This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WEGNER, MAEIRT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AdC.2ACE/408.1 Message Board Post: What can you tell me about your WEGNER and MAIER families? I am looking for more information about the WEGNER family from Poland/Russia. This passenger list excerpt includes the family members that my Great-Grandfather Ferdinand Wegner immigrated to the USA with. - Cheryl Herrig Rhein passenger list, Bremen to Baltimore - 29 Mar 1890: Wegner, Friedrich - age 38, male, farmer Wegner, Louise - age 36, female, wife Unknown/unreadable name - age 14, female Wegner, Louise - age 12, female Wegner, Ernestine - age 7, female Wegner, Ottilie - age 6, female Wegner, Emilie - age 4, female Wegner, Stefan - age 2, male Wegner, Ferdinand - age 9 mos., male Wegner, Wilhelm - age 32, male, farmer (Wilhelm died 11MAR1901 in Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas.) Wegner, Susanna - age 27, female, wife Wegner, Reinhard - age 5, male Wegner, Olga - age 3, female Wegner, Richard - age 11 mos., male Wegner, Ferdinand - age 18, male, laborer (Ferdinand Wegner married Maria Stahlheber in Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas, on 01OCT1891; then moved to Day County, South Dakota.) Wegner, Regina - age 19, female, servant (Regina Wegner was probably Ferdinand's sister, according to my aunt. She later married Gus Maiert in McPherson County, Kansas. Later moved to Blaine County, Montana.) Meyer, Gustav - age 18, male, laborer (Maeirt) __________________________________________________ I recently searched the Odessa website at http://www.odessa3.org/re-cgi-bin/esearch (the St. Petersburg records) and I found the following record that connects this family to Volhynia, Russia: File: 3,342,274 Volhynian Births, 1880-85 (M. Momose) Last, First Name: Wegner, Reinhold D/M Year: 14 Sep 1884 Father: Wilhelm Mother: Backer, Susanna Film/Item Pg R Nr: 1897691/6 61 669 Place: Blumental (Dermanka)