Lana, do you speak any Russian or other languages? Would you check out our languages template and add it to your biography? For example you might add
{{ Languages | en | ru-3 }}
to the top of your biography if you speak English natively and advanced Russian, or you could use de-4 to specify near-native German or pl-1 for basic Polish, and so forth up to ten languages. It really helps to know who speaks all the different languages used on WikiTree!
Thank you! The link to the Homestead records on the Volga German led me to find my Great Great Grandfather's Land Patent to his homestead in Oklahoma!!
Katharine Strackbein, the daughter of Johann Georg Strackbein and Elizabeth Maria Magdalena Homrighausen in my Great Grand mother. She married John Albert Riedesel. You can contact me at [email address removed]
YES! That's awesome about the new database! It only helps with those who have emigrated to the US, but it is still a huge step and will make finding them much easier.
Awesome photo you posted of the long walk our Volga German colonist settlers made across northern Russia! https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Volga_German_Project-4
{{ Languages | en | ru-3 }}
to the top of your biography if you speak English natively and advanced Russian, or you could use de-4 to specify near-native German or pl-1 for basic Polish, and so forth up to ten languages. It really helps to know who speaks all the different languages used on WikiTree!
Karen
It sure appears that we are related.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Swabians
Here's a little more specific...
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/ESE/dschwaben.html