Rebecca Snow Hi, The story about the Bonstein brothers has been put together from records that have been written by others. It is known that they are the only recorded brothers who at the end, one stayed in the USA and the other went home to Germany. I have the family documented from 1640 to present. for both the German born and American born families. Start here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/history/bon1.htm you can then go to the history of the Bonsteins here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/history/bon1a.htm If you go to my website and read you can see the interesting information about what they went through. I'm sure you will enjoy it I also have Revolutionary ancestors who fought on the side of the Colonies. Nelda Nelda's websites - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives _________________________________________________________________ Laugh, share and connect with Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline