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Location: Volga > Genealogical Records > Original Settler Lists
Original Settler Lists or Original Immigrant Lists
or First Colonist Lists or 1767 Census List
The lists of the first settlers was compiled after the establishment
of the majority of the colonies. At the order of the Chancery of
Oversight of Foreigners in St. Petersburg, the Saratov konora of
Oversight of Foreigners, through November and December of 1767 conducted
a census, or as it was then called a "revision" of all the settlements
of the Volga.
There are 5 sources for these Original Immigrant Lists all
available from AHSGR:
Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 (Immigration to the Volga
Region, 1764-1767) Vol. 1 by Dr. Igor Pleve and edited by Dr. Alfred Eisfeld.
Volume 1. It includes 22 original immigrant lists for the villages:
Anton, Balzer, Bangert, Bauer, Bettinger, Boaro, Boregard, Brabander,
Cäsarsfeld / Caesarsfeld, Chaijsol, Degott, Dehler, Dietel, Dinkel,
Dobrinka, Dönhof / Doenhof,
Dreispitz, Enders, Ernestinendorf, Fischer, Frank, and Franzosen.
Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 (Immigration to the Volga
Region, 1764-1767) Vol. 2 by Dr. Igor Pleve and edited by Dr. Alfred Eisfeld.
It includes 24 original immigrant lists for the villages:
Galka, Göbel /Goebel, Graf, Grimm, Herzog, Hildmann, Hölzel / Hoelzel,
Holstein, Huck, Husaren, Jagodnaja Poljana / Yagodnaya Polyana, Jost /Yost,
Kamenka, Kano / Kaneau, Katharinenstadt, Kautz, Keller, Kind, Köhler / Koehler,
Kolb, Kraft, Krasnyj Jar / Krasnoyar, Kratzke and Kukkus, and Kutter.
The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the 18th Century By
Igor R. Pleve (Translated by Richard Rye). This book includes lists of
first settlers of ten German colonies on the Volga:
Kamenka, Kautz, Kratzke, Leichtling, Merkel, Preuss, Rothhammel, Schuck,
Seewald, and Vollmer.
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The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 by Karl
Stumpp. Only 4 Volga villages have listings in this book for the
original immigrants, Balzer, Dietel, Semenovka, and Yagodnaya Polyana.
It is possible, but unlikely that the source of these 4 lists may be different than the
1767 original census list.
AHSGR also has copies of original documents for these immigrant lists for the
following colonies: Bauer, Degott, Dietel, Herzog, Hölzel / Hoelzel, Kautz,
Kraft, Kratzke, Kukkus, Merkel, Preuss, Seewald, Vollmer, and Walter. They were
transcribed/translated by Rick Rye, but have never been specifically published by
AHSGR.
The original settler lists are available for Graf, Louis, Mariental,
Obermunjou, Pfeifer, Rohleder, Schoenchen and Wittmann at
Research Material.
The original settler list for Katharienstadt is now published online.
So the original settler lists for 55 of the 104 original colonies have been published
or are available from AHSGR. Igor Pleve has indicated that he will eventually
publish these lists for all villages established by 1767. He will eventually publish
4 volumes of Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 (Immigration to the Volga
Region, 1764-1767).
Igor Pleve indicates that the following villages were established in 1768, not 1767 as
previously indicated by Karl Stumpp. Regardless of their year of establishment,
Pleve does not have the Original Immigrant Lists for these villages so they will
not be published in his books. These villages were:
Biberstein (Glarus), Basel, Bern, Gattung (Zug), Hockenberg, Hummel (Brockhausen),
Kind, Meinhard (Unterwalden), Nab / Naeb, Remmler (Luzern), Schaffhausen and
Wittmann (Solothrun). Perhaps the year of establishment of these 12 villages
was really 1767 but the census list was not compiled until 1768 or was not
compiled at all.
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