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My father, Richard E. Heinz (1921-2002), traced his branch of the Heinz family back to the 1666 birth of George Wilhelm Heinz, son of Christoph Heinz (initially spelled Heintz). (Christoph's birth year is estimated at 1645.)
My father's records include information on the migration of German families to the Volga River Basin following the 1762 decree of the Empress of Russia, german-born Catherine (II) the Great. That decree authorized colonization of the Volga River Basin in Russia.
With regard to the Heinz migration to Russia, let's start with Johann Nicolaus Heinz, born in Schierstein, Hesse Provence, Germany in 1713. Johann Nicolaus, his wife Maria Katherine (Scherer), and their son (and ninth child) Gottfried Bernard migrated to Russia from Worms, Rhineland, Germany. From Worms, they traveled by train to Orostock on the East Sea (Ost See), then by sea to Lenengrad-Petersberg. From there they were escorted by the Russian Army to Twer, then on to Pensa and to the Saratov Provence on the Volga, where each married family was given 15 rubles per family member, two horses, one cow, and 46 acres of land in one the colonies along the river. My decendents settled near Straub (later to become Saumorja and thereafter Bangert), in Parlikschen County, Russia, where the Heinz families lived for 118 years.
Gottfried Bernard Heinz's son Heinrich August was born in Saumorja (Bangert), Russia in 1796. The following children of Heinrich August and Eva Katharina Klemm were also born in Russia:
Johann Wilhelm (born 1814),
Heinrich Michael (born 1816),
Elisa Katharina (born 1818),
Maria Katharina (born 1820),
Georg Andrews (born 1822),
Anna Margaretha (born 1823 - died in infancy),
Johann Christian (born 1825 - died in infancy),
Johann Conrad (born 1826),
another Johann Christian (born 1828),
Johannes (born 1829),
Johann Heinrich (born 1831),
another Anna Margaretha (born 1833), and
Heinrich Johann (born 1836).
Eva Katharina died in 1837; Heinrich August married Anna Horch (nee Hoffman) in 1838 and they had another child, Georg Friedrich, born 1839. Anna died in 1851, and Heinrich married Maria Magdonina Schmidt (nee Wekesser) in 1852.
From there, my father's paternal line traces from Heinrich Johann (1836), through his second son, Johann Heinrich (born 1857)
In 1883 Heinrich Johann, his sons Johann Heinrich (my great grandfather) and Johann Christian, and nephew Jacob, along with their families, left Bangert for America. They left Hamburg, Germany aboard the ship Rhaetta and arrived in New York on July 28, 1884. From there they traveled to Sutton, Nebraska, arriving August 2, 1884.
It gets more confusing for me from there on, since my other great grandfather on my father's side (i.e., my father's grandfather on his mother's side) was the third child of Heinrich Johann (Christian, born in Bangert, 1866).
I'll stop here, since I have no idea where your branch of the family might have originated, and there's too much information to go on in this format. I'm hoping you and your relatives might recognize someone from the above lists.
If you'd like to follow up, I might be able to give you some resources to start with. Good luck!
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