This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJF.2ACEB/94.3.1 Message Board Post: I dont know if this is a connection or not, but I have traced my ancestors so far to Hoerdt, Bas Rhine, France. One of my ancestors,Phillipe Raeppel married Anne Marie Bossert who had a son Francois Xavier Raeppel who married Marie Anne Friedrich on March 30, 1831. Do you think this may be a connection?