Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Ochs Family Genealogy Forum Calling all Ochs--Please help! Posted by: Laura ochs (ID *****4069) Date: January 05, 2004 at 15:01:13   of 376 hey everybody! i just started uncovering a bit of my Ochs history, but no one in my family can answer this one question. you see, my great great grandfather, Konrad Ochs, was born in Schoenfeld, Russia in 1847. i've always been told that i'm German to the core. i know "Ochs" is a German name, but i can't figure out why sooo many German people were living in that part of Russia in the 1800's. cheap land prices? good farming? a nice view of the kremlin? what's the deal? i'm German, but none of my ancestors were born in Germany, and what's more, they never even lived in Germany for any extended period of time. if anyone can explain, i could sure use the help thanks! laura Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Calling all Ochs--Please help! Harlin Ochs 3/14/07 Re: Calling all Ochs--Please help! wanda cumbie 9/20/05 Re: Germans in Russia Ted Pack 2/13/04 Happy to have so many relatives in US, Australia and elsewhere! Michael Ochs 12/17/05 Re: Happy to have so many relatives in US, Australia and elsewhere! roberta ochs 11/07/06 Re: Calling all Ochs--Please help! Melody Mehta 2/09/04 http://genforum.genealogy.com/ochs/messages/288.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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