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From: Werner Reeb <>
Subject: [REEB-ROOTS-L] Volga Germans
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 06:53:36 -0400


Hi!

I am some weeks back with my private e-mails but first I, too, want to like
to welcome the new members. I am one of the European group members and am
living in Germany.

Pablo, I finally got the book I talked about a while ago. It is "Karl
Stumpp, Die Auswanderung aus Deutschland nach Rußland in den Jahren 1763
bis 1862" (emigration to Russia between 1763 and 1862). On one hand it
looks very professional, on the other hand it allready lacks the date of
publishing (early 1970s I guess). Nevertheless the introduction is quite
interesting and many passages are given in English as well. The disapointig
part: There are no Reeb families mentioned, only some Rueb/Rieb families
from southern Russia whose name turned to Reeb after emigrating to the USA.
Mr. Stumpp apparently lived in the southern European part of the Sovieunion
before WW II and says he gathered transcriptions out of most of the area´s
churchbooks etc that vanished after. Unfortunately he did not do this for
the Volga region. Only immigration lists for Balzer, Jagodnaja Poljana
(with a Johann Georg Repp who came there 1767 from Schotten, Hesse) and
Semenowka are published. There is also a list of a 1764 immigration to
Saratow area. If you are (or anybody else is) interested in something named
above or other German families from Russia, let me know and I will try to
mail transscripts/copies.

I do not know wether there area newer publications. Stumpp hoped about some
archieves to be opened for public when he published this book. There is a
union of Russian German in Germany. So their program is closer to politics
than anything else, including genealogy, they might know more about it.

I am sorry that I do not have any concrete details on the subject. I did
not pay much attention to this eastward emigration so far. I only gathered
some things like more info on the above named Rueb families "en passant".

Werner Reeb

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