I think this is fairly common because it is a large enough area that people may have heard of it...    The same thing happened in my family and my folks were from Appenweier and Rottingen so I think they picked the closest big town I live in St. Louis unincorporated County but the closest known place is Fenton so I often say I live in Fenton (we do have a Fenton post office address) so I wonder if our ancestors did similar things.... >________________________________ > From: "RValois368@aol.com" <RValois368@aol.com> >To: baden-wurttemberg@rootsweb.com >Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:11 PM >Subject: Re: [BW] Bower > > >Funny this story about our ancestors emigrating from  "Baden-Baden". My >grandfather told me that too. But they came from Rastatt,  Baden, about 15 >miles away, never were they from Baden-Baden. > >Robert A. Valois  > > >In a message dated 2/16/2014 3:13:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  >erlast@t-online.de writes: > >Search  for  B a u e r  not Bower. Bauer is  german. > >Erika > > > > >-----Ursprüngliche  Nachricht----- >Von:  baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:baden-wurttemberg-bounces@rootsweb.com]  Im Auftrag von Norma Beil >Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Februar 2014 20:23 >An:  BADEN-WURTTEMBERG@rootsweb.com >Betreff: [BW] Bower > >Does anyone have  a connection with Benedick or Benedict Bower born 1783 >and who emigrated  from Baden Baden Germany with his family in 1833 to >the USA? His wife's  name was Elizabeth Kell and the children were >Joseph,  Helen, Thomas,  Genevieve, and Teresa.  I believe Benedick's >parents were Josephi  Bower and Mariea Eggs. >Norma > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list,  please send an email to >BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the  word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from  the list, please send an email to >BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with  the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the >subject and the body of the  message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >