American Historical Society of Germans From Russia

German Origins Project

Legend:   BV=a German village near the Black Sea.   FN= German family name.    FSL= First Settlers’ List.    GL= a locality in the Germanies.    GS= one of the German states.   ML= Marriage List.   RN= the name of a researcher who has verified one or more German origins.   UC= unconfirmed.    VV= a German Volga village.
Names in bold are an entry or a cross-reference to an entry.  Red text calls attention to information for which verification is completed or well underway.

 

 
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Reb/Reeb FN: see Repp.

Rebart FN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Langenprozelten, Kurmainz.

RebensdorfFN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Plopdorf(?) (no locality mentioned).

ReberFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Freiburg.

RebgeshainGL, Riedesel Barony: is some 8 miles SW of Lauterbach city, some 16 miles SW of Schlitz city,  and some 20 miles W of Fulda, Hessen, and said by Stumpp to be homeUC to a Herl woman who married a Bartholomaeus man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Walter (Mai&Marquardt#694).  Long after the 1760s it was associated with Ulrichstein.  Also see Reppeshain and Repgeshayn.

RebgeshainGL: also see Reinheim.

Rabin?GL, Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.

Rech/WergensrechFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Erbach (no locality mentioned) and he married in Oranienbaum the widow Miller.

Rechaer?FN: no place of origin is given for this orphan in the Pfeiffer FSL but she is living in the household of a Naumann family fromUC Hannover. 

RechinFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Sowenow(?)  (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

RechtenbachGL, Bergzabern [Amt], Pfalz: is 2.5 miles SW of Bad Bergzabern town, and said by both the 1816 Kassel census (#19) and KS:318 to be homeUC to the Jakob family, but the GCRA could not find them in records there.

RechtenburgGL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Fried family and possibly  to their Bittner step-daughter.  There were Richtenburgs and Rechtenbaums in the Germanies.

Rechweiler-bei-ZweibrueckenGL: an unidentified place, but there is a Reischweiler 5.5 miles E of Zweibruecken city.  The Helfenstein family may have been fromUC here.

ReckFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

Reck FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Sh19.

RecklinghausenGL, Koeln: is some 47 miles NNE of Koeln city, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Tegemann family.

RedelFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Befort, Luxembourg.  Spelled Riedel in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn14).

RedelFN: said by the Hoelzel FSL to be fromUC [Kur-]Trier (no locality mentioned).    Spelled both Redel (Mai1798:Sm42, Hz47) and Riedel (Hz21) in 1798.

RedelFN: said by the Messer 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Ressler (Mai1798:Ms61).

RedenbachFN:  said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:660, 400) to have been from Pfrondorf, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  This name was also spelled Reidenbach and Roethenbach.

Redenhof(?)GL, Wuerttemberg(?):an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Knedler? family.

RederankGL, Mecklenburg: is some 11 miles WSW of Rostock city, said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to an Esler family.

RedlerFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Maulbronn, Kurpfalz.  Volz seems to spell this family as Roedling and says it has Hessen origins.

Redlov?FN: said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg, Prussia.

RedmannFN: said by the 1816 Neudorf census (#95) without oridin and said by KS:400 to have come fromUC Polen. Using FHL#245,507 the GCRA proved their origin Wirsitz, Posen Province, Warsaw Duchy.  See the GCRA book for more.   Also spelled Rettmann.

RedmarGL, Brunswick Duchy: an unidentified place said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC to a Brecht man who was sent here as an 1812 prisoner of war (p.137).

Reeves-MarquardtRN, Dona: see Mai & Marquart.  Dona has verified the origin of her Fritzler ancestors.

Reez(?)/RetzGL: an unidentified place said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Plattner/Blattner? family.

ReflinkFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Riesa. In 1798 the family name was spelled Riffling (Mai1798:Fs10).

RegardFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Kervenheim, Wuerzburg.  Later spelled Riegert (Mai1798:Gb28).

Regard/Gerhard?FN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC BernkastelGL, Trier.

RegenbachFN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC Essin(?).  Later spelled Reigenborn.

RegensburgGS: the city is some 172 miles ESE of Frankfurt-am-Main, but in the 1760s there were two countries called Regensburg: one was Regensburg Imperial City (1180-1803) and the other was Regensburg Imperial Abbey.  So far I have not been able to tell to which a given FSL notation refers. Said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Lobinger? family, and possiblyto a Scheitwahl family.  Said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to Eckel, Esslauer, Windholz families.Said by the Herzog FSL to be homeUC to Hofstaetter, Kantner, Riedel, Scheck, Schmidtberger, and Wittmann families. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Gerber/Gerbert family.  Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Retzer family.  Said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Pluemerdorf family.  Said by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Mertz family.   Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to Hecht and Kohlbeck families as well as to Frau Enselinger (no locality and no maiden name given).

RegenspurgGL: aka Regensburg.

RegerFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Mannheim (no locality mentioned). 

RegerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Lochowittig?.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Regezer?FN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Zilers/Sielers(?), Lothringen.

Rehaeser FN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Rimelshein?, Kurmainz. I could not find this family name in the 1798 censuses.

RehbergerFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:676, 400) with no origin.  Using FHL(1,346,470), the GCRA proved origin in Neckarsteinach, Heidelberg [Amt], Baden. See the GCRA book for more details.

RehlFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Nassau.  Spelled Riel in 1798 (Mai1798:Bo8).

RehmFN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

RehminderFN:  said by the Ober-Monjou 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Nauheim (Mai1798:Om63).

RehnFN: see Rein.

RehsenGL, Dessau: is some 11 miles E of Dessau city and a Schmidt man was said by the Boaro FSL to have left hereUC for Russia having been born inUC Gorau.

ReibachGL: an unidentified place said to be homeUC to a Faust man and a Reichert woman who married in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Dobrinka (Mai&Marquardt#557).  The Dobrinka FSL says the place was Roth, Isenburg.

ReibachGL, Darmstadt: must be Raibach.  Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Schipp woman who married an Armbruester man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#569).

ReiberFN said by the Kautz FSL to be fromUC Bornheim, Kurpfalz.

ReiberFN: see also Raibert and Reuber.

ReibertFN: a Raab couple who went to Balzer married in 1766 and the Buedingen ML says this bride was from Mockstadt.

ReibertenrodGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: about 1 miles NW of Alsfeld town, and said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to an Altenhof family. Kuhlberg said this was in the state of Hessen.

ReibichFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main.  In 1798 it may have been spelled Rossbach?? (Mai1798:Wr76).

ReichFN:  a Luebeck ML said this woman fromUC Tannerheim married in 1766 a Weistheim man; by 1768 this couple was in Galka (Mai&Marquardt#138).

ReichFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  According to the Buedingen ML this man fromUC NiederOhm married in 1766 a Trimper woman; Stumpp says he was fromUC NiederOhmen near Alsfeld and that her family name was Trimber (Mai&Marquardt#531).

ReichFN: left Nagold, Wuerttemberg for Grossliebenthal, Russia in the 1800s.

ReichFN: said by Stumpp version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda (now in the state of Hessen); said by the Pleve version to be from Darmstadt.  The Kromm version says he was the foster son of Becher and was from Glasshuetten, Nidda [Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt] (pp.30, 34).  Kathryn Drozdik thinks he may be brother to the Grimm Reich.

Reich FN: listed by the 1816 Kassel census (#94) without origin and said by KS:400 to be fromUC Polen.  The GCRA thinks they probably came from Posen Province alathough they search the records of some specific places and did not find this family; see their book for more.

ReichFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Nuernberg.

ReichFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReichFN: this family name was found recorded in Herborn marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

ReichardtFN: this family name was found recorded in Herborn marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

ReichartFN: according to a Luebeck ML the widow of a Reichart married a Humbert man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#229).

ReichartFN: this family name was found recorded in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

Reichart/ReichertFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Wern(?), Isenburg.

Reichau [parish?], Galicia: now 8 miles SE of Cieszanow, Poland, and 40 miles NW of L’viv, Ukraine, and was then the records center covering Deutschbach? and  Smolin.  The GCRA says these records are in FHL#905,257.  They found it associated with Haller (1801), Merker and Mueller (1805) families.

ReicheimGL: the Buedingen ML says this was homeUC to the Meyer woman who married a Buchsbaum in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Holstein (Mai&Marquardt#585); but other evidence makes it clear this was Reichelsheim, Erbach.

ReichelFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Meisenheim, Kurpfalz.  Actually this man (parents are given) was from Mettenheim, Wartenberg (Mai&Marquardt#1245).

ReichelFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Meisenheim, Wittenberg.  Actually this man from Mettenheim, Wartenberg married a woman from Dorn-Duerkheim (Mai&Marquardt#1246).

ReichelFN: also see Reigel.

ReichelseeGL: said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Blumenschein woman who in 1766 married a Zirckoebel man fromUC Breuschbach; after which the couple went to Jagodnaja Polyana (Mai&Marquardt#704).  This surely is Reichelsheim, Erbach.

ReichelsheimGL: is some 5 miles ENE of Friedberg, Hessen, and said by Stumpp to be homeUC to the Blumenschein woman who in 1766 in Buedingen married a Zirckoebel man fromUC Breuschbach; after which the couple went to Jagodnaja Polyana (Mai&Marquardt#704).  Also see Reichelsee.  Stumpp surely is in error; the Blumenschein woman almost certainly was fromUC Reichelsheim, Erbach, not Hessen.

ReichelsheimGL, Erbach: is some 7 miles NW of Erbach city, 13 miles SE of Darmstadt city, and said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to Blumenstein and Derr families.  Sherri Stahl has found the birth records here of the Goettmann men, father and son, who were first settlers in Frank.  Said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Buchsbaum wife.  Said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Polyana FSL to be homeUC to Blumenstein and Zuergiebel families.  Sometimes referred to as Reichelsee or Heichelheim.

ReichenbachFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767, and in Winterhausen marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel trip.

ReichenbachGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Elchner family.  There were at least 49 Reichenbachs in the Germanies!

Reichenbach, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 42 miles NE of Bamberg city, and said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to  Aman and Lang families.

ReichenbachGL, Schlesien: now Dzierzoniow, Poland, some 30 miles SW of Wroclaw, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Hoffmann family.

Reichenbach, Wuerttemberg: is 7 miles SE of Karlsruhe, and was said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#19) and KS:361 to be homeUC  to the Lutz{Friedrich/Georg F.}  family that settled in Neudorf.

Reischenschlerch?GL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Vogel family and possibly to their Lenkof/Leikam step-sons.

ReichertFN: found by the GCRA to be in Bergdorf and proven, using FHL 1,475,216-7, by them to have come from Tailfingen, Herrenberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for details.

ReichertFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Bingen, Kurmainz.  In 1798 see Mai1798: Bx09.

ReichertFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Seiben.  Spelled Reichert in 1798 (Mai1798: Mv323, Ka102?, Mv322?, Kn02?).

ReichertFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman from Reibach married a Faust man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Dobrinka (Mai&Marquardt#557).

ReichertFN: arrived in South Russia in 1818; later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Scheppach, Oehringen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

ReichertFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Raibach, Darmstadt.

ReichertFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Buedingen, Isenburg.

ReichertFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.

ReichertFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Kottenheim?, Kurtrier. 

ReichertFN: a Luebeck ML says this woman married a Hohnstein man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Norka (Mai&Marquardt#1199).

ReichertFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReichertFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Boedefeld.

ReichertFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

ReichertFN: also see Reichart and Rueckert.

ReicherterFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672, 401) to be from Reutlingen, Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL(1,069,075), the GCRA verified this origin. See the GCRA book for more details.

Reichle{Carl}FN:  KS:401 said he came fromUC Kircheim, Nuertingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg toUC Neudorf.  The GCRA found no record of such a person in Neudorf.  See their book for more.

Reichle{Jakob}FN: mistakenly said by the 1816 Neudorf census (#53) to have come fromUC Sternefels, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  But KS:401 said he came from Gitenberg, Nuertingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL#1,055,850, the GCRA concluded that the latter origin, but Gutenberg instead of Gitenburg, was likely but not provable due to so many similar names in the records there.  See their book for more.

Reichle{Jakob, Johannes}FN: said by KS:401 to have come fromUC Sternenfels, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg toUC Neudorf.  The GCRA found no record of these men in Neudorf.  See their book for more.

Reichmannshausen, Schweinfurt [Amt], Bavaria: is 8 miles NE of Schweinfurt city, and this may have been homeUC to the Hemmerich family that went to Glueckstal viaUC Torschau, Hungary; see the GCRA book for detail.

ReicholdtFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Ballenheim(?), Franken.

ReidFN:  see Reut.

ReidenbachFN:  see Redenbach.

ReidenheimGL, Worms: an unidentified place said by the Goebel FSL to be homeUC to Muetzig and perhaps Reisenbach families.  The only such place I can find is some 16 miles S of Wuerzburg, Bavaria.

ReiderFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReiderFN: said by the 1798 Norka census to be the maiden name of Isenburger Richter’s wife (Mai1798:Nr106).

Reier?FN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

ReifegersteFN: see Reisegerste.

Reifenberg, Bassenheim [Barony]: nka Oberreifenberg and Niederreifenberg 12 miles NW of Frankfurt-am-Main city centre, and said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to Brendel, Fest, and Fuchs families. Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to the Brendel, Fischer{Barbara}, and Waldschmidt families. Said by the Buedingen ML  to be homeUC to the Strack man who in 1766 married a Herrman woman; by 1767 this couple was in Pfeiffer (Mai&Marquardt:634); however, the Pfeiffer FSL says he was fromUC Hannover. Also spelled Reiffenburg (Mai&Marquardt:634).

Reifenberg, Bassenheim, Kurmainz: said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Sturmann family.  This is the same place as the previous entry.  Reifenberg was in the Bassenheim Barony, not in Kurmainz, although it was very near the Kurmainz border. 

ReifenschneiderFN: see Reifschneider.

ReiffenburgGL, BessenheimGL: see Reifenberg.

ReiffscheiderFN: according to a Luebeck ML a Reiffscheider woman from Rosbach married a Thiel man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#231).

ReiffschneiderFN: also see Reifschneider.

ReifschneiderFN: a note to Mai&Marquardt#1192 says that the Krasnoyar FSL says that “Meerholz near Isenburg” was homeUC to a Reifschneider family.  Meerholz was the seat of Isenburg-Meerholz County.  The Pleve version of the Krasnoyar FSL (#114) says that Isenburg was their homeUC.  A Luebeck ML says this Reifenschneider man married a Zimmer woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#1192). KS:150 says another Reifschneider came fromUC Leisenwald.  Leisenwald was in Isenburg-Meerholz County.

ReifschneiderFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.  The Buedingen ML says this Reiffschneider man married in 1766 a Loos woman, both fromUC Leisewald (Mai&Marquardt#613).

ReifschneiderFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  I cannot find them in the index to the 1798 censuses.

ReifschneiderFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReigelFN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Waltenberg County (no locality indicated).  The local, contemporary pastor indicated that this Reichel man had gone from Mettenheim, Wartenberg to Dietel (Mai&Marquardt#1244).  Dona Reeves-Marquardt found the birth records in Mettenheim, Wartenberg church books.

Reigenbol?GL, Sachsen: an unidentified place said by the Fischer FSL to be homeUC to frau Knoll.

ReigenbornFN: also see Regenbach.

Reigensen(?)GL, Erbach: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Schimpf family.

ReigertFN: said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Mosbach.

ReiherFN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Breslau, Schlesien. I cannot find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

ReiherFN: frau Reiher was said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Stockholm, Schweden.

ReiherFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Neuweiler, Lothringen and his Kern wife fromUC Schotten, Darmstadt.

ReilFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Gelnhausen (no locality mentioned).

ReilFN: also see Ruehl.

ReilingFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Schlitz.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

ReilingenGL, Mannheim [Amt], Baden: is some 14 miles SSE of Mannheim city, and incorrectly said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:660, 220) to have been homeUC to a Spielmann family and possibly a Bedorf family.  Incorrectly said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Schnabel family. Said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#16, Spielman) and KS:449 (Spielmann) ) to be homeUC  to the Spielman/Spielmann family that settled in Bergdorf and Neudorf.  See the GCRA book for more.

Reimer?FN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg.

Reimer FN {Jacob}: said by the Orloff FSL to be fromUC Berwald.

ReimerFN {Gerhard}:  said by the Orloff FSL to be fromUC Ohrlofff, Tiegenhoff Amt.

ReimerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned).  Her maiden name was given as Patzler in 1798 (Mai1798:Or1).  A Luebeck ML syas this man married in 1766 a Batzel woman (Mai&Marquardt#56). The family name was also spelled Riemer in 1798 (Mai1798:Or31,49).

ReimerFN: said by the Tiege FSL to be fromUC Moesland, Moewa Amt or Dirschan Amt.

ReimerFN: also see Rimer.

ReimkelnGL, Hesse-Darmstadt County: an unidentified place, said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Knorr family.

ReimsGL: a French city some 96 miles WSW of Luxembourg city.

ReinFN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Waltenberg County (no locality indicated).  Dona Reeves-Marquardt found the birth records in Mettenheim, Wartenberg church books, which say that Rein’s wife’s maiden name was Weinbach.  See also Reis.

ReinFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReinFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Rein woman (origin not given) married in 1766 a Braun man; later this couple went to Kamenka (Mai&Marquardt#440).

ReinFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Gerbershein(?), Hanau.  The Buedingen ML says this Rehn man married in 1766 a Russ woman (Mai&Marquardt#389).

ReinFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Undenheim.  A Rosslau ML says this man married in 1766 a Viel woman (Mai&Marquardt#981).

ReinFN: said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be fromUC Mainz.

ReinFN: also see Reis.

ReinbergGL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Wittmann family.  Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Betz family.  Said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Werner family.  There are many Reinbergs, Reinsbergs, and Reimbergs in Germany and Austria.

ReinbreitbachGL, Kelheim: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to an Asemakher? family.  There is a Reinbreitbach, Rhineland-Wuerttemberg, some 27 miles SE of Cologne.

ReineckeFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.  Later spelled Reinicke.

ReineckeFN: also see Roenke.

ReinefeldFN: see Rahnefeld.

ReinerFN: see Rainer.

ReinfeldFN: see Rahnefeld.

ReinhardFN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Lebbin, Brandenburg.

ReinhardFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be from Darmstadt.  Later spelled Reinhardt.  Gerhard Lang has traced them from Grosszimmern (8 miles E of Darmstadt city), Hessen, through Schleswig (then a part of Denmark) prior to Russia.  In 2006 in Salt Lake City Dona Reeves-Marquardt found baptismal records for both men, and marriage records in which one of the men married a Heim woman and the other married a Hornung woman with the comment that they were in a hurry because they were leaving right away for Denmark! (Gross Zimmern, Kreis Dieburg, Hessen, Germany).

ReinhardFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Bueblingshausen, Braunfels.

ReinhardFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Blieskastel.  The name was later spelled Reinhardt (Mai1798:Mt25,Mv1654).

ReinhardFN: this family name was found recorded in Schlitz marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

ReinhardtFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Aldingen, Spaichingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

ReinhardtFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Wiege(?).

ReinhardtFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Ilm, Schwarzburg.

ReinhardtFN: also see Reinhard.

ReinheimGL, Darmstadt: said by the Mueller FSL to be homeUC to Heiss and Buxmann families.  There is a Reinheim some 8 miles SE of Darmstadt city.  The Buedingen ML says this is Reppeshain and Stumpp says it is Rebgeshain (Mai&Marquardt:651).

Reinheimer: this woman was said by the Buedingen ML to have married a Carbon man in 1766 and to be fromUC Hhaag.

ReinickeFN: see Reinecke.

ReinighofGL, near Rumbach, Pfalz: is some 2 miles NW of Rumbach town, and and proven by the GCRA to have been one of the homes of the Bender family that went to the Glueckstal and Kassel colonies.

ReinigkeFN: see Roenke.

ReinschmidFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:669, 672, 402) to be fromUC Pfaeffingen, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  However, the GCRA verified this family was not in Pfaeffingen, and using FHL(1,528,432),  proved origin in Bad Liebenzell, Bad Liebenzell [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA book for more details.

ReinwaldVV (aka Staritsa, Stariza) is a Lutheran German village on the eastern side of the Volga River.  Its FSL, so far as I know, has not been published.  Fortunately, Carolyn Gorr, the AHSGR Schwed village coordinator has collected and shared FSL information which Prof. Pleve has appended to family charts he has prepared for Schwed descendants.  And Beth Mueller has that chart and shared the information. According to those sources, Reinwald first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens:

from Braman(?), Wittenburg: (Holzwart);

from Moelz, Saxony: (Gorr);

from Netern?, Stolberg: (Mueller).

ReipelFN: said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

Reis?FN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Wittenberg, Kurpfalz.  A contemporary pastor says Reis and his Knobloch wife were in Mettenheim, Wartenberg, where they had a daughter confirmed in 1763 (Mai&Marquardt#1248).

ReisFN:  listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659, 403) without origin.

ReisFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Meterheim(?), Waltenberg.  A contemporary pastor of the Lutheran Church in Mettenheim, Wartenberg, said that this Rhein family had two children born and one confirmed in his parish prior to the time they went to Russia. (Mai&Marquardt#1249).  Dona Reeves-Marquardt has seen the church records.  She says the usual spelling of the name in Rein.

Reis{Johann,Conrad}FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be orphans in the Reis{Johannes} household.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Nb14.

Reis{Johannes}FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Queckborn, with Reis{Johann,Conrad} orphans in the household and the maiden name of frau Reis was given as Reis.  For 1784 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv568 and Er8.

Reis{Maria}FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be the maiden name of frau Reis{Johannes}.

ReisFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Bernburg with a Bock step-daughter in the household.

ReisFN:  the Phillipsfeld 1798 census gives this as the maiden name of frau Pfeifer.  Also spelled Reiss and Reisz.

ReisFN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Bronzell/Bronel, Fulda, Hessen.

ReisFN, also see Reiss.

ReisachFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Kaufbeuren. 

ReisbichFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Kaigareltz, Isenburg County.  The Walter Research Group has identified this as a Reiswig family.

Reisch/ReuschFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Ressel.

ReischFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Koethen (no locality mentioned); a Deringer orphan boy was living with them. .  Frau Reisch’s maiden name was given as Klein in 1798 (Mai1798:Or66).

Reisch?FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Freienried.

ReischburgGL, Austria: Frank Jacobs says Prof. Pleve says a [unnamed] FSL says this unidentified place was homeUC to a Witman/Wittman family.

ReischenbergFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Bonn with a Benedikt step-daughter in the household.  I could find neither this Reischenberg nor this Benedikt in the 1798 Volga censuses.

ReischerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Altkirchen.

ReischerFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled both Reischer (Mai1798:Nr116) and Reuscher (Nr160).  Sue Foster found that this couple had left Jossa for Russia.  The archival reference is in Auerbach, Reuscher entry.

ReischweilerGL: see Rechweiler-bei-Zweibruecken.

ReisegersteFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Golniss, Dessau.  According to another source this Reifegerste man fromUC Retzau, Anhalt-Dessau had married a Hartmann woman (Mai&Marquardt#1137).  Spelled Reifegerste in 1798 (Mai1798: Mv321, Bt09, Mv326, Bt44).

ReisenbachFN: according to the Goebel FSL this was the maiden name of Muetzig (fromUC Reidenheim, Worms)’s wife.

Reiser?FN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Kobeln(?), Wittenberg.

ReiserFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:669, 403) to be from Entringen, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  The GRCA using FHL(1,475,173) has proven that no Reiser family (there were Kaiser families there) family came from Entringen. See the GCRA book for more details.

Reiser{J.Gottfried}: using FHL#1,055,798, the GCRA proved his origin in Feuerbach, Stuttgardt [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  They found that several members of this family had lived in various places in Poland/South Prussia before coming to Hoffnungstahl, Kassel, and Neudorf, and later also going to places in Bessarabia and Volyhynia.  See the GCRA book for much detail.

Reiser{Philipp}: The GCRA found that this man came to Kassel from Grigoriopol, Odessa (which like Kassel was in the Glueckstal Gebeit), but, although it may have found where a woman who may have been his mother was born, it could not prove the origin of his parents.  See their book for more.  At one point the GCRA found him listed as Roemer{Philipp}.

ReiserFN: also see Reiss.

Reiseweken(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Richter family.

ReisingFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Hirschthal(?), Mainz.

ReiskirchGL: see Renskirch.

Reiskirchen?GL: probably is 6.5 miles ENE of Giessen city, and said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a: Koehler family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Darmstadt.

ReisnerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Homburg.

ReissFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Seligenstadt, Kurmainz.  Later spelled Reis and his wife was a Wanzel (Mai1798:Gb16).

Reiss{Adam}FN: said by the Hildmann FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg, [Kurmainz].  Spelled Resch in 1798 (Mai1798:Kl34).

Reiss{Wilhelm}  Spelled Reis (Mai1798:Hd29, 34). A Luebeck ML said this Reiser married in 1766 a Hahn woman (Mai&Marquardt#2).

Reiss/ReisFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Buedingen.

ReissFN:  said by the Koehler FSL and to be the maiden name of frau Brescher.  According to the Buedingen ML she was woman fromUC Ronsfeldt and his name was spelled Proescher (Mai&Marquardt#580).

ReissFN: also see Reis.

ReiswichelFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Reuspich in 1775.  Later spelled Reswig (Mai1798:Nr206).

ReiswigFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

ReiswigFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Kaiserslautern, Kurpfalz.

ReiswigFN: a Luebeck ML says this woman married a Hoesler man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Norka (Mai&Marquardt#1195).

ReiswigFN: see Reisbich.

ReiszFN: see Reis.

ReitGL, [Kur-]Bayern: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Spitzwieser family.  There are at least 6 Reits and many Reiths in Bavaria.

ReitGL, Braunfels: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Mihl family.

Reitenken(?)GL, Worms: an unidentified place said by the Goebel FSL to be homeUC to a Hecht family.

ReiterFN: also see Reuter and Reutter.

ReiterFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Hirschfeld[Gersfeld], Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.  Doris Evans says this origin is confirmed in research done by Anneliese Micheiwski for the Frank Research Fund: the colonist was born 1736 in Gersfeld, son of a Reiter man from Hildburghausen and a woman of Gersfeld.  That woman’s maternal line has been traced back several generations to 1622.

ReiterFN: see also Reider.

ReitzFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Hasselborn, Nassau-Usingen.  Paul Koehler reports that this family were shepherds who traveled from one village to another about every two years – Hasselborn was where the emigrant was born.

ReitzFN:  a Friedberg ML says this woman fromUC Hasselborn married in 1766 a Schneider man; they then settled in Boregard (Mai&Marquardt#330).

ReitzFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Alsbach, Kurpfalz.

ReitzFN: this family name was found recorded in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

Rekgoberteng?GL, Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Kilian family, and possibly to an Pichel family.

Rekowski/RekowskyFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Kopenhagen, Daenemark; another said by the same FSL to be fromUC Poznan/Posen, Polen.

RekowskyFN, see Rekowski.

Relinbach?GL, Lothringen: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Masson family.

RelkeFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Liewart(?), Sachsen.

Remagen(?)GL, Friedberg[sic]: is some 12 miles SE of Bonn, and said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Karg family.  From 1248-1794 Remagen was part of the Juelich duchy, and not part of any Friedberg.

RemboldFN: said by KS:403 to be from Neipperg, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg and spent some time in Glueckstal.  But the