UPDATE ON THE FRICK LINEAGE OF HUCK

Richard G. Reider

Department of Geography

University of Wyoming

Laramie, Wyoming 82071‑3371

In Adam Kindsvater's history of the Frick family of Huck (Die Huckere, vol. 2, no. 3, September 1997), I proposed a lineage in the annotations from Johann Konrad, the original Frick in Huck, to my maternal grandfather Conrad and my mother. However, the lineage has changed as a result of a search on the Fricks by the Russian-American Genealogical Archival Service (RAGAS) completed in June 1997. The RAGAS search used church records and one census report obtained in the archives at Saratov and Engels. The correct lineage, based on these documents, is shown on the accompanying chart. The chart is also based on information obtained by Adam in Germany and from information in the 1775/1798 censuses of Huck published by AHSGR. It shows the lineage from 1767 to 1850. I have commissioned RAGAS to continue the search after 1850.

Thus, my Frick lineage and that of Adam stems from Oswald Frick (b. 1826), the son of a heretofore-unknown Johann Oswald Frick (b. 1805), in turn a son of Lorenz (b. 1774) who was the son of Johann Konrad (b. 1739). The wives and children of the elders are also given on the chart. Melva Jean Shults stems from Konrad (b. 1834), brother to Oswald (b. 1826).

It appears that Fricks in Kansas trace back to Georg Frick (b. 1807), a son of Johannes (b. ~1775) and grandson of Johann Konrad (b. 1739). The children of Georg Frick would therefore be second cousins to my great-grandfather Oswald.

November 9, 1997

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