Ships

First Ships
The first Volga ancestors started coming to America in 1874. Here you will find a list of many (nearly 40) of the first ships that carried our Volga German ancestors. This information was gathered from members of the German Volga mail list.

Ship Lists

There are many excellent sources of ship list on the internet. Here you will find ship list indexes for the Villages of Balzer, Brunnental, Dietel, Frank, Hussenbach, Kolb, Norka, Saratov, Walter, Warrenburg and Yagodnaya Polyana. Also there is a German Russian index for the port of Baltimore, 1897-1918, surnames Wahl - Wunsch.

St. Albans Border Crossing Records

St. Albans border crossing records are records of immigrants traveling from Canada into the USA. Here you will find German Russian surname indexes for a small but growing list of surnames.