This genealogy book chronicles both the local history along with the Weber Family challenges and hardships as they leave Germany to become among the first settlers of the Volga German - Russian community in Messer, Russia. The Families one hundred and forty year stay in Russia is detailed before they are provoked into immigrating to Kansas and Oklahoma just before WWI. Many family stories are presented which brings the Weber story to life.Between the linen hardback-Gold Foil covers with 307 8-1/2"x11" high quality, acid free pages (140 color pages) is the most complete Weber Family History containing about 2,000 named descendants, Photos, Maps, Family Stories, Newspapers, and Church / Government records. For example: Family members of both the Weber and Weigand Families traced back to the 1720's in Germany, 197 Photos (some back to the 1800's & many in color), photos of the ships they immigrated on, plus 9 location maps.Three hundred and Forty-two Surnames are contained in the Weber Family descendant list. Surnames most listed: Bekker, Crawford, Davis, Geis, Hadwiger, Haskins, Krause, Laufer, Lorenz, McDaniel, Meisinger, Meyer, Patzkowsky, Schram, Smith, Weber, Weigand, and Worthington 2015 is the 250th anniversary of Empress Catherine II of Russia inviting citizens of central Europe City States (now Germany) to move to Russia with all expenses paid, no taxes, no military draft, free land, free start-up money/equipment plus they could keep their culture and religion if they would promise to be Farmers. About three years ago the Authors along with several dozen Family members set out to commemorate this event with a book that would bring together our Wonderful Family Story of Challenges, Hardships and Accomplishments.With the ending of the Cold War, our early Family History can now be traced with the Russian documents being made available and translated into English.Comments from readers include: Fantastic! A treasure that the family can cherish for generations. An excellent job of preserving our family history for future generations.