Fig. 4: Two migratory paths

1. The first group includes families who moved to Poland at the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century to then Austrian or Prussian regions.
   In 1814, members of these families moved on from these areas, now called the Duchy of Warsaw, to Bessarabia, which had been conquered by Russia in 1812. These ancestors took family members from local communities in Poland and with them on the migration.
2. The second group moved from their original homeland of Alsace and Baden between 1803 and 1830 to the Odessa region, which was then part of Russia. From there, individual family members went to Bessarabia around 1840.

Both groups eventually ended up in Krasna, a village founded in 1814 by German colonists on the Black Sea in the governorate of Bessarabia, now Ukraine. The Russian Empire had received this territory from the Ottoman Empire in 1812 at the Peace of Bucharest.

For some Krasna families origin and emigration destination can be traced in Poland (see following tables, graphs):

1. Saar Palatine families, whose emigration to Galicia in the Zamość area and onward migration to Russia is documented, originate from the Saarbrücken area and the Palatinate).
2. Families from the Principality of Nassau who moved to the estates of Wilhelm Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Orania to South Prussia come from the Westerwald/Taunus area.
3. Families who went to New East Prussia come from Alsace and Mecklenburg.
4. For the families with names clearly of Polish origin, one can assume Polish regions that temporarily belonged to Prussia and Austria. However, many of the Polish surnames occurring in Krasna are very widespread (similar, for example, to Becker, Müller in Germany). Therefore it has not been possible to assign the correct ones yet.

On the other hand, for many families origin in Germany and emigration destination in Poland have not been found yet. Further research in archives, church records and other old documents is needed to (maybe?) find clarity about more families.

Families who moved to Krasna from the colonies in the Odessa region in the 1840s according to the 1850 Census come from Baden, the Palatinate and Alsace.