonies.
Volga German families settled in Seward, Alaska.
Aktuesay is located on the border of Kazakhstan and the Russian Altai Krai south of Omsk.
Volga German families were settled in Aktuesay during the 1941 Deportation.
Makinka was founded in 1890. Volga Germans were resettled there during the 1941 Deportation.
Shchuchinsk (Schutschinsk or Schtschutschinsk in German) was first settled in 1850 by Cossacks from Siberia. In the early 1900s, it served as a support center for the coal mining region of Karaganda.
Following the 1941 deportation, the city grew with many Volga German families being settled there (along with ethnic Germans from other areas of Russia). Beginning in 1990, most of these family migrated to Germany.
Kirtorf, located in Middle Hessen, was part of the duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt from 1604 to 1806. It is located in Vogelsberg Kreis from which many Volga German families came.
Mattias Lütger, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus under the command of Skipper Johann Graap along with his sister-in-law Susanna [widow of Andreas Wilberger] and her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 3).
Volga German families settled in Pacific County, Washington.
Volga German families settled in Dudovka following the 1941 Deportation.