In a message dated 6/27/02 8:16:28 AM, janethursby@mindspring.com writes: << My husband's mother is an Appel. Have we connected up before? I have Appel information back to Germany for his family. >> Hi Jane: Thanks for responding to the Appel name on the message board. I could not find where we had exchanged information before. My connection to that name has not been established and I have found very little help. Here is where the name appears in my Mauler/Mahler line. It is the Naturalization papers for Herman Mahler where Henry Appel & Valentine Hase (Hax?) were witnesses, so they certainly must have known the Mauler family. Then there is a John Appel on the 1860 Baltimore census who was born about the same time as Herman Mahler. If you think there would be any connection to your Appel family, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Pauline Copy of Naturalization: MD Naturalization Abstracts Vol 1 Balto County and Balto City 1784-1851 (pg 249) Herman Mahler Grand Dutchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. NATN. Decl. intent in US Dist Ct 12 Oct 1846. Wits: Henry Appel & Valentine Hase (Hax?). O & RA to the Grand Duchess of Hessen Darmstadt, BC Ct. (Nat. Rc’d) 9 1845-1848 MSA C229-1 MDHR f. 714 28 Oct 1848 1850 Balto City Census 029 15th W Herman Mahler 25 Born Germ Ropemaker Margaret 26 Born Germ 1860 Baltimore ward 1 census pg 50 (John Apple 32 tailor from Germ--Mary 28 and Charles 3) ***********