Dear Sir or Madamn

My name is Chriss William Rusch from Colorado,USA, i thank you for allowing me to be come a member!

I copied you below on a previous email/blog i sent today and wanted to see if you know of a town in Osterreich named Tag or Tab? It would of been in approx year of 1765

Danke Shurn!
Chriss

I noticed your post and wanted to write you and also copy you on the email i posted previously today. As my email below says i have DNA and i noticed the i share some DNA with The Kastner surname and was wondering if we might have some connection?! Please see me email below with my kit and account numbers.

Sincerely,
Chriss William Rusch


We recently discovered our oldest ancestor was Ludwig Rauch b 1716. He and his wife Anna immigrated to Dobrinka,Saratov,Russia in 1765. We had always thought we were from German descent but the Russia immigration records say that Ludwig was from Tag or Tab ,Osterreich. I can not find any towns in Osterreich with that name and thought it may be a translation Russian-German-English mistake? I have not been able to find any Osterreich maps from the 1700's so i have no way of knowing if either Tag or Tab were actually towns?

I am VERY enthusiastic about our family ancestry and we are looking to find any possible Rauch relatives we might have in Osterreich now.

I have DNA for comparison FamilyTreeDNA My kit # is 396049 I am also a member of Ysearch.org kit # HRZDX GEDmatch.com Kit # F396049 Ancestry.com member # chriss3800

I hope all is well with you and your family and hope to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,
Chriss William Rusch email chriss3800@hotmail.com

Dear Chriss,

thanks for your interesting story!

Where did you find the information about "Tab" or "Tag"? Please send us the link or upload the document. Perhaps we as a community have more ideas about the place you are looking for!

Zita

Hello Chriss,

try that link: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~gazetteer


>Database
>Town finder

enter the name of the town you search for.


LeoTab.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

That little town named Tab (hung.) in Hungary had the German name "Tabau"

So possible relatives maybe in Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab,_Hungary
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(Ungarn)h
ttps://www.google.at/maps/place/Tab,+Ung...400c4290c1e1e20
Church in Tab, Hungary: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/38683689

Volga, Old South Russia Map: http://www.rollintl.com/roll/volga.htm

Guten Morgen Zita!

How are you today?!! How is Austrian weather this time of year?! Are you a skier?! I would like to 'Thank You' for review and offer to help with our Opa Ludwig! I have attached 2 documents that i hope may be of help but not sure?! Anyhow......VIELEN DANK!!!

Kind regards,
Chriss Colorado,USA C 720 369 0559

Leo!!!

Wow!! Thank You SO MUCH!! How are you today?! Do you live in Austria?! I am in Colorado,USA where it is Winter! Can't wait for Spring!!! heehe

Thank You Again!
Sincerely,
Chriss C 720 369 0559

Gutten Tag Martin!

I would like to THANK YOU for your help and all the information!! Wow! I will be sure to research the sources. Where do you live in Austria?! I am in Colorado as you know! We probably do not have the skiing you do in Austria but they say it is good here! I am not a skier but most all my friends are! Do you ski?!

I REALLY like and appreciate you last statement about being German! Although we are not as close connected to you as being GERMAN/AUSTRIAN,i feel the same pride and SPIRIT as both my Opa und Oma Alexander & Molly (Germans from Russia) and my Vater Will instilled in our family!

Sincerely,Chriss C 720 369 0559

Hello Chriss,

I think we could help you more if you give us more Details about Ludwig Rauch.

When did Ludwig arrive in the states?

Have you got Ludwig´s entry in the passenger lists? Does a naturalisation act exist?

Leo
from Vienna/Austria (we have also winter time, actually we hold 52 F)

Sorry, correction for the Tab Links above.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(Ungarn) <- copy into Link adress bar!
https://www.google.at/maps/place/Tab,+Un...400c4290c1e1e20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somogy_County
Old map: https://dea.lib.unideb.hu/dea/bitstream/...e=1&isAllowed=y
HUNGARIAN VILLAGE FINDER, ATLAS, and GAZETTEER for the KINGDOM of HUNGARY -> Somogy County - Megye - Varmegye
https://www.hungarianvillagefinder.com/H.../42_SOMOGY.html
Hungary Genealogical Records: http://forebears.io/hungary

Gutten Tag Landsmann!

Leo! I sure appreciate your help! Hope all is well for you today in Vienna! Weather has been sunny and nice for 4-5 days in Littleton now,sounds like we have the similar climate now.

I did some research last night and i think that we have the connection we are looking for! I want to THANK YOU so much for your help! I need to confirm more details but
feel we are on the correct path now!

Please see the email BELOW i sent to my family and the 4 page attachment! Sincerely,Chriss
Hi Everyone!

I think we have our ancestral roots! I just had to share this with you! It will take more research to confirm though!

As you remember we now have CONFIRMATION Ludwig Rauch b 1716 is our oldest known relative
When he and his wife Anna immigrated to Dobrinka,Russia they were required to register at one of the immigration
ports in Russia. They gave the city that they came from as Tab,Austria


FYI-
We joined an Austrian website FORUM where i asked if anyone knew of a Tab,Austria......
Numerous Austrian people referred us to Tab,Hungary as a possible city
In the 1700's Austria-Hungary was a joint empire

Searching and searching and searching here is what i have lucked out and found on records of Germans immigrating to HUNGARY-

See attached 2 pages which shows (4) Rauch Family's from Bleichenbach,Germany who immigrated to Tolna,Hungary
in 1722
Please see MAPS
I believe our LUDWIG RAUCH was the son of one of the Rauch Family's who immigrated to Tolga.
I believe he immigrated back to Germany..........then he and Anna immigrated to Dobrinka,Russia
Please note that ALL Rauch first names in the Tolga,Hungary Rauch Family's where handed down in our Rauch Family in Russia!

Anyhow.............Still need to do more research and also i have HI-HOPES to find a RUACH DNA connection with my DNA
and we are veryyyyyyyyyyyy close on that too!

Love You ALL!
Dad,Granpa,Chriss

Hi Again Everyone!

I wanted to update the post i sent last week and add some information.

When Ludwig Rauch b cerca 1716 and his wife Anna immigrated to Dobrinka,Russia in the Volga region in 1765 we were Lutheran's. Ludwig,Anna and 80 other German families and several Finnish were original settlers in the first German colony in the region. It was formed as a Lutheran colony.

When Ludwig's father Johann Georg Rauch b 1662 and his mother Anna Katharina immigrated to Keszohidegkut,Tolna,Hungary in 1722 they may have been Catholic,we are not sure. History shows that King Habsburg invited mostly Catholic and some Lutheran's to settle in the region from 1721 to 1776. We are still searching for more information about our family in Hungary. If
you have any additional information or websites where we can check,please let me know.

Please note that Keszohidegkut,Tolna,Hungary is only about 20 miles from Tab,Somogy,Hungary where Ludwig recorded that he came from (Thank You again for this information)

Here are the links for reference and they may be of some help to others

http://www.hrastovac.net/historical/Hess...igrants-R-Z.htm
http://feefhs.org/links/banat/bhistory.html
http://www.blackseagr.org/learn_hungary.html

Again,I THANK YOU ALL for so much help! And CARINTHIANGIRL for your referral to the researcher in Hungary! I emailed him last night.

If you have any additional information please let me know! I will do the same!

Kind Regards, Chriss

Frohe Weihnachten an alle!
Ich hoffe, Sie genießen Sie Ihre Zeit mit Familie und engen Freunden!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Chriss