This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CI.2ADEB/8829.2 Message Board Post: I too have a John Adams b.9/5/1839 from Germany, Bavaria), who arrived in US before US Civil War. I have all family since, but cannot go further back. We should start a German Adams link and have all of us who have to sort thru millions of English and Irish Adams' put our data together.