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John Schmidt (d.ca.1912) married Magdalena Kopfenstein. They lived in Petersthal, Russia, and were Mennonite descendants of German immigrants to Russia. They immigrated about 1885 to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and settled the Ebenezer area near there in 1889. Descendants and relatives lived in Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Washington, Oregon and elsewhere in the United States.
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The definitive guide to the 5,000 most common surnames in the United States. With origins, variations, rankings, prominent bearers and published genealogies.
These two volumes continue the work of documenting all 2.3 million immigrants from the Russian Empire who arrived in the United States between 1871 & 1910. Several nationalities or ethnic groups were represented in this migration-Poles, Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Jews, Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, & Germans (the socalled Volga Germans). These ethnic Russians emigrated in far greater numbers than indigenous Russians, as reflected in the fact that of the 1.7 million Russian emigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1899 & 1910, 43 percent were Jews, 27 percent Poles, 9 percent Lithuanians, 8 percent Finns, 5 percent Germans, & 4 percent indigenous Russians. The first four volumes o...
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