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The Ships and the Journey to the New World
Nine Oberdorf families have been found in the Hamburg Passenger Lists traveling to South America in 1892. The earliest documented emigration from Oberdorf was in December 1886 per the History and Geography Dictionary of Saratov Province by A.N. Minkh. One of the first emigrants from Oberdorf was Friedrich Kerbs, who arrived at the Port of Baltimore on 12 Feb 1887 on the ship Hermann. The dates would support the exit process commencing in 1886 and finalizing with the arrival in Baltimore in early 1887. Friedrich Kerbs' Naturalization Records confirm his entry in 1887 and his place of birth as Oberdorf. Georg Kerbs, possibly a brother of Friedrich Kerbs, has been verified as Oberdorf-born per a passport issued in 1903. The Johann (Johann Jacob) Kuxhaus family has also been verified as Oberdorf-born. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Hergert (b abt 1861) and sons Heinrich Kuxhaus (b abt 1884) and Jacob Kuxhaus (b abt 1886) were identified through genealogy reports submitted by Oberdorf researchers and the 1900 Oklahoma census. The Georg Rusch family has been identified by one of our Rusch researchers. The manifest lists Georg and his wife Catharina Hergert Rusch. Georg Rusch was also known as Georg Heinrich and John Henry Rusch. Catharina was the sister of Mary Elizabeth Hergert Kuxhaus above. After the death of Catharina, John Henry Rusch married Mary Elizabeth Hergert Kuxhaus, whose husband Johann Jacob Kuxhaus had also passed away. Family histories and census records were used to identify this family on the manifest. Friedrich Rusch listed on the manifest is most likely related to the other Rusch family, since he was traveling with them. There were several other families on the manifest that could have been from Oberdorf. Surnames of other possible Oberdorf families on the manifest are Weigand, Kerbs (a third Kerbs), Fritzler, Koch, Zwetzig (probably from Erlenbach), Muth and Becker. The Oberdorf people on this manifest first went to Kansas, and from there, the verified ones resettled in Oklahoma and Colorado. Some may have stayed in Kansas. Click on the thumbnail images below to view full sized portions of the Hermann manifest. Please note that some families are continued on the next manifest page.
If you can link any of these families conclusively to Oberdorf, please contact the Oberdorf Village Coordinator. Ship Manifest ExtractionsThe ports linked on the left contain ship manifest extracts of emigrants from Oberdorf. Oberdorf Immigrant Ship
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Passage from Oberdorf to the
Americas took various routes. Some of the Oberdorf emigrants left the Volga region by rail to the port of Libau on the Baltic Sea. From there, it is assumed they sailed to the eastern English port of Grimsby, and then by rail on the Great Central Railway to Liverpool.
From Liverpool they sailed to North America. Many came through Bremen, Hamburg, or other ports
on their journey to
North and South American ports. F. Missler was a steamship agent in Bremen that issued
tickets and coordinated land and sea travel for many of our ancestors.
