Garfield County, Montana
Volga German families settled in Garfield County, Montana.
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Llano County, Texas
Volga German families settled in Llano County, Texas.
Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden (Post-1941)
Volga German families have settled in Malmö, Sweden.
Vermilion, Alberta
Volga German families settled in the village of Vermilion, Alberta.
Narym, Parabelsky District, Tomsk Oblast (Siberia)
Narym is the oldest Russian settlement in the Tomsk region of Siberia. It has been the exile destination of Russian political figures since the 1600s.
Volga German families settled in the Siberian town of Narym in the Tomsk Oblast.
Grünwald, Bakcharskiy District, Tomsk Oblast (Siberia)
Volga German families settled in the village of Grünwald in Tomsk Oblast earlier than the 1930s. The Russian name of the village is Bogatyrevka.
Triberg, Kr. Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden-Württemberg
Tribert is located in the Schwarzwald region of Baden-Württemberg.
Kern (Seelmann)*
Bartholomeus Kern, a miller, his wife Rosina, and son Anton arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Bartholomeus Kern, a miller (Müller), and his wife Rosina are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 34. They had arrived in Seelmann on 16 August 1767.
Henkel (Dönhof-2)*
Johannes Henkel, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 67.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Henkel came from the German region of Riedesel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Henkel family among the Volga German colonies.
Wagner (Unknown-5)*
Johann Wagner, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Henrich Wagner, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann Christ. Fried. (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.