Merry Christmas All, I am looking for the birthplace of Christopher Rager who according to Obituaries and most census records was born in Bavaria. One census record however lists him as coming from Baden. He was born in Apr. 1824 and emigrated to the US in 1850 where he worked at his butcher trade in Chicago until 1858 when he moved to what is now Oceana County, MI. His death record shows his mother to be Anna Brinie and his father Conrad. His sisters Obituary however shows the fathers name as John. At the time of his death in 1897 he was survived by a brother John in Sweden, a sister in Germany and a sister Magdalenna in Oceana Co., MI. The German white pages show at least 44 Ragers in the area around Bisingen, which is east of Munich, with very few in any other area in Germany. Does anyone have a contact in that area?? His family in Michigan was Catholic, but I don't know if he was raised Catholic. So far I have not found any LDS records from Bisingen. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Art Grumm, Montague, MI