I am looking for more information about this WEGNER family from Poland/Russia. This passenger list excerpt includes the family members that my Great-Grandfather Ferdinand WEGNER immigrated to the USA with. On his naturalization papers, Ferdinand WEGNER indicated that he was born in Posen.

Rhein passenger list, Bremen to Baltimore - 29 Mar 1890:

Wegner, Friedrich - age 38, male, farmer
Wegner, Louise - age 36, female, wife
Unknown/unreadable name - age 14, female
Wegner, Louise - age 12, female
Wegner, Ernestine - age 7, female
Wegner, Ottilie - age 6, female
Wegner, Emilie - age 4, female
Wegner, Stefan - age 2, male
Wegner, Ferdinand - age 9 mos., male
Wegner, Wilhelm - age 32, male, farmer (Wilhelm died 11MAR1901 in Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas.)
Wegner, Susanna - age 27, female, wife
Wegner, Reinhard - age 5, male
Wegner, Olga - age 3, female
Wegner, Richard - age 11 mos., male
Wegner, Ferdinand - age 18, male, laborer (Ferdinand WEGNER married Maria Stahlheber in Halstead, Harvey County, Kansas, on 01OCT1891; then moved to Day County, South Dakota.)
Wegner, Regina - age 19, female, servant
(Regina WEGNER was probably Ferdinand's sister, according to my aunt. She later married Gus Maeirt in McPherson County, Kansas. Later moved to Blaine County, Montana.)
Meyer, Gustav - age 18, male, laborer (Maeirt)
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I recently searched the Odessa website at http://www.odessa3.org/re-cgi-bin/esearch (the St. Petersburg records) and I found the following record that connects this family to Volhynia, Russia:

File: 3,342,274 Volhynian Births, 1880-85 (M. Momose)
Last, First Name: WEGNER, Reinhold
D/M Year: 14 Sep 1884
Father: Wilhelm
Mother: Backer, Susanna
Film/Item Pg R Nr: 1897691/6 61 669
Place: Blumental (Dermanka)