Origin & Ancestors Familes Karle & Kaiser of the German-Russian Volga Colonies

Join me in this book as I stumble my way across das Mutterland to learn all I can about my maternal and paternal surnames Karle & Kaiser and my other forty-five ancestral surnames (Adolf Andreas Arp Arnst Becker Bopp Burbach Dagenheim Foht Freund Geringer Grun Hart Heiland Hermann Hess Heylmann Hieronymus Horn Ikstadt Kohler Kramer Lieders Maurer Michel Neumann Nicolausen Nillmayer Popp Roth Rudolph Schaeffer Scherer Schiller Schmiedt Schneider Schutz Simon Steitz Trieber Trippel Vogt Werner Will Zeichmann). Read how the Black Death and the 30 Years and 7 Years Wars plagued them. Learn of the Catherine the Great Scam and its effect on the Volga Germans. Share their fear as the Russians close in. Travel with them to their new homeland in the Americas. Traces the origins of Karle & Kaiser from about 50000BC. Covers DNA trackingpre-German historyreligionthe Volga life and villagesand escape to the Americas. Over 560 pages200 pictures80 maps.