Where did Carl Schochenmaier want to go?

I hope you remember that we have found out that only one Carl Schochenmaier could match the requirements to be the Carl Schochenmaier whose son Christian Schochenmaier had been baptized in 1844 in the South Russia: I mean Carl Heinrich Cornelius (1798). He is son of Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1759-1834), the hatter from Ludwigsburg. His birth year could fit to the births of the first Schochenmaiers generation in the Russian Empire: August (1825), Gottlieb (abt. 1828), Ludwig (abt. 1830) and already above-mentioned Christian (1837). Everything we have of him, it's the family table of his parents with comments on every son and daughter. It's interesting to note that there is a comment about Carl but I could NOT decipher it (in blue).

After I asked on Facebook (in the group of the old German writings), they gave me answer during a couple of minutes.

Are you ready??? 

He emigrated to CAUCASIEN!!! 

That's amazing! Because it could be the answer to all our research. You are going to ask me where "Caucasien" and you are absolutely right it has a bit to do with Caucasus. Nevertheless, it's the same direction - the South Russia!!! I am pretty sure that now we found out the missing link between the actual Schochenmaier's family tree and the historic one!!! I am really impressed)))

The Schochenmaiers Reunion in Saint-Petersburg

I'd like to share with all of you the news on a great meeting I had last week. During my trip to Russia, I've planed to visit the former capital of the Russian Empire and I met our remote relative Natasha Schochenmaier from Saint-Petersburg.

As you know, according to her origin, she is much more closer to the American-Canadian Schochenmaiers than to ours. Let me explain how we are related.


Natasha's great great grandfather was Christian Schochenmaier (1866-1934), brother of Michael (1859-1937) and Jacob (1861-1923) who had left for the New World in 1880s. It seems to be that he was only 20 years old when his brothers emigrated, he stayed with his farther and got his farm.

As well as other Russianb Schochenmaiers, his son Heinrich Schochenmaier (1905-1975), grandfather of Natasha, fled to the West from the Soviet Army but he got stuck in Poland and was deported to the Soviet North, settlement of Syktyvkar, where was very cold and snowy.  His son Harry Schochenmaier (1937-2018) as well as grandchildren Eugen (1963) and Natasha were born there.

It means that our branches of the Schochenmaiers hadn't seen each other since 1946 (because the ours had been deported either to the South of Ural or to Kazakhstan, so just opposite direction)!!! And now we met ! That was great! I am so thankful to Natasha for such a wonderful time we had together, Her son Nikita Schochenmaier (1995) joined us in order to find out more about our history and origin.