My great grandparents were Hans/Johannes Egler( Heinrich Egler and Anna Dumrauf's son) and Katherine Redel( Michael Redel and Margaretha Sauer's daugther).
They were of those germans who lived in Russia all together in colonies with their own languaje, customs... culture since Katharine The Great had invited them to colonize somes zones-specially Wolga River edges- in 1764. But then the first times, all changed (their privileges were interrupted) and finally when comunism wanted to take those germans' Christianity away, they started to migrates to America
(nevertheless, many of them came before): Canada, USA, Brazil, Argentina.
My great grandfather (John Egler) was also obligated to Zar army service
Actually we are in Argentina, and descendats of germans from russia are about 900000, living in different provinces.
Was your EGLER FAMILY FROM RUSSIA?
Im looking for info about my ancestry.