Hello, My husband's heritage is German from Russia. The above ancestor left Baden, Sim (?) in Germany in 1767 and settled in Russia at just about the same time as other Bieber's were coming to America. The information was taken from the original settler's list of Rothammel, a Catholic colony in the Volga area of Russia. (The information was probably given in German, & written down in old style Russian. It was translated back to German and then into English so may not be correct spellings.) His wife was Anna Elisabetha b. abt 1736, and children were Heinrich b. abt 1759 and Franz Jacob b. abt 1766. (The following info was taken from the 1798 census of Rothammel.) Katharina may have been his daughter. She moved from Rothammel to the village of Dehler (Beresovka) in 1789. Johannes may have been his son and moved to Brabander (Kazitskaya) in 1793. Heinrich married Maria Magdalena Monschader (Monschauer) and had sons, Martin, Nikolaus, Josef, and a daughter, Maria. Does anyone have info on this family? Barbara Bretz