AHSGR American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Germanic 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. A word in bold indicates there is another entry regarding that word or phrase. Click on the bold word or phrase to go to that other entry. Red text calls attention to information for which verification is completed or well underway. Push the back button on your browser to return to the Germanic Origins Project home page. Fo-Fzz last updated 06.05. 2016 FochlingerFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#42) and KS:265 without origin. Using FHL#1,348,722, the GCRA proved their origin in Birkenau, Weinheim [Amt], [Heppenheim Kreis], Hesse. See the GCRA book for more. Also spelled Fechlinger and Voellinger. Focht/Voight/Voigt/VogtFN {Michael}: Lutheran, fromUC Leutershausen, in the Barony consisting of lands assigned to the Noble Count von Wiser, in Kurpfalz, arrived at Fridericia, Juetland in Dec 1760. In Dec 1764 with wife (Reformed) and 3 children, he applied for permission to leave Denmark (EEE pp. 630-631). By January 1767 they had settled in Anton FSL #13 which said he was fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz. Spelled Vogt in 1798; see Mai1798:An3, Kk32, Lw34, and St25. Focht/VogtFN{Sebastian}: a single man said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz. Spelled Vogt in 1798 see Mai1798:An13. FochtFN{Simon}: said by the Messer FSL (#14) to be fromUC Brandenburg (no locality mentioned). FochtFN: the Walter FSL does not give a place of origin for this man. The Walter Research Group has identified the family name as Vogt. Focht{Joseph}: KS:82 and 128 say this Catholic man fromUC Renischenz(spelling?) in 1764 and later was sent on to the Saratov area as part of the group of colonists transported under the command of Captain Paykul and Cornet Rehbinder. I have not found them in any published FSL or in Mai1798. FoellerFN: see Veller and Gramm. Foelzing/Voeltzing/Voelsing/Felsing/Feltsing{Jacob/J.Jakob/Jakb.Joh.}: KS128 says he was from UC Kestrich near Alsfeld heading for Paulskoje. KS161 has Voeltzing{Jakb. Joh.} and says his wife is Scharmann{A.Elis.}. On 30 May 1766 he arrived in Russia single said to be from Stolberg (Kulberg480). Later in 1766 with wife {A.Eliesabet} and 4 children he took transport in Oranienbaum for the Volga (T5386-5391). By 7 June 1767 this family had settled at Paulskaya FSL #45 he said to be from Giessen. FoerdererFN: the GCRA found that this family spent time in Glueckstal and proved their origin in Oestringen, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden, using FHL 1,051,489. Frau Foerderer was a Vogelhuber. See the GCRA book for more. FoergesFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip. Foerst{J.David}: from UC Erlang and son of the late {Jacob} of Wilzburg, he married Wieg{Helene K.} on 30 April 1766 in Woehrd (Mai&Marquardt#789). KS128 has Erlangen. I did not find them in any later source. FoersterFN: she is said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to have married Bormann in Oranienbaum, but no origin is given for her. FoersterFN: said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC Galborsht(?), Prussia. FoersterFN: said by the 1798 Norka census to be the maiden name of the wife of Bach (Mai1798:Nr62). Foester{Johanna Netta}: was a godparent at the Luebeck baptism of a son of the Hinkelmann/Schumacher couple on 6 June 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#1354). No record of her discovered so far in Russia. Foerster{Charlotta A.M.}: married Kiesling{J.Sigmund} in Rosslau 4 April 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#887). I did not find them in any published FSL or in Mai1798. FoersterFN: also see Forster. Foffelhof?GL, Wittenberg: said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family. This surely is Pfaffenhofen, Wuerttemberg. FogalFN: the Walter Research Group has confirmed in local parish records that this Vogel family, listed in the Walter FSL as Fogal, came from Gelnhaar, Isenburg (now Hessen). FogelFN: a variant of Vogel. FogelsangGL, Marienburg Amt: said by the Orloff FSL to be homeUC to a Wiensz{Wilhelm} family. Probably better spelled Vogelsang, which is now Bronislawie, Poland, and was some 4 miles NW of Tiegendorff city. Fohr{J.Hermann}: fromUC Ober-Bereitenbach near Alsfeld now in Hesse he married on 19 June 1766 in Buedingen, Guenter{Eliesabetha} (Mai&Marquardt#703). KS128 had {Johan}, Ober- Breidenbach near Alsfeld, and {Elisabeth}. Not found in any later source. Fokht/VogtFN: said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC Hamburg. FolbertFN: was said to be the maiden name of the wife in the original Strack couple of Zuerich (Zr31). Folgard/Foltart {Johannes+w+1c}: said by Kulberg121 to be fromUC Gruenberg. Not found in T. Spelled Foltart and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL (#90) to be fromUC Gruenberg. Possible children are in different colonies in 1798. Bill Pickenhaupt says he found this man’s origin. FolkFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Klinen, Kurpfalz. The Walter Research Project has identified this as a Volk family from Klingen, Rhineland-Palatinate. Folkakh/Volkach?GL: an unidentified place said by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Bernhard family. It might be Volkach, Bavaria, some 13 miles ENE of Wuerzburg. FolmarVV: another spelling for VolmerVV. FolmerVV: another spelling for VolmerVV. FolnisFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be an orphan boy in a Schmidt (fromUC Grossen Buseck) household. I could not find Folnis in the 1798 Volga censuses. Folop?FN: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Konz, Kurtrier. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses. FoltartFN: see Folgart. FoltzFN: see Vajas. Fond 283, file 42: About the dispatch of foreigners, as they desire, to Saratov for settlement under the escort of Sargeant Maklakov, and payment of cash loans to them here, Nol. 25,684 as published by the ASHGR, Lincoln, 1996. Page numbers given refer to pages in the AHSGR publication. A collection of archival documents, mostly dated in 1765, prepared in St. Petersburg by a variety of Russian officials. Fonnershain?[sic]: said by Recruiter Beauregard’s 1768 list (Lk146) to have been homeUC to Schmidt{Nicolaus} [a probable first settlers in Zuerich]. The translators of the Russian in this list were guessing as to the name of the locality, i.e. Fonnershain, Indeed, I could find no such place name; this might well have been Volkersheim. Kuhlberg said he came from Hessen. FoosFN{A.Margeretha}: said by the Dietel FSL (#19a) to be the orphan of Foos{Jacob} living in the W.Brachbacher household. For 1798 see Mai1798:Mr11. Probably the same origin as the next entry. FoosFN{Johann}: said by the Dietel FSL (#29) to be fromUC Heimkehr(?), Hessen. Dona Reeves- Marquardt has found the Foos birth records in Heimkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, confirmed by Brent Mai. For 1790, 1795, and 1798 see :Mv396, Mv422, Dt4, 44, Hs26, Mr12. FoosFN: Using LDS Film 193884 containing the records of Heimkirchen for the first half of the 18th century when that place was under the jurisdiction of the country of Kurpfalz (now Rheinpfalz), Dona Reeves-Marquardt proved the origins of the Foos family of Dietel. In 1720 {J.Jacob} son of Fusz{Wilhelm and Elisabetha} was baptized. In 1749 he married Hohenberger{Catharina E.} fromUC Niederkirchen. For more detail including a transcription of the parish book itself go to http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/origins/f/foos.cfm. This couple arrived in Russia at Oranienbaum in 1766 with six of their children. By 1767 the parents had died while 5 of their children arrived in Dietel (FSL#19a and 29). For family members in 1798 see Mai1798:Dt 4 and 44, Mv396 and 422, Hs26 and Mr11 and 12. FoosFN{Johann}: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Ambap(?), Wittenberg. Later spelled Foss (Mai1798:Db15). FoosFN: also see Fouche. Forbach/Vorbach: interfiled in the following Forbach {Anna}: a single woman who arrived in Russia 8 August 1766 said to be from Hanau [County] (Kuhlberg3254). Forbach?/VorbachFN{Friedrich}: said by Kuhlberg5002 and the Kutter FSL #76 to be fromUC Hanau [County]. He arrived in Russia single on 9 Aug 1766 and by the time he settled at Kutter FSL #76 on 16 Aug 1767 he had a wife older than he, 3 teenage childen who must have be step- children the children of the wife and a previous marriage, plus one infant who must have been by him and his new wife. By 1798 he was living in Beideck with a new wife with no known trace of the chidren listed in 1767 (Mai1798: Bd76). Vorbach{Peter}: fromUC Litzel, Biber [Barony?] his daughter (name not recorded) was baptized in Friedberg 27 June 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#1365). Not found in any later source, Forbach [Kreis]GL, Elsass-Lothringen: is 4.5 miles SW of Saarbruecken city, and was a District administrative center. Forchheim, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is some 3 miles NE of Dobenreuth town and 14 miles SSE of Bamberg city, and said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Betz family. ForchtenbergGL, Oehringen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is 6 miles NNE of Oehringen city, and has been proven by the GCRA, using FHL(1,340,210), to be the place Braun left in 1821 to go to Bergdorf, and to be the place Romig left to go to Glueckstal.