Ancestors of Harvey Harold Nusz, son of Harvey Benjamin Nusz and Ida Helen Backhus, born 1947 in Kingsville, Kleberg, Texas. The emigrant ancestor of the Nuss/Nusz family is Johannes C. Nusz (1838-1909), who was born in Dongolonoka, Russia. He died near Woodbine, Kansas. He married Susana Ehrlick (1839-1927) in 1859. She was born in Shaferkofka, Russia. They came to America in 1876, and lived first in Marion County, Kansas and in 1877 moved to a farm...

Daniel Deines (b. ca. 1760) was probably the Deines individual who emigrated from Germany to Kratzke (along the Volga River, now called Potschinnaja), Russia. Johann Jakob (John Jacob) Deines (b. 1817), his son, emigrated in 1876 from Russia to New York City, and settled in Lawrence, Kansas. Relatives immigrated later (until about 1905). Descendants lived throughout most of the United States, though chiefly in the midwest. Some relatives (from Russia)...

Christoph Ehrlich (1746-1798) was born in Germany. He married Anna Margaretha Braun (1752-1832) in about 1775 in Shcherbakovka, Saratov, Russia. They had six children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Russia, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

Johann Georg Deines was born in Germany in about 1721. He immigrated to Russia in 1766 and settled in Dönhof. He married Barbara Elisabeth and they had six children. Their grandson, Johann Jakob Deines (1817-1893), immigrated to the United States in 1876. Descendants and relatives have spread all across the United States.

The Wideners appear to have been German Baptists and Lutherans and were no doubt persecuted in the fatherland as many of the followers of Luther were 26. The emigration to this country appears to have commenced about 1730, when Penn's Colony was made a retreat for religious toleration. Weidners have continued to emigrate to the present time. The old families whose descendants appear hereafter came at or about the same time, landed at Philadelphia...