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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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SaalburgGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Jung109, and perhaps to a Miemer family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Nassau.  I can find no such place on Nassau lands.  The only Saalburg I can find is 19 miles SE of Saalfeld city, then in Reuss-Schleiz County.

SaalfeldGS: short for the Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld Duchy the lands of which lay mostly to the S and SW of Rudolstadt city.   Said (no locality mentioned) by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to an Axt and possibly to a Fleming family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Heisner family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Schiffler family.

SaalfeldenGL, Salzburg: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to an Arnhold family.  This probably is Saalfelden, Austria, some 28 miles SW of the city of  Salzburg, Austria.

SaalmeierFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Kummerhausen(?), Nuernberg.

SaalmuensterGL: see Salmuenster.

SaarGS, a small state in SW Germany which in the 1760’s was under French control.

SaaraGL, [Kur-]Sachsen: is some 4 miles SSW of Altenburg city and said by the Fischer FSL to be homeUC to frau Paschner?.  Altenburg may have owed some allegiance to Kursachsen but everything I can find says it and Gotha Duchy were ruled independently by the same family from 1675-1825, so it seems odd to see Saara said here to be part of [Kur-]sachsen.

SaarbrueckenGS: in the 1760’s it was the seat of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbruecken, who held extensive lands from Bous on the W to Bexbach on the E, and from Berschweiler on the N to Ensheim on the S, along and between the Saar and Blies rivers, so this reference might be to the city or the whole County.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller/Miller family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Mulidar? family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to a Schoenberger family.  The city is some 97 miles SW of Frankfurt-am-Main.

Saarbruecken, Pfalz: is some 12 miles W of Zweibruecken city, and said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Beck family.

SaarburgGL, Kurtrier: is some 10 miles SSW of Trier city.  Said by the Cheisol FSL to be homeUC to Becker, Bersch/Bertsch, Gaenseblum/Gaensenblum, Husch/Kusch, Nicholas/Nikolai, Nussbaum, Ort/Orth, Schmidt, Spiess, Thome, Tierry/Tire, and Werner families.  Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to Dening, and Gaenseblum families including frau Marx.  Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Telf family.

Saarburg [Amt], Elsass-Lothringen: was 14 miles W of Zabern (nka Saverne).

SaargemuendGL, Lothringen: now called Sarreguemines in the Lorraine some 9 miles SSE of Saarbruecken.  Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to Krause, Lich, Lick, Pink, Schlosser, and Schuber families.  Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to the wife (no family name given) of Herr Zimmermann, as well as to Bach, Staub, and Tihl families.

SaarlandGS: the current German state to the SE of Luxembourg.

SaarlouisGL, see Louis.  Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt family.

Saarlouis, Lothringen, Frankreich: is 27 miles WNW of Zweibruecken, and said by the Cheisol FSL to be homeUC to aBach and Krewelldinger/Krehfeldinger families.

Saarunion [Amt]GL, [Oberamt], Zabern, Elsass: is now Sarre-Union some 17 miles NW of Zabern/Saverne city and was a District administrative center.

SabawaGL, Stojanow (Catholic Parish), Galicia: is SE of Josefow, and some 4 miles WNW of Stojanow town.  Also spelled Zabawa.

Sabawe: aka Sabawe(?) and the GCRA found it associated with a Kaercher family in 1803.

SabawoGL: aka Sabawe?

SabelfeldFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Nassau-Usingen (no locality mentioned) with a Geiss wife.  A Luebeck ML says this man married a von Hess woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#190).  Her name is Geiss? in the FSL.

SachsFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Attaching, Wuerzburg.  Later spelled Sack (Mai1798:Mv1788, Se27).  His wife’s maiden name is given as Vierschenk in the Goebel FSL and as Henecker in the 1798 Goebel census (Mai1798:Se27).

SachsFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC [Anhalt-]Koethen [Principality] (no locality mentioned).  For 1786 see Mai1798:Mv1150.

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

SachsFN: also see Sachse.

SachseFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Dresden, Sachsen with a Winter wife fromUC Anhalt-Zerbst.  Later spelled Sachs.

SachseFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Meltendorf(?).

 [Kur-]SachsenGS:  is the German for Electoral Saxony.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Adam, Glueckshorn, Helmeshausen, and Hermann families.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Gemnitz family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to Boehm, Eichler, and Salzmann families.Said by the Grimm FSL to be homeUC (no locality mentioned) to a Hendel family.  Said (no locality mentioned)  by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Fischer family.  Said by the Kuhlberg list (no locality mentioned) to be homeUC to Schneider of Mueller.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to Linke, Lorenz, and Meier{Gottfried} families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to Schrenz? and Wiedemach? families.

Sachsen-Gotha [Duchy]GS: aka Saxe-Gotha Duchy, aka Gotha Duchy.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to a Risch family, and possibly a Wolf family. Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Glaeser family.  The town of Gotha, seat of Saxon-Gotha, is some 10 miles NE of Leipzig.

Sachsen-MeiningenGS: This Duchy ultimately held vast connected territories stretching in an arc centered on Salzungen, to Meiningen, to Hilburghausen, to Sonneberg to Saalfeld to Possneck, with additional "islands" around Milda, Vierzehnheiligen, Camberg, Kranichfeld, Treppendorf and Gross Kochberg.  However in 1766 it may have held less than 1/4 of that territory.   It was said (no locality mentioned) by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Wachtmeister family. 

SachsenhausenGL: an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Eberling family.  There are at least 8 places with this name in Germany.

Sachsenhausen, [Kur-]Trier: an unidentified place said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Menges family.

Sachsen Province: aka Prussian Saxony.  Saxony was occupied by Prussia and its allies in 1815 and made a Prussian Province in 1816.

SackFN: see Strifler of Boaro.

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

SackFN: a widow said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Kur-]Mainz with her two Goebel children living in her household.

SackFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be an orphan girl in the Leribel household.

SackFN: also see Sachs.

SagerFN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Garmer, Kurmainz.

SahlFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Niederlauken, Nassau-Usingen.

SahlFN: said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC Neustadt, [Kur-]Trier.  The maiden name of this widow may have been Klosoniya (Mai1798:Wr46)?

SahlmanFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be stepchildren living in the Pottof? household.  I could not find any of them in the 1798 Volga censuses.

 

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

Saldrick(?)GL, Waldeck: an uidentified place said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Seifert? family.

SalgenGL, Bavaria: is some 25 miles SW of Augsburg, Bavaria, and said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Winkler family.

Salmbach, Neuenbuerg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 2.5 miles SE of Neuenbuerg town.

Salmbach, [Weissenburg Kreis], Elsass: was 6 miles SE of Wissenburg city.

SalmuensterGL, [Fulda Bishopric]:  said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Ruebesam family. Said by the Hildmann FSL to be homeUC to Heinrich, Keib/Keip, Resch, and Schuldenberger/Schaumberger families.  Said by the Buedingen ML to be home to an Rau man , who married an Eckert woman and then went to Huck (Mai&Marquardt#504). Said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to Bergeritz, Huber, Klug, Schmidt, Seipel, and possibly Wahl families; the Buedingen ML also said that the Wahl woman was fromUC the area of Saalmuenster (Mai&Marquardt#568).  Said by the Roethling FSL to be homeUC to an Elhart family.  The modern name of Salmuenster evidently is Bad Sol-Salmuenster.

SalmuensterGL, Fulda [Bishopric]: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Baecker family.  Salmuenster belonged to the Bishop of Fulda 1734-1803.  It is some 23 miles SW of Fulda city, and said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Koehler family. 

Salorkube?FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Merzhausen with Schmidt step-children from Darmstadt in the household.   Spelled Sartorius in 1798 (Mai1798:Nm21, Pl40).

SaltzmannFN: see Salzmann.

Salz, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Hof{Philipp} family.  There were at least 3 Salzs but none that I can find in the lands of Kurpfalz.

SalzbergGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Lange family.  There were at least 4 Salzbergs in the Germanies.

Salzing(?)GL, is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank FSL, was in the state of Sachsen and was homeUC to a Schmick family.

SalzmannFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Sachsen (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Saltzmann.

SalzmannFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  The Buedingen ML says a Saltzmann man (who may have been this one) married in 1766 a Roeder woman (Mai&Marquardt#479).

SalzmannFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Mittelsinn-bei-Aura, Wuerzburg. ). In 1798 the family name was spelled Saltzmann (Mai1798:Ls10, Mt52).

SalzmannFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Nordeck. 

SalzungenGL: an unidentified place said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to an Illingen woman and a Mueller man who married in 1766; the couple later moved to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#708).  Also see Selzich, Sachsen.

SalzwedelGL, Brandenburg: some 96 miles WNW of Berlin, now in Sachsen-Anhalt, and said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Schneider family.

SalzburgGS: a Catholic Principality in Austria in the 1760s, is 256 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main in Austria, and said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Baron family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Preuss FSL to be homeUC to a Sartor family.

Salzschlirff GL:  is now called Bad Salzschlirf and is some 9 miles NW of Fulda city.  According to the Buedingen ML this was the homeUC of a Breler woman who married in 1766 a Diedrichs man; by 1767 the couple was in Koehler [where his name was given as Dietrich]; Stummp called the place Bad Salzschlirf and and described her as a Praller from Bad Salzschlirf  (Mai&Marquardt#588).

SamderFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Heide, Holstein.

SamerFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.  Later spelled Sommer (Mai1798:Pf46).

Samoszcin, Posen Department, Warsaw Duchy: nka Szamocin, Poland, was 10 miles SW of Wirsitz. It was proven by the GCRA to be home (1805) to the Teske{J.Christoph/Johannes} family that settled in Neudorf.  The GCRA also found it associated with Bischke (1804-13) and Breitmaier (1819) families.

Samotschin: this is Samoszcin.

SandauGL, Brandenburg: seems to be in Sachsen-Anhalt some 58 miles WNW of Berlin city center, and said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Kanzler family.

SandbachGL, [Erbach County]: is some10 miles N of Erbach city, and said by the Frank FSL homeUC to a Hoffaerber family.

SandbergGL: is very near Gersfeld, Hessen and was home to the Schoessler/Schissler who went to Walter.

SanderFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Dresden and to have married in Oranienbaum a Hess woman fromUC Isenburg.

SanderFN: said by the Cheisol FSL to be fromUC Bitche, Frankreich. For 1798 see Mai1798:Mt66.

SanderFN: the Dinkel FSL says this stepson was living in a Hartmann household fromUC Bulwitz(?), Schweden.

SanderFN: said by the 1798 Orlovskaya census to be the maiden name of frau Goetz (Mai1798:Or26).

SandhofGL, Marienburg Amt: is now Piaski, Poland, and was 1 mile E of Marienburg city.  Said by the Rosenort FSL to be homeUC to a Klaassen family, and possibly to a Neufelt family.

SandmeierFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:674, 414) to be from Buetten, Saarunion [Amt], [Oberamt], Zabern, Elsass.  They did leave from there going first to Tscherwenka and then to Glueckstal, but the GCRA proved using FHL(442,795) that they earlier came from Seengen, Aargau Kanton, Switzerland to Buetten.   See the GCRA book for more details.

SanerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Harmuthsachsen?.

Sanflet?GL, Uwern?: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Gimbald family.

SangerhausenGL, [Kur-]Sachsen: is 22 miles E of Nordhausen city. Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to a Koenig family.  Said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a Stieglitz family, and, possibly, to a Mueller family.

Sankt GoarGL, [Katzenelnbogen County, Hessen-Kassel]: is some 15 miles SSE of Koblenz city and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Pfeifer family.

Sankt JacobGL: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Baumtrog family.  There are at least 18 such places in or near Germany and mostly Austria.

Sankt-ThomasGL, Falkenstein: an unidentified place said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to Becker and Dorn families.

SanyerFN: see Singer.

Saoruno?GL, Sachsen: : an unidentified place said by the Fischer FSL to be homeUC to a Friebus? family.

SapperFN: see Zaper.

Saratov: the Russian provincial capital covering the lands of the early Volga German colonies, and said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to frau Rosenquist.

Sarmi?GL, Schweden: an unidentified place said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Londerin? family.

Sarran(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Schulz family.  There are 2 places in central France with this name.

Sarreguemines: see Saargemuend.

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

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

SartorFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Salzburg.

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

SartoriusFN: see Salorkube.

Saryhausen? GL, Wuerttemberg: an unidentified place said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Ludwig family.

Sasa?GL, Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt family and possibly to a Bohlenger family.

SasbachGL, Baden-Baden: seems to be some 29 miles SW of Karlsruhe and is said by the Rothammel FSL to be homeUC to a Fur/Fuhr? family.

Sassanfahrt(?)GL, Bamberg: is some 7 miles SE of Bamberg city, and said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Schmilzer family.

SasseFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Guestrow, Mecklenburg.

Sassanfahrt?, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 7 miles SE of Bamberg city, and was said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to two Rauch families.

Sassenreuth(?)GL, Bayreuth: is some 12 miles SSE of Bayreuth city Bavaria, and said by the Dinkel FSL to be homeUC to a Dinkel family.

SatlerFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Sattler (Mai1798:Ms12).

SatlerFN: also see Sattler.

SatteldorfGL, Crailsheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 2 miles NNE of Crailsheim city, and the GCRA proved this home to the Kraus{Andreas} family that settled in Kassel.

Sattler{F.Jacob, Peter}FN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#34, 101) and KS:415 said this family came fromUC Klimbach, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  Apparently the GCRA did not try to verify this origin, but they did, using FHL#772,787 prove that at least one child and a spouse in the family had been born in Rott, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  See the GCRA book for more.

Sattler{Michael}FN: listed by the 1858 Kassel census (#220) without origin.  I do not find him mentioned in the GCRA book.

Sattler{Siegfried}FN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#34, 68) and KS:415 (with the wrong given name) said this family came fromUC Grosssachsenheim, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Apparently the GCRA did not try to verify this origin.  See their book for more.

SattlerFN:  said by the Ober-Monjou 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Krannewitter (Mai1798:Om24).

SattlerFN: also see Satler.

Satzfried?FN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt.

SaubachGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Schulz family.  This probably was some 17 miles NE of Weimar city in Kursachsen, although there was another Saubach in Austria.

SauerFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Lebront(?), Wittenberg.  In 1798 his wife’s maiden name was given as Huebert? (Mai1798:Db56).

SauerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Nassau-Usingen [Principality] (no locality mentioned).

SauerFN: said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Hofheim, Worms.

SauerFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Bamburg.  Later spelled Hauer.

SauerFN: also see Gauri.

SauerwaldFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Koeln.

SauerwaldFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Amorbach/Bauerbach, Kurmainz.

SauerweinFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Ober Wintersheim, Darmstadt.

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

Saulcet dr. Allier, Lothringen: is 107 miles SW of Dijon, France, and said by the Degott FSL to be homeUC to a Mehlberger{Michael} family.

SaumaryeVV: is one version of the Russian name for BangertVV.

SaumorjeVV: is one version of the Russian name for BangertVV.

Sauter/SautterFN: arrived in South Russia in 1819; later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz both in Willmandingen, Reutlingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg and in Kirchardt, Sinsheim Amt, Baden.  The GCRA book has some additional information on this family.

SautterFN: see Sauter.

Savino SaloGL: see Dorschau.

SawatskiFN: see Sawazki.

SawatskyFL: see Sowatsky.

SawazkiFN: said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Simbirsk, Russland.  In 1798 spelled Sawatski (Mai1798:Hn5, Mv1036).

SawizkiFN: said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Druja?, Polen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

SaxonyGS: a German kingdom in eastern Germany.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Zuege/Zuge family.  Saxony: Said (no locality mentioned) by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC to a Getse/Goetz? family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be homeUC of Migne and Vitsel families.

SayterFN: see Seiter.

Sayn-Altenkirchen CountyGS: was a trifurcated country which lay in the northeastern most corner of the current state of Rhineland Palatinate.  See Altenkirchen.

Sayn-Hachenburg CountyGS: was a trifurcated country the largest chunk of which surrounded Hachenburg city and extended to the SW.

SazinsFN: list by the Dehler FSL with no origin.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

 

 

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