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From: "Dick Kraus/Pat Fiero" <>
Subject: German Origins Project, 3rd Report, 2005
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:50:34 -0800


Hi fellow GR -- This is the 3rd 2005 German Origins report. We now have mostly confirmed origins information on two Black Sea area colonies and mostly unconfirmed origins information for 27 Volga colonies which now have their First Settlers' Lists (FSL) and Mai & Marquardt info, along with some Stumpp info, entered in the German Origins portion of the AHSGR web site: http://www.ahsgr.org/german_origins.htm. Those colonies included so far are Gueldendorf (Odes) and Hoffnungstal (Bess) in the south, and in the Volga area: Anton, Balzer, Bangert, Bauer, Bettinger, Dietel, Frank, Holstein, Huck, Jagodnaya Polyana, Kamenka, Kautz, Kraft, Krasnoyar, Kratzke, Kukkus, Kutter, Leichtling, Merkel, Preuss, Roethling, Rothammel, Schuck, Sewald, Stahl-am-Karaman, Volmer, and Walter.

As you can see, I deviated a bit from the planned order of entry. This, because the wonderful resource on Walter arrived here and I could not resist putting in play as quickly as possible.

The confirmed (in red) origins data portions of the site are growing by leaps and bounds as more of you share your origins research results with me for use on the site.

Once again, I cannot emphasize enough that the German Origins project is intended to include information regarding the origins of settlers in German Russian villages no matter where they were in Russia. Even though all of the information I have received or found so far has been either for the Volga or the southern Russia areas, I welcome and will include data for any colony in any region. Send it in and it will be included.

There are 29 more Volga FSL in the first two volumes of Professor Pleve's books. The order of the next entries will be: Grimm, Doenhof, Dinkel, Kolb, Katharinenstadt, Goebel, Herzog, and Graf -- that is the result of requests by readers of these Lists. The next 21 will be entred in the following order: Boaro, Koehler, Boregard, Keller, Brabender, Caesarsfeld, Kano, Cheisol, Jost, Degott, Husaren, Dehler, Hoelzel, Dobrinka, Hildmann, Dreispitz, Enders, Ernestinendorf, Fischer, Galka, and Franzosen -- unless one of you asks to have a village moved up in priority. That's all it takes -- one request -- first come, first served. It takes me from one to two weeks to enter a colony depending on its size and on other priorities in my life.

The following is repeated from the first 2005 report:

If you are a Village Coordinator and your village is up on the site now, I would greatly appreciate you checking the relevant entries. You will 1) discover some errors which you can happily tell me about, 2) find out one or two new things about the folk who first came to your village, and 3) discover that you know of some verified origins which you can then tell me about so I can add that valuable information to the site.

If you are not a Village Coordinator, if you will check your family names in the index, you may find out some interesting things you may not have known before, or you may discover that you know of some verified origins which are not on the site which you can tell me about so that I can add that valuable information to the site.

As I enter the data, I do my best to identify the German places that are mentioned in the First Settlers' Lists as the place from which emigrants to Russia departed. This effort may provide new hints for you, or you may find that I have mis-identified a place which will enable you to educate me. I am learning fast, but I have so much more to learn! Teach me.

However, it turns out, I think most folk will have fun checking out this new index. Enjoy!

Cheers, Dick Kraus, AHSGR German Origins project coordinator and Alexandertal VC

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