Pamela: In beginning your research, the first place to go is to AHSGR's German Origins Project:  http://ahsgr.org/FindAncestors/german_origins.htm   which will help identify which village(s) people with these surnames first lived. The next thing you should do is contact the village coordinator (VC) for the villages where these people lived, to see if they can be of help.  The list of VC's is here:  http://ahsgr.org/Villages/village_coordinators.htm When there are multiple villages, one of the best sources for determining where the people came from is the passenger lists when these people immigrated to this country.  Another source is death certificates for the people who immigrated to this country. A complication in determining which village a person was born at is the creation of daughter colonies in the Volga region, between about 1847 and the early 1860's.  There are now translated census records for many daughter colonies indicating who the original settlers were in these daughter colonies.  An additional complication is that people born after about 1860 continued to say that they were from an original colony, when in fact they were born at and lived in a daughter colony.  Gary Martens Dobrinka, Galka, Neu-Weimar & Schilling villages VC ----- Original Message ---- From: Pamela Duggan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 9:25:11 AM Subject: [GV] Vollmer, Russia Hi there, just wondering if you would have any information regarding the  Stang, Weinkauf or Gartner families from this region in Russia.  I have researched on Angela Gartner's website already, I was just wondering if anyone had any further information. Thanks Pamela Duggan (nee Stang) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message